Opinion: I have seen the future of AI. It’s in Western Pennsylvania.

May 20, 2025

CARNEGIE, Pa. — Toby Rice’s second-floor office in this middle-class town named after famed industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who made the region the center of American industry nearly 150 years ago, is so unassuming that you would never imagine it’s also where the chief executive of the largest independent natural gas producer in the United States hangs his hat.

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