Webinar: DataCenter Supply Chain opportunities for local manufacturing

From our friends at Reimagine Appalachia:

The communities that agree to host new data center facilities should lock down good-paying jobs as part of the deal. Manufacturing could be key to this.

Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026 at 1 pm ET via Zoom – Join us to hear experts discuss how AI Data Centers’ construction needs could create new markets for small- and medium-sized manufacturers in Appalachia. Facilities need steel racks, utility- scale batteries, and more. Let’s figure out how these needs can be supplied (sustainably) by local manufacturers!

Guest presenters will include…

Petra Mitchell, President and CEO, Catalyst Connection
Deborah Stine, Founder, Science and Technology Policy Academy

Register here

I hope you can join us!

Bay Epperly,

ReImagine Appalachia

P.S. I just wrote an op-ed for the Herald-Dispatch exploring how Huntington, West Virginia, can revive its status as a manufacturing leader to build community wealth and help reverse regional youth outmigration. Please give it a read here!