{"id":772,"date":"2025-07-16T00:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/trump-announces-billions-in-investments-to-make-pennsylvania-an-ai-hub\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T00:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T20:46:41","slug":"trump-announces-billions-in-investments-to-make-pennsylvania-an-ai-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/trump-announces-billions-in-investments-to-make-pennsylvania-an-ai-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces billions in investments to make Pennsylvania an AI hub"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

\"\"

\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump announced more than $90 billion in investments from private companies that they said are tied to AI, tech, and energy during the \u201cinaugural\u201d Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Pennsylvania is a leading gas-producing state<\/a> and an epicenter of the <\/a>US fracking boom<\/a>; some<\/span> of the largest investments linked to the initiative were from energy companies, including \u201ca $25 billion investment in data center and energy infrastructure development in Northeast Pennsylvania\u201d from Blackstone, and $15 billion in expansions announced by First Energy. <\/p>\n

Trump repeated calls to \u201cdrill, baby, drill\u201d during the event, and some gas companies were included on a fact sheet<\/a> from Senator Dave McCormick listing the announcements. Enbridge plans to invest $1 billion to expand its gas pipelines \u201cinto Pennsylvania,\u201d Equinor is investing $1.6 billion to \u201cboost natural gas production at Equinor\u2019s Pennsylvania facilities and explore opportunities to link gas to flexible power generation for data centers,\u201d and Capital Power said it\u2019s spending $3 billion over 10 years on an upgraded gas facility in the state.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s president and chief investment officer, Ruth Porat, announced <\/a>that the company plans to invest $25 billion to build data centers and AI infrastructure over the next two years across the PJM region<\/a>, which includes 13 states and Washington, D.C., along with a 20-year, $3 billion US hydropower deal with Brookfield Energy.<\/p>\n

Cloud computing company CoreWeave announced plans<\/a> to invest $6 billion in a data center \u201cto power the most cutting-edge AI use cases\u201d in Pennsylvania. Anthropic will commit $1 million over three years to support a program that provides cybersecurity education and an additional $1 million over three years to \u201csupport energy research at Carnegie Mellon University.\u201d <\/p>\n

Meta announced a $2.5 million partnership to \u201csupport startups in rural Pennsylvania communities in addition to community accelerator training for small businesses,\u201d while AWS CEO Matt Garman was also at the event<\/a>, with Amazon pointing toward previously announced<\/a> \u201cplans to invest $20 billion in Pennsylvania to expand cloud computing infrastructure and advance AI innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Update, July 15th<\/strong>: Added details about several other companies, including Google and AWS.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump announced more than $90 billion in investments from private companies that they said are tied to AI, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}