The number of data centers in Pennsylvania has doubled over the past few years, with the state investing tens of billions of dollars in the technology.
Data centers are physical locations that house and maintain infrastructure-supporting cloud computing and the training of artificial intelligence models. As AI becomes more prevalent in everyday use, Pitt professors explain how these invisible backbones of the internet work.
There are currently more than 85 data centers in Pennsylvania, with about 40% of the centers located in Pittsburgh…