Data center development in Pennsylvania is booming. Last year, U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick and President Donald Trump announced $90 billion in private investments for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, data centers and energy projects across the state. Today, according to the Data Center Proposal Tracker, Pennsylvania has 52 data centers, and there are at least 53
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On Tuesday, April 14, the Philadelphia Gas Commission — the government body that oversees the City-owned Philadelphia Gas Works — did something highly unusual. It voted to table a vote on PGW’s 2027 capital budget, basically postponing a routine step until a later date. “I was very surprised that the Commission did not make a
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Tucked into a still corner of Grays Ferry, a block-spanning brick building with towering stacks overlooks the river and its walking trail. Thick steel pipes snake around the compound, carrying water and gas to tanks and boilers. The air thrums with the sound of machinery hard at work turning water into steam. This is the
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In 2022, a pipe failed at the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Freeport, Texas, causing an explosion and fire. The conflagration took place entirely within the facility, built on a barrier island along the Gulf of Mexico. The nearest residential area sits more than a mile away from the plant, adding a buffer
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When York Energy Storage LLC proposed in 2023 to turn the small valley of Cuff’s Run in York County, on the western bank of the Susquehanna River, into an energy storage reservoir, William McMahon, the engineer and energy entrepreneur behind the plan, billed it as a solution to the limitations of renewable energy. As is
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