PPL Corp. (NYSE:PPL) is the "biggest winner" from this week's Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, with its joint venture with Blackstone Infrastructure to build gas-fired power plants to serve data centers in Pennsylvania and across the PJM Interconnection,

Blackstone Infrastructure has announced a $25 billion investment towards developing digital and energy infrastructure in Pennsylvania. Blackstone Infrastructure and PPL Corporation also announced a partnership to build natural gas generation stations to power data centers in the commonwealth.

A project near Carlisle was the 2nd largest out of 18 projects discussed at a major energy conference Tuesday attended by President Trump and Gov. Shapiro.

Blackstone plans to invest $25 billion in developing data centers and power plants in Pennsylvania, President and Chief Operating Officer Jon Gray said at a panel at the Energy and Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.

Gov. Josh Shapiro, and top energy executives unveiled more than $90 billion in new investments aimed at positioning Pennsylvania as a major hub for energy ... Read More »

Pennsylvania’s growing data center development offers economic opportunities but also raises tough questions about sustainability and community impact. As electricity demand surges, and older generation sources are retiring faster than new ones come online,

PPL said within its service territory in Pennsylvania alone, data center interest has reached over 60 gigawatts (GW) of potential projects, with over 13 GW in advanced stages of planning. If all 13 GW come online, PPL estimated a 6 GW generation shortfall in PPL Electric Utilities’ service territory in the next five to six years.

(Reuters) -CoreWeave plans to spend up to $6 billion on building a new artificial intelligence data center in Pennsylvania, as part of a push by U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain the country’s edge in the booming technology sector,

The Shapiro administration is slashing red tape and has given developers the green light so Pennsylvania will move at the “speed of business” and become a global competitor in AI. Not everyone is happy about it.

National and state political leaders are rushing to regulate and incentivize the rapidly growing data center industry.

As $90 billion in AI and energy investments take root, Pennsylvania is rolling out a multipronged strategy to become a national data center powerhouse. We examine how the