July 20, 2025
This originally ran in The Washington Examiner
Recent remarks by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit rang loud and clear: The Keystone State is poised to fuel America’s next great technological transformation. By co-locating AI data centers with abundant local energy resources — especially natural gas and nuclear — Pennsylvania is becoming ground zero for the AI revolution.
But if we want this revolution to reach its full potential — not just in Pennsylvania, but across America — we need to talk about what’s missing from the conversation: fiber broadband.