The assets of the Pittsburgh region will be exhibited for President Trump and the leaders of the largest energy and technology companies in the country on Tuesday.
The American senator from Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick, organizer of the inaugural summit of Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation, is expected to announce $ 70 billion of new investments in the state.
A project should target Aliquippa, which was once the steel center of the Ohio valley until it falls in difficult times with the closure of the mill. But Aliquippa plans to rebirth, with the possible transformation of this site by powering the economy of artificial intelligence.
“This thing is eating empty for almost 50 years of my life,” said Aliquiippa mayor, Dwan Walker.
Walker remembers his father in Aciere who came out of the mill for the last time and sitting on the porch crying on the day of his closure. Today, the mayor hopes that a technological revolution can bring back his city.
“Since we were the center of steel, now we can be the center of AI,” said Walker. “I do not think, I know it can happen. I know that nowadays, 2025, Aliquippa can be a new technological center.”
Artificial intelligence requires massive quantities of energy and computer capacity, and a local partnership led by the real estate developer Chuck Betters hopes to transform the 89 -acres site of the old mill into a huge data processing center of several billion dollars, creating thousands of construction jobs, hundreds of permanent people and generating tens of millions of dollars in tax income.
“The creation of important jobs, the large tax plate and the return of the county of Beaver since the days of the arched place,” said Betterrs.
At the top of Tuesday, the Pittsburgh region will be exhibited for the heads of the largest technological companies in the country, presenting both the technological innovations developed here as well as the massive energy resources available to feed them.
Data centers will help SPAWN companies like Gecko Robotics in Pittsburgh, which has recently become a unicorn – a company more than a billion dollars. The founder Jake Loosararian will demonstrate his climbing robots powered by AI at the top and will ask these technology leaders to invest here and help Pittsburgh to take the next step.
“We have the greatest leaders in the world of AI and future energy in this city,” said Loosararian. “We must see the investments of these companies in this region – continue to do so. You will start to see a business ecosystem like Gecko that are starting to emerge.”
With the energy of natural and nuclear gas, empty industrial sites ready for the development of the data center and a culture of innovation, leaders say that the Pittsburgh region is only well placed to be a world leader in AI.
Walker thinks that this can bring Avenue Franklin d’Aliquippa.
“More companies in the city center, more shopping centers, more access to income, this dollar turns two or three times in this community instead of leaving it,” said Walker.
If and when the factory site is developed, it will start to merge the technological know-how of the region with its vast energy resources, creating a new ECC economy which, according to managers, will benefit everyone.
