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ZITO: From 'all in' to tap the brakes: Josh Shapiro redefines Pennsylvania's tech boom

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ZITO: From 'all in' to tap the brakes: Josh Shapiro redefines Pennsylvania's tech boom

Governor reverses course on pushing data-centre development indicative of the politics of the industry

In June 2025, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) stood in Berwick and described a new economic horizon for Pennsylvania: Amazon’s plan to invest at least $20 billion in cloud-computing and artificial intelligence campuses across the Commonwealth.

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“Pennsylvania is competing again — and I’m proud to announce that, with Amazon’s commitment of at least $20 billion to build new state-of-the-art data centre campuses across our Commonwealth, we have secured the largest private-sector investment in the history of Pennsylvania,” Shapiro said at the time.

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Pennsylvania was “all in on AI,” he added, while casting the state as a major national........

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