Trump blows 70 Billion on "A.I." electricity in Pittsburgh

[Snowball]

"Artificial intelligence requires massive amounts of energy and computing capacity, and a local partnership headed by real estate developer Chuck Betters hopes to transform the 89-acre site of the old mill into a massive, multi-billion dollar data processing center"

Trump and McCormick to announce $70 billion in AI and energy investments for Pennsylvania

Can the Pittsburgh region transform its economy and become the world leader in the development of artificial intelligence?

www.cbsnews.com

Chuck "CJ Betters" bought the 72 Steel plant. He also built a new cracker (plastic pellets) plant (my friend worked on it in the building phase, but he had to intimidate officials to get it through: "After 33 years, developer Chuck Betters said it's time for Beaver County to do a property reassessment. On Tuesday, Betters filed a lawsuit against the county and relevant officials to start the process."

Betters predicted the Shell cracker plant (which he made many millions on) would bring an economic boom, but it hasn't happened. Instead, it's ruined the environment and caused bad air and water. The plant produces as much as 3.5 billion pounds of single-use plastic every year and is the size of 3 football fields.
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Three members of his family filed a lawsuit against him for threats and physical abuse:

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As with the plastics plant, Trump, Betters and others today are promising rainbows and butterflies when the U.S. Gov borrows 70 Billion to grant for this outlay of "A.I." data centers to do thoroughly useless and energy-consuming snooping on Americans. There is no objective reason to collect so much data on energy grid. Whatever they are up to, they are making money off it, and have more power over the lives of everyday Americans, and that's really all they care about.

 

[Swordsmyth]

America's grid is old and low on capacity thanks to Demoncrat anti-industrial policies, investing in electrical production is not a waste.

 

[CaptUSA]

America's grid is old and low on capacity thanks to Demoncrat anti-industrial policies, investing in electrical production is not a waste.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Pittsburgh is in PJM, which has excess capacity. Secondly, utilities are not permitted to overbuild in preparation for unrequested loads. That costs ratepayers. Finally, this isn't about electrical production, which is plentiful in the Pittsburgh area, it's about the data center loads to use that energy.

 

[jmdrake]

"Artificial intelligence requires massive amounts of energy and computing capacity, and a local partnership headed by real estate developer Chuck Betters hopes to transform the 89-acre site of the old mill into a massive, multi-billion dollar data processing center"

Trump and McCormick to announce $70 billion in AI and energy investments for Pennsylvania

Can the Pittsburgh region transform its economy and become the world leader in the development of artificial intelligence?

www.cbsnews.com

Chuck "CJ Betters" bought the 72 Steel plant. He also built a new cracker (plastic pellets) plant (my friend worked on it in the building phase, but he had to intimidate officials to get it through: "After 33 years, developer Chuck Betters said it's time for Beaver County to do a property reassessment. On Tuesday, Betters filed a lawsuit against the county and relevant officials to start the process."

Betters predicted the Shell cracker plant (which he made many millions on) would bring an economic boom, but it hasn't happened. Instead, it's ruined the environment and caused bad air and water. The plant produces as much as 3.5 billion pounds of single-use plastic every year and is the size of 3 football fields.
see more in these results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=shell+cracker+plant+betters&ia=web

Three members of his family filed a lawsuit against him for threats and physical abuse:

abuse family cj betters at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

As with the plastics plant, Trump, Betters and others today are promising rainbows and butterflies when the U.S. Gov borrows 70 Billion to grant for this outlay of "A.I." data centers to do thoroughly useless and energy-consuming snooping on Americans. There is no objective reason to collect so much data on energy grid. Whatever they are up to, they are making money off it, and have more power over the lives of everyday Americans, and that's really all they care about.

Solar panels? Bad. AI wasting energy? Good. Trump supporters? Stupid.

 

[Invisible Man]

America's grid is old and low on capacity thanks to Demoncrat anti-industrial policies, investing in electrical production is not a waste.

Where in the powers enumerated in the Constitution is the responsibility for this delegated to the federal government?

 

[acptulsa]

investing in electrical production is not a waste.

Investing in electric generation is wealth redistribution and corporate welfare.

You're bragging about your orange god acting like FDR, you Demoncrat you.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Investing in electric generation is wealth redistribution and corporate welfare.

You're bragging about your orange god acting like FDR, you Demoncrat you.

I didn't say the feds should be spending the money, and they aren't, Trump is just helping put the deal together.
I said it wasn't a waste as the OP implied it was.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Where in the powers enumerated in the Constitution is the responsibility for this delegated to the federal government?

For what?
For coordinating a deal that relates to actual interstate commerce in electrical generation.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Solar panels? Bad. AI wasting energy? Good. Trump supporters? Stupid.

Solar panels are bad.

 

[Invisible Man]

For what?
For coordinating a deal that relates to actual interstate commerce in electrical generation.

Ah, the old catchall of whatever "relates to" interstate commerce.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Ah, the old catchall of whatever "relates to" interstate commerce.

In this case it is Interstate commerce.

 

[acptulsa]

I didn't say the feds should be spending the money

You were defending Trump for doing it. Which government does he work in?

 

[Swordsmyth]

You were defending Trump for doing it. Which government does he work in?

He's not spending the money, he helped put together a deal for other people's money.

 

[Snowball]

Notable attendees include BlackRock Inc (NYSE:BLK).’s Larry Fink, Palantir Technologies Inc.’s Alex Karp, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Exxon Mobil Corp (NYSE:XOM).’s Darren Woods, and Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX)’s Mike Wirth.

Administration officials speaking at the summit include White House crypto czar David Sacks, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum also will attend, McCormick’s office said.

Live Coverage begins at 2:30

live feed: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...ergy-agenda-at-pennsylvania-innovation-summit

Neither the White House nor McCormick’s office gave breakdowns of the $70 billion or what the investments entail.

 

[acptulsa]

He's not spending the money, he helped put together a deal for other people's money.

So you're trying to tell us neither BlackRock nor Palantir get one thin dime from D.C?

 

[jmdrake]

Solar panels are bad.

AI centers wasting energy is bad.

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

Generative artificial intelligence uses massive amounts of energy for computation and data storage and millions of gallons of water to cool the equipment at data centers. Now, legislators and regulators — in the U.S. and the EU — are starting to demand accountability.

e360.yale.edu

 

[acptulsa]

AI centers wasting energy is bad.

And the Cliché-O-Matic they've sent to plague us is proof that it's a waste.

 

[PAF]

h/t @Snowball


Jul 15, 2025

PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Donald Trump and Sen. David McCormick of Pennsylvania will jointly announce roughly $70 billion of energy investments in the state Tuesday as the president travels to Pittsburgh for a conference with dozens of top executives to promote his energy and technology agenda.

President Donald Trump is expected to speak at 2:30 p.m. EDT. Watch live in our video player.,





The Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, and it comes as the state’s political and business leaders are working to forge the city into a hub for robotics, artificial intelligence and energy.


The list of participating CEOs includes leaders from global behemoths like Blackstone, Bridgewater, SoftBank, Amazon Web Services, BlackRock and ExxonMobil and local companies such as the Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which deploys AI to bolster energy capacity. Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, will also attend.

Administration officials speaking at the summit include White House crypto czar David Sacks, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum also will attend, McCormick’s office said.




Article continues:

WATCH: Trump plugs energy and tech investments at summit in Pennsylvania

At the event Tuesday in Pittsburgh helmed by Republican Sen. David McCormick, Trump boasted of a "true golden age for America" in energy policy and artificial intelligence.

www.pbs.org

 

[PAF]

It's on now.

 

[Snowball]

energy production is supposed to produce energy at the mechanical level
not consume vast amounts never dealt with before

there is no functioning reason to have 500 Billion Stargate AI Open AI Blackrock etc.
steeped into our power grids and government files

This is all very sinister and someday they will turn it against us and Trump is totally in on the whole job.

It is demonic.