Left-wing activists bankrolled by the Heinz family fortune are trying to choke off a multi-billion-dollar data center in the middle of Pennsylvania’s energy heartland. The target is TECfusions’ project in Upper Burrell Township near Pittsburgh. The company just announced a $4 billion IPO. The protesters want it stopped cold.
Protect PT, a local group that cut its teeth fighting fracking, pushed the township into a 180-day construction moratorium. Executive director Gillian Graber says nearby residents simply do not want the facility because of power and water use. Fair enough if that were the whole story. It is not.
Heinz Endowments handed Protect PT $400,000 in 2024. That covered roughly half the group’s budget. The foundation poured nearly $93 million that year into a long list of progressive causes. The same outfit has backed Protect PT since 2016. Old industrial money now funds the fight against new industrial strength.
TECfusions is not dropping a massive new footprint on virgin land. The company is expanding an existing former Alcoa research campus. Power comes from on-site natural gas. The facility can even send excess electricity back to the grid in an emergency. Founder and CTO Simon Tusha put it plainly: “We’re not taking power from the community. We’re not taking power from the grid.”
“Every printing press had its protesters. Every data center will too. And history remembers neither.”
That is Tusha again. He calls data centers the new utilities, the modern equivalent of railroads and water works. Environmental objections collapse under the numbers. Pennsylvania ranks second nationally in natural gas production and third in coal. All the state’s data centers together use about 2.5 percent of statewide energy. Water withdrawals from these facilities amount to a rounding error.
Even Democratic Senator John Fetterman sees the larger picture. “AI is remaking our world and America must maintain the lead,” he told the New York Post. “If not, China wins and we live under their rules. The CCP is thrilled with data center moratoriums and I strongly reject those kinds of policies.”
Governor Josh Shapiro’s office talks about “responsible” development and GRID Standards. Fine. But the pattern across the country looks less like careful stewardship and more like coordinated obstruction. One hundred fifty-five local moratoriums already exist. Another 127 have been proposed. Multiple state legislatures are considering year-long freezes. New York under Kathy Hochul is already locking itself out of the future, guaranteeing higher costs and dependence on other states.
Much of the organized resistance carries a darker funding trail. Shanghai-based Marxist Neville Roy Singham has poured millions into American groups that agitate against AI infrastructure. OpenAI itself flagged Chinese-linked accounts pushing water and energy hysteria on social media.
The goal is not hard to see. Slow America down while Beijing races ahead. A Bitcoin Policy Institute report documents how networks tied to Singham have helped stall or block billions in U.S. AI data center investment.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. That is 2 Timothy 1:7. Fear is the currency of these campaigns. Sound minds look at Pennsylvania’s energy abundance, the adaptive reuse of an industrial site, on-site generation that can support the grid, and the strategic necessity of staying ahead in artificial intelligence. They reach a different conclusion.
Protect PT and its Heinz money will roll into the August hearing with lawyers and experts. TECfusions will answer with facts and history. One side is trying to freeze progress in place. The other is building the infrastructure that will decide whether America leads the next century or watches China write the rules.
The choice is not complicated. It only looks that way when the funding comes from progressive endowments and the talking points echo foreign interests.
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