PPG | Pittsburgh’s AI Moment: EQT and the Energy Race Behind the Boom

Summary:
In this July 13, 2025 article by Daniel Moore, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette spotlights how Pittsburgh is becoming a national focal point for the convergence of artificial intelligence, politics and energy. Ahead of the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at CMU—featuring EQT CEO Toby Rice, Gov. Josh Shapiro and President Trump—the piece outlines how western Pennsylvania’s vast natural gas reserves are being positioned as critical infrastructure for the explosive growth of AI and data centers.

Rice promotes natural gas as the only scalable solution to meet AI's surging power demands, framing EQT as a backbone of the AI economy.

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