Data Centers’ Impact on Power Grid
In March 2025, Rep. Tom Mehaffie questioned Public Utility Commission Chairman Stephen Defrank about how data centers and artificial intelligence will place additional demands on the 13-state power grid.
In March 2025, Rep. Tom Mehaffie questioned Public Utility Commission Chairman Stephen Defrank about how data centers and artificial intelligence will place additional demands on the 13-state power grid.
Rep. Tom Mehaffie spoke out against paper financial statement fees during a committee meeting in March 2025.
Rep. Tom Mehaffie talked to Mary Schaefer Driscoll at Mary’s Health and Fitness, Hummelstown, in January 2025.
Rep. Tom Mehaffie interviewed Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding in January 2025 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show.
Rep. Mehaffie hosted a veterans breakfast in November 2024.
Rob Bair from the PA State Building & Construction Trades Council anticipates plentiful, well-paying jobs at Three Mile Island as the plant is brought back online.
Dave Kitner from Roberto’s Pizza in Middletown experienced a drop-off in business when Three Mile Island shut down production in 2019. He is eager for its return.
Lower Dauphin Communities That Care received financial contributions from the owners of Three Mile Island prior to the plant being taken offline in 2019. The charitable giving made the nonprofit organization’s Books on Board (Bookmobile) program possible. Constellation Energy has committed to $1 million in philanthropy over five years as the plant resumes production.
Londonderry Fire Chief Bart Shellenhamer works with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure yearly training requirements are met for any potential emergency response to Three Mile Island. He described partnering closely with the plant’s staff and being appreciative of past financial contributions, some of which allowed for loan payments on the firehouse’s expansion.
Heat & Frost Insulators Local 23 hosts training and apprenticeship programs in Grantville. Students have had to travel farther since 2019 to meet their training requirements in commercial and industrial settings.
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