In Case You Missed It: A.I./Data Center Articles - NewClips From Last Week - June 29

Here are Articles and NewsClips on A.I. and data center issues from last week you may have missed--

-- In Case You Missed It: A.I./Data Center Articles - NewClips From Last Week - June 29  [PaEN]

Energy Costs

-- Lt. Gov. Davis Brings Together Utility Industry Experts To Highlight Solutions To Rising Energy Costs

-- Senate Democratic Policy Committee Holds Hearing On Solutions To Lower Consumer Electric Bills

Legislation

-- Hundreds Of Residents From Communities Across PA Dealing With A.I. Data Center Development Rally At State Capitol To Support Bipartisan Legislation To Enact A 3-Year A.I.  Data Center Moratorium  [PaEN]

-- The Citizens’ Voice: Halt: Capitol Crowd Rallies For A.I. Data Center Moratorium

-- PA House Passed 20 A.I. Data Center Bills, Many By Lopsided Bipartisan Votes; PA Senate Acts On Tax Changes  [PaEN] 

-- PA House Passes Bill Giving Individual Municipalities Authority To Pause Consideration Of A.I. Data Center Proposals For 6 Months  [PaEN] 

-- PA House Nearly Unanimously Passes Bill To Repeal State Data Center Computer Equipment Sales Tax Exemption  [PaEN] 

-- PA House Passes Bill Limiting State Data Center Tax Credit To Those Developers Following Gov. Shapiro's Responsible Infrastructure Development Standards  [PaEN] 

-- PennLive: PA Senate Passes Bill With Changes To Tax Code, Including Repealing Data Center Sales Tax Exemption; Eliminating 6% Gross Receipts Tax On Electricity; Opening Sales Tax Holiday For School Supplies; Other Changes

-- TribLive: PA Senate Passes Its Version Of Repealing State Data Center Sales Tax Exemption, 6% Gross Receipts Tax On Electricity, Education Tax Credit Reform, More 

-- City & State PA: In Bipartisan Fashion, PA Lawmakers Vote To Repeal Sales Tax Exemption For A.I. Data Centers 197-5 

-- Spotlight PA: Shapiro Wants To Use Tax Incentives To Push A.I. Data Centers To Behave Better; His Own Party And Republicans Want To Repeal Them

-- WESA: PA Lawmakers Weigh Whether To Rein In A.I. Data Center Construction With A Carrot Or A Stick

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Environmental Groups Push PA Lawmakers To Pass HB 1834 To Protect Ratepayers, Regulate A.I. Data Centers

-- PennLive: Amid Growing Voter Outcry, A.I. Data Centers Have Emerged As An Election Issue For PA Lawmakers

-- PA House Unanimously Passes Bill To Eliminate 6% Gross Receipts Tax On Electric Bills, Fix Electric, Natural Gas, Water, Wastewater Utility Ratemaking Process To Limit Shareholder Profits  [PaEN] 

-- The Center Square: PA House Okays Bill To Let Municipalities Call A 6-Month A.I. Data Center Pause

-- TribLive/PennLive: PA House Approves Bills Allowing Local Data Center Moratoriums, Restricting State Tax Benefits As Backlash Grows 

-- Post-Gazette/PennLive: As A.I. Data Center Backlash Grows, Bills Allowing Local Moratoriums, Limiting, Repealing State Tax Breaks Pass PA House

-- Tribune-Democrat: PA House Passes Bills To Enact GRID Standards As Condition Of Getting State Tax Credit, Let Municipalities Pause Data Center Developments For 6 Months

-- Reading Eagle: 2 A.I. Data Center Bills Pass PA House By Large Margins

-- Observer-Reporter: PA House Sends 3 A.I. Data Center Bills To State Senate: Limits On And Repeal Of State Tax Exemption, 180-Day Local Moratoriums

-- House Unanimously Passed Bill To Base All Electric, Natural Gas, Water And Wastewater Rates On A Market-Based Return On Equity To Address  Increasing Utility Bills  [House Bill 2224]

-- PA Capital-Star: PA House Passes Bill With $1.7 Billion Tax Cut On Electricity, Reins In Public Utility Company Profits [Electric, Natural Gas, Water, Wastewater] By Setting New Rate Formula 

-- Erie Times/USA Today: PA House Bill Would Make Data Centers Pay Seniors’ Property Tax Bills

-- Scranton Times: What’s In Republican Sen. Brown’s ‘Residents First’ A.I. Data Center Legislation Setting Limits On An Industry That’s Inundating Communities In Her District

Grid

-- PJM Interconnection Holds Next Generation Capacity Auction June 30, Results To Be Announced July 14  [PaEN]

-- PJM Adds New Emergency Procedures To Deal With Strained Grid: A Capacity Advisory; Directive For Data Centers To Use Backup Generators  [PaEN] 

-- PJM Interconnection Issues Hot Weather Alert For June 29 In Western Region, June 30 to July 3 For Entire Service Area; 5th Alert This Season  [PaEN] 

-- Financial Times: Exelon CEO Warns US Faces Blackouts As Soon As 2027 Due To Power Supply Shortfall As A Result Of Data Center Power Demands [PDF of Article]

-- Utility Dive: 6 Takeaways From FERC’s A.I. Data Center Connection Order: Regional Solutions; Trying To Protect Existing Ratepayers; Advanced Transmission Evaluations 

-- Utility Dive: Grid Operators Making Significant Progress In Generation Queues, But No Evidence Requests Are Being Processed More Quickly; Fast-Track Policies Promote Fossil-Fuel Heavy Generation 

-- Bloomberg: Solar And Batteries Are Coming For Natural Gas’ Crown On Texas Power Grid

Generation

-- Inquirer: Constellation Energy Three Mile Island Nuclear Data Center Power Plant Engineer Manager Indicted On Federal Insider Trading Charges Of Illegally Profiting On Stock Options Related To The Plant Reopening

-- TribLive/PennLive: Three Mile Island Nuclear Data Center Power Plant Restart Deal Was Secret, A Constellation Energy Nuclear Engineer Manager Used The Info To Make $1.4 Million, Grand Jury Indictment Says

-- DEP Invites Comments On Significant Modification To Title V Air Quality Permit For Constellation Energy Eddystone Natural Gas Power Plant In Delaware County  [PaEN]

-- PennLive Guest Essay: PA Is Drowning In Natural Gas But Starved For Electric Power, It’s Time To Let Utilities Build Generation Again - By Susan Shanaman, Former Chair, PA Public Utility Commission  

-- Utility Dive: North American Electric Reliability Corp: Deployable Generation Reserves Shrinking As Coal, Gas-Fired Power Plants Forced Outage Rates Rise 

-- Utility Dive: 6 Fossil Fuel Power Plants DOE Ordered To Remain Open Have Produced Little Power: Eddystone In PA None This Year 

-- Utility Dive: US DOE Orders Keeping Power Plants Open Beyond Their Closure Dates Are Incurring $550 Million In Added Costs, What Are The Benefits? 

-- AP: US DOE Announces $17.5 Billion In Loans For 10 New Large Nuclear Reactors Using Same Westinghouse AP1000 Design 

-- Utility Dive: US DOE Offers $17.5 Billion In Loans For 10 Westinghouse Nuclear Power Reactors; Westinghouse Has Signed Letters Of Intent With 7 Partners, Each With Identified Project Sites 

Land Use

-- The Citizens’ Voice: Project Hazelnut A.I. Data Center Offers $10,000 To Hazle Twp. Households As An Incentive To Approve The Plan  [4,505 Households In Twp. - $45 Million] 

-- The Center Square: A.I. Data Center Developer’s Proposed $10,000 Per Household Payment To Hazle Twp. Residents In Luzerne County Called ‘Bribe’ For Local Approval 

-- Scranton Times: Noise Projections For Proposed 400 MW Gas Data Center Power Plant In Archbald Fell On Defiant Ears At Monday Hearing 

-- Scranton Times: A.I. Data Center Developer Tells Court Olyphant Boro Public Hearings An Unnecessary Delay, Asks Judge To Compel Boro To Approve Zoning Permit; Residents Disgusted By Company

-- Scranton Times Chris Kelly Opinion: Sound And Fury In Archbald Over Data Center Power Plant Noise Study

-- WNEP: Jenkins Twp. Tables Vote On A.I. Data Center Zoning Regulations Amid Resident Concerns They Aren’t Strong Enough In Luzerne County

-- Morning Call: Here’s What’s Changed In Project Atlas A.I. Data Center Proposal Near Parkland High School, South Whitehall Twp. 

-- Morning Call: Latest Project Atlas A.I. Data Center Plan Still Facing Questions, Concerns In South Whitehall Twp. 

-- PennLive: West Rockhill Twp. Supervisors Opt To Let ‘Citizens Group’ Craft Data Center Rules In Private, Avoiding Sunshine Act In Bucks County

-- PennLive: Massive 3,200 Acre Homer City A.I. Data Center Campus, 4.5 GW Gas Power Plant Swallowing Tiny PA Coal Town In Indiana County: ‘It Will Devour The Future’

-- PennLive: Western PA Coal Towns Are Ground Zero For A.I. Data Centers: ‘A Boom Coming’ 

-- Observer-Reporter: More Than 50 Amwell Twp. Residents Voice Support For A.I. Data Center Regulation In Washington County 

-- Republican Herald: Mount Carmel Area Residents Concerned About Data Centers Launch New Grassroots Group Aimed At Giving Coal Region Communities A Stronger Voice 

-- Williamsport Sun: Large Group Of Residents Show Up At Muncy Township Supervisors Meeting Only To Find Data Centers Were Not On The Agenda 

-- Williamsport Sun: Muncy Twp. Planning Commission Weighs Options On Regulating A.I. Data Centers In Lycoming County

-- Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County Planning Commission Offers To Help Municipalities Navigate A.I. Data Center Issues

-- Williamsport Sun: Woodward Twp. Supervisors Initiate Early Defenses Against Possible Data Centers In Lycoming County 

-- PennLive: Texas Company Submits 2 A.I. Data Center Proposals On Former Quarry Land Along The Swatara Creek In South Hanover Twp. In Dauphin County   

-- LancasterOnline: Lancaster City Council Holds Off On Approving New A.I. Data Center Rules Over How They Would Apply To 2 Projects Already Planned In The City

-- LancasterOnline: Here’s Where A.I. Data Centers Would Be Allowed Under Lancaster City’s Proposed Rules

-- WPSU: Brookville Boro Passes 180-Day Moratorium On A.I. Data Center Development In Jefferson County

-- TheDerrick.com: Scrubgrass Twp. Planning Commission Meeting Overrun By A.I. Data Center Concerns In Venango County

-- Pittsburgh Media Partnership: Pennsylvania A.I. Data Center Proposals Map

Opposition

-- The Center Square: Big Money, Enforced Silence Play Roles In Pennsylvania’s A.I. Data Center Push 

-- Inquirer Guest Essay: People Under 30 Are Concerned About The Environmental Impact Of Data Centers, Very Worried About Climate Change - Sanya Carley, Kleinman Center For Energy Policy, University Of Pennsylvania 

-- The Economist: The A.I. Backlash Is Only Getting Started - Here’s How To Deal With It 

Impacts

-- AP: A.I. Is An Energy And Water Hog, Here’s What You Can Do To Counter That

-- Wall Street Journal: A.I. Data Center Boom Sparking Third Wave Of Inflation - Cost Of Computer Chips - Following Energy, Labor & Constructions Costs

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: How A.I. Data Centers Lost The PR War And What It Means For Business

Public Participation/Meetings

-- DEP Invites Comments On Major Amendment To Homer City Generation Data Center Industrial Wastewater Facility Permit Changing Wastestreams Flowing To Discharge In Indiana County  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For Construction Of QTS Salem, LLC A.I. Data Center Campus In Salem Twp., Luzerne County  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Invites Comments On Significant Modification To Title V Air Quality Permit For Constellation Energy Eddystone Natural Gas Power Plant In Delaware County  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Permit For PPL Electric Montour-Columbia 230 kV Transmission Line Rebuild Project In Montour, Columbia Counties  [PaEN]

-- DEP Invites Comments On Permit For PPL Electric Wescosville-Allentown 138 kV Transmission Line Project In South Whitehall Twp., Lehigh County  [PaEN] 

-- DEP Invites Comments On Permit For PPL Electric Juni-Bern Laydown Yard In Carroll Twp., Perry County To Serve Construction Of Utility Upgrades  [PaEN] 

-- Lots Going On!  DEP Posted 67 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In June 27 PA Bulletin  [PaEN]

-- PA Data Center Hearings & Meetings - Physicians For Social Responsibility PA

A.I./Data Center Policy

-- PA Capital-Star: PA House Committee Splits Along Party Lines Over Regulation Proposed A.I. Chatbots

-- The Economist: America’s Data Centre Backlash Puts The A.I. Boom At Risk, Opposition Is Spreading Across The Country  [PDF of Article]

-- Bloomberg Column: Are Home-Based Backyard A.I. Data Servers An Answer To A.I.’s Biggest Problem?

-- AP: 40 Mayors Worldwide Endorse A Pact To Shape Sustainable A.I. Data Center Development [None In PA]

-- C40 Cities: Mayors From Around The World Unite In Call For Sustainable Urban Data Centres [None In PA]

-- Utility Dive: TVA Considers Up To 26 GW Of Natural Gas-Fired Generation To Help Meet A.I. Data Center Demand

-- Wall Street Journal: As A.I. Companies Race For Data Center Power, Amazon And Google Have The Lead

-- AP: A.I. Is Plowing Through The Workplace, This New Group Wants To Help People Adapt And Have Jobs

[Posted: June 28, 2026]  PA Environment Digest