Some of the headline-grabbing investments announced at this month’s Energy and Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh don’t match what companies have actually pledged.
National energy and tech CEOs joined Sen. Dave McCormick and other elected officials at Carnegie Mellon University on July 15 to announce more than $90 billion for various data center and energy generation projects.
While many executives at the summit credited the Trump administration for paving the way for these investments, reporting from WESA found that several of the Pennsylvania-based projects were already underway before the second Trump administration began in January.
A deeper dive into the full list of investments released by McCormick’s office reveals that some of those figures do not align with the pledges companies actually made in their own announcements, either.
For example, the release from McCormick’s office says Constellation Energy will spend $2.4 billion to increase power generation at the Limerick nuclear power plant, but the company would not confirm that amount. McCormick’s office did not respond to Technical.ly’s request for comment.
That’s just one of the discrepancies that Technical.ly found. Keep reading for a breakdown of the pledges made at the summit and where those investments currently stand.
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