The High Cost of AI: How Data Centers Are Reshaping Pennsylvania’s Energy Landscape

This report prepared by Clean Energy Group with additional contributions by Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania and Clean Air Council details the impacts of rising energy demand from data centers in Pennsylvania and explains how the current trajectory will increase fossil fuel energy generation, raise energy costs, and worsen local air quality. The report includes recommendations for how community advocates and policymakers can push back against potentially harmful data center growth in their state.