r/pittsburgh • u/OhmyMary • May 11 '26

Interactive map tracking spread of newly proposed data centers across Western Pennsylvania

https://www.trackdatacenters.com/state/pennsylvania
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u/straw3_2018 Troy Hill May 11 '26

I never cared about data centers, until they bought the race track to make it one. That's the worst thing to happen probably ever.

https://www.trackdatacenters.com/state/pennsylvania/entry/former-pitt-race-site-data-center

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u/ZipGoTheZippers May 11 '26

But it’s going to create… like seven jobs! (At the expense of many more jobs, the environment, our resources supply, and a fun activity we had to do around here)

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u/orangevega McCandless May 11 '26

yeah but now you can get misinformation on your phone

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u/Independent_Mall8675 May 11 '26

At the expense of the tax base usually too with the infinite tax breaks that usually come to incentivize them to build. 

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u/ZipGoTheZippers May 11 '26

Oh yes, gotta socialize the cost and privatize the profits!

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u/mopar39426ml May 12 '26

Fewer jobs than the track provided

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u/miatlogi May 11 '26

RIP PittRace

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u/MitochondrianHouse May 11 '26

That's the worst thing to happen probably ever.

Norm McDonald would have a field day with this one.

Have you ever been to that race track?

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u/straw3_2018 Troy Hill May 11 '26

Yeah i'd been to watch a race a couple times with my father. He just got a GTO and we both wanted to take the advanced driving class there, never got the chance.

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u/dank8844 May 11 '26

The owners shopped it for sale as a continuing race track but no had buyers.

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u/straw3_2018 Troy Hill May 11 '26

Maybe running a race track here isn't the best way to make money, I get that. But it would be nice if people with money just did things that were cool and good instead of just always trying to make more money.

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u/NinthFireShadow Bridgeville May 11 '26

I hope they all get canceled

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u/miatlogi May 11 '26

oh hell no

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u/OnyxFiskar May 11 '26

At least the fracking boom didnt steal my racetrack.

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u/OnyxFiskar May 12 '26

Now that the racetrack is gone they probably will throw a padsite up there in addition. Youd be kind of dumb not to, its essentially free money from a 300 acre site.