Repost from The Department of Innovation & Performance by Trevor Stoll PGH Lab is proud to celebrate 10 years of supporting the startup ecosystem with the launch of our 11.0 Cohort. Since its founding in 2016, PGH Lab has partnered with 59 companies, piloting innovative solutions that help strengthen the City of Pittsburgh and uplift entrepreneurs. While our mission remains the same — to connect startups with real-world opportunities to solve civic challenges — the ideas, technologies, and...

AI is often discussed as if it were weightless. It is not. According to the International Energy Agency , global data-center electricity demand is projected to double by 2030. In the U.S., S&P Global reports that more than 80% of private domestic demand growth in early 2025 was tied to data centers and high-tech spending. As Mark Muro of Brookings put it bluntly to The New York Times , “It’s a two-track economy. This AI gold rush is generating excitement while papering over drift...

This blog is a Part II follow up to the last blog on AI governance, featured in Technical.ly At the personal level, sloppy AI governance shows up in deepfakes, revenge porn, and algorithmic discrimination. Yet, even at the interpersonal level, these unregulated capabilities of products like Grok can damage reputations, spread misinformation, and critically- harm children. At the global level, regulation discrepancies and hasty decisions influence AI sovereignty tactics, trade leverage,...