Trump announces $90B AI investment push led by Google’s $25B commitment

President Donald Trump announced more than $90 billion in AI and energy investments at Pennsylvania’s inaugural Energy and Innovation Summit on Tuesday, with Google leading the commitments through a $25 billion data center and AI infrastructure investment. The announcement positions Pennsylvania as a major AI hub while aligning with Trump’s broader energy agenda in a key gas-producing state.

The big picture: The investments represent a significant push to establish Pennsylvania as a central location for AI infrastructure development, combining the state’s energy resources with cutting-edge technology investments.

Key commitments: Google is making the largest financial commitment with multiple billion-dollar investments.

• The company plans to invest $25 billion to build data centers and AI infrastructure for the electric grid in the PJM region, according to remarks from Ruth Porat, Google’s president and chief investment officer.
• Google also announced a $3 billion US hydropower deal with Brookfield Energy.

Other major tech investments: Several prominent AI and cloud computing companies announced substantial commitments to Pennsylvania.

• CoreWeave, a cloud computing company, announced plans to invest more than $6 billion to build a new data center “to power the most cutting-edge AI use cases” in Pennsylvania.
• Meta will invest $2.5 million to “support startups in rural Pennsylvania communities in addition to community accelerator training for small businesses.”
• Anthropic will commit $1 million over three years to support a program that provides cybersecurity education and an additional $1 million over three years to “support energy research at Carnegie Mellon University.”

Energy sector involvement: Traditional energy companies are also participating with significant pipeline and production investments.

• Enbridge plans to invest $1 billion to “expand” its gas pipelines “into Pennsylvania.”
• Equinor is investing $1.6 billion to “boost natural gas production at Equinor’s Pennsylvania facilities and explore opportunities to link gas to flexible power generation for data centers.”

Why this matters: Pennsylvania’s role as a leading gas-producing state and epicenter of the US fracking boom makes it strategically important for AI infrastructure that requires substantial energy resources, while Trump’s repeated calls to “drill, baby, drill” during the event underscore the administration’s focus on domestic energy production alongside technological advancement.