26: Pennsylvania Pursues Data Center Hub Status, Converting Golf Courses. Jim McTague reports on Pennsylvania's effort to become a data center hub, citing over $90 billion committed investment statewide. York County secured $5 billion, with plans including co
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🗓️ 25 October 2025
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| 0:31.1 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Jim McTagg in Lancaster County, former Washington editor for Barron's magazine, now a novelist watching Lancaster the attendant counties, as they all fall for the data |
| 0:41.3 | center bounty of the future. |
| 0:43.8 | And you bet. |
| 0:45.1 | However, right now we're going to be cautious. |
| 0:47.7 | We're going to say there's a building boom going on, and it might be overbuilding. |
| 0:51.9 | But when golf courses are involved, you know something |
| 0:55.8 | serious. Jim, a very good evening to you. There's a golf course in York County. There's need |
| 1:01.3 | in York County to build a data center. How does this work? How do they go together? Is there an |
| 1:06.7 | intention here that is bigger than York County or is it isolated? Good evening to you. |
| 1:12.5 | Good evening, John. Well, the state of Pennsylvania wants to be the end all and be all for data |
| 1:17.8 | centers. That's the governor's plan. And we have over $90 billion committed investment for |
| 1:24.8 | AI. And New York County, the White Rose County next to the Red Rose |
| 1:30.6 | Lancaster, it's kind of like the British Civil War, they've gotten $5 billion pledged |
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