Artificial Intelligence

Fit Energy, the developer behind the data center, held an open house on Wednesday to provide transparency to the community.

University of Scranton campus group Christians for the Common Good held a bus tour around some of the land being prepared for data center construction and met with local residents opposed to the development.

Pennsylvania’s legislators return to the capitol Monday following a 10-week recess, with several unresolved issues awaiting action, including the future of skill games, regulation of data centers, rising utility costs and restrictions on cell phone use in schools.

Amsterdam-based AI cloud company Nebius hosts open house for residents to ask questions and learn about its plans for Schuylkill County.

A school in Northcentral Pennsylvania will have an expanding role in the future of artificial intelligence. Pennsylvania College of Technology will offer two new minors starting in the fall: Artificial Intelligence in Industry & Society and Artificial Intelligence Foundations & Applications.

A 62-mile trail through Lycoming and Tioga counties is Pennsylvania’s 2026 Trail of the Year. The Pine Creek Rail Trail stretches from Jersey Shore to Wellsboro.

State Treasurer Stacy Garrity, the Republican Party’s endorsed challenger to Gov. Josh Shapiro in this year’s election, suggested Monday that Pennsylvania’s rural communities would be good locations for new data centers built to power artificial intelligence technologies.

Pike has been Pennsylvania’s only county without a hospital or a primary care center. That changed on Monday. Northwell Health unveiled its new primary and immediate care center in Dingmans Ferry, which will be open to residents and visitors in January.

Another hearing was held in the substantive validity challenge against Clifton Twp.'s zoning ordinance for data centers.

Two of three Clifton Township supervisors voting against settling a zoning issue with developers seeking to build a massive data center in the North Pocono area.