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.

Data center operators in China, which use Nvidia’s H20 chips to crunch data for various AI services, have been struggling to find a local alternative that is as good as the U.S. company’s chips.

Gartner predicts 2025 data center buying will continue despite pause on net-new spending due to political uncertainty.

Sen. Dave McCormick announced at an energy and innovation summit on Tuesday that Pennsylvania has recently received $90 billion in commitments. The political and business leaders who spoke at the event at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh said these investments will help position the state as a leader in the AI revolution that is just beginning to transform the country and its economy.

Lawmakers want to make the commonwealth more attractive to data center developers, and are proposing incentives and new regulations to lure them.

The Japanese telecom giant’s data-center arm is aiming to pour billions into its business to meet rising demand for artificial-intelligence computing and other uses, its chief executive said.

As generative AI accelerates global demand for data centers, Korea is falling behind major economies in both the number of facilities and investment volume, data indicated Monday.