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High-Tech Coal Mining and Its Role in the Future of AI Energy. Salena Zito discusses her visit to a high-tech coal mine 1,200 feet below Pennsylvania, highlighting modern, filtered, and pristine working conditions. The industry offers high-paying, generat

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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High-Tech Coal Mining and Its Role in the Future of AI Energy. Salena Zito discusses her visit to a high-tech coal mine 1,200 feet below Pennsylvania, highlighting modern, filtered, and pristine working conditions. The industry offers high-paying, generational jobs, even for those with advanced degrees. Coal, alongside natural gas and nuclear power, is vital for providing the reliable, strong base load energy required by new AI data centers and the defense industry.

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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

0:38.3

This is CBS I on the world. I'm John Batchelor. It's a great pleasure to welcome the author of Butler,

0:43.9

Selena Zito, the untold story of the near assassination of Donald Trump of the fight for America's heartland. But we're going to America's heartland today. Not Butler, but a thousand

0:48.9

feet below the Keystone State. Selina, a very good day to you. In The Washington Post, you and the senator are 1,000 feet below Pennsylvania in a coal mine that has AI in it.

1:01.8

Who knew these things?

1:04.0

But there's a photograph of this long corridor where you take a train to the coal face.

1:10.1

I sat there and stared at it. It's hard to

1:13.6

imagine you're a thousand feet down. What does it feel like, Selena? Good evening to you.

1:18.0

Good evening. Well, I'm the adventurous sort, and I've always been fascinated by the people that

1:24.4

make things, whether it's in a steel plant or underground.

1:30.3

So for me, it was a big thrill to go down there.

1:33.4

I've gone down before and have always found the experience fascinating.

1:38.6

One of the things that, and I hope people read the story in the Washington Post,

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