Trump announces billions in investments to make Pennsylvania an AI hub

President Donald Trump helped denote much than $90 cardinal successful investments successful AI and vigor astatine an lawsuit successful Pennsylvania connected Tuesday.

Among those investments see immoderate multi-billion dollar commitments from Google. The institution is readying to put $25 cardinal to physique information centers and AI infrastructure for the electrical grid successful the PJM region, according to remarks from president and main concern serviceman Ruth Porat. It is besides announcing a $3 cardinal US hydropower woody with Brookfield Energy.

CoreWeave, a unreality computing company, announced plans to put much than $6 cardinal to physique a caller information halfway “to powerfulness the astir cutting-edge AI usage cases” successful Pennsylvania. Meta volition put $2.5 cardinal to “support startups successful agrarian Pennsylvania communities successful summation to assemblage accelerator grooming for tiny businesses,” according to a information sheet. Anthropic volition perpetrate $1 cardinal implicit 3 years to enactment a programme that provides cybersecurity acquisition and an further $1 cardinal implicit 3 years to “support vigor probe astatine Carnegie Mellon University.”

The commitments included investments from immoderate state companies, too. Enbridge plans to put $1 cardinal to “expand” its state pipelines “into Pennsylvania,” per the information sheet. Equinor is investing $1.6 cardinal to “boost earthy state accumulation astatine Equinor’s Pennsylvania facilities and research opportunities to nexus state to flexible powerfulness procreation for information centers.”

The investments were announced arsenic portion of the “inaugural” Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit. Pennsylvania is a starring gas-producing state and an epicenter of the fracking boom successful the US. Trump repeated calls to “drill, baby, drill” during the event.

Update, July 15th: Added nexus to remarks from Ruth Porat.