And I knew the PA Nuclear Summit was a load of industry nonsense when Stefani Pashman, president and CEO of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, actually said: “our robust innovation ecosystem, our robust commercial pipeline to lead to the development of safe, scalable and clean nuclear energy” And I can’t even believe someone could say all those propaganda buzzwords in one sentence with a straight face. It’s embarrassing. I’m embarrassed for this person. Robust innovation? Ecosystem? Nuclear energy creates waste and is certainly not without pollution. And whenever someone says “innovation” I think of Stockton Rush.
Nuclear summit highlights Pittsburgh’s potential in powering AI and data center boom By Paul J. Gough – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times Oct 3, 2025 “Today is very different, I’ve never seen this before,” said Jacques Besnainou, EVP and chief commercial officer of Cranberry Township-based Westinghouse Electric. “I’ve never seen in the United States such an electricity demand as we see today.” Besnainou described the demand from hyperscaler data center operators as growing from megawatts in previous years to now gigawatts and more.
Maybe that you’ve never seen this before should be a big red flag that it’s a bubble, and not real, and not good. But Pennsylvania always embarrasses itself by getting in late on crap bubble scams, going in hard even though all signs say no, and then crashing harder, and taking longer to recover. We’ve watched this over and over again.