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Episode 2: “From Steel to Servers” with guest Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning

Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning joins “Critical Hours” to discuss whether Beaver County will shape the age of AI – or have it happen to us.

Steel built Beaver County. Now data centers, the physical infrastructure behind artificial intelligence, are arriving in western Pennsylvania. Lauren Leonard and Stephen Catanzarite talk with Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning about what the county got right and wrong in past transitions. They also ask what good data center policy looks like, what commissioners and other elected leaders actually control, and what the next generation of county leadership should know.

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