PA’s Community Colleges Big Winners re Data Center Buildout

Pennsylvania's community colleges stand to be big winners in the data center sweepstakes. In January, MDN brought you the news that TECfusions, based in Tampa, Florida, had purchased 1,395 acres in Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County), PA, for a groundbreaking data center project called TECfusions Keystone Connect (see Massive 3 GW Gas-Fired AI/Data Center Coming to Southwest Pa.). In April, MDN brought you the exciting news that THE largest gas-fired power plant in the country, along with a MASSIVE data center complex, will be built at a former coal-fired power plant site in Indiana County, PA (see Largest Gas-Fired Power Plant in the U.S. Coming in Western Pa.). Both projects are in the southwestern part of the state. However, last week, Amazon announced that it will invest $20 billion (or more) to build at least three massive data centers in the eastern part of the state (see Amazon Investing $20 Billion to Build AI Data Centers in Eastern PA). Some of the biggest winners are likely to be Pennsylvania's community colleges in the eastern part of the state, which will train people to build and then operate these data centers.

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