Cloud computing company CoreWeave just announced a $6-billion investment to put up an AI data center with an initial 100 megawatts of capacity that is expected to go as high as 300 megawatts in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The company says that this project will result in 600 construction jobs and that it will hire up to 175 permanent workers, according to Bloomberg.
The announcement comes about a week after Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro threatened to cut off PJM Interconnection, the grid operator that serves 13 states and Washington, D.C., because of soaring electricity prices brought on by the massive demand of AI facilities. This is going to be a massive issue for the other states that rely on PJM, as Pennsylvania is a net exporter of power and, according to the BAI Group, delivers up to 25% of the power supply to states in the Eastern and Midwestern United States.
