The governor’s energy plan speaks in terms of how many megawatts of energy we’ll need. Here’s how the various options translate into actual energy production facilities.
Dwayne Yancey
Yancey is founding editor of Cardinal News. His opinions are his own. You can reach him at dwayne@cardinalnews.org or 540-529-1136.
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Governor’s energy plan says a shortage of transmission lines is driving up the cost of power
The report lays out a primer on Virginia’s energy demands, with emphasis on how data centers have broken the business model for supplying electricity. First of two parts.
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44% of the Roanoke Valley’s population growth is in Salem. Roanoke ranks last for attracting newcomers.
A tale of two cities: A look at how demographic changes are reshaping Roanoke and Salem in different ways.
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Republicans push for a gas tax holiday in Virginia. Here are the politics and policies at play.
Many states are responding to high gas prices by waiving gas taxes for a time. Virginia is unlikely to join them. In the meantime, this is a campaign issue.
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What’s our personal data center footprint? We might use 58 to 87 data centers each day.
American life has become digitized. Here’s a look at all the things we do that require “compute” hubs, and how many.
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Virginia has one prominent institution that has no representation from Southwest Virginia. Will that change?
The Virginia Court of Appeals is set to expand from 17 to to 21 members but has only one judge west of Charlottesville and none west of Roanoke.
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The Protect College Sports Act set out to stabilize conference membership, but the ACC is still at risk of being picked apart
The Senate has passed a bill that attempts to rein in spiraling costs, but it leaves room for half the ACC members to jump to other conferences.
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Early voting numbers show a shift toward Democrats. If those hold, two House seats in Virginia could flip, and a third could be close.
The past week has seen forecasters shift their ratings in three Virginia districts, upgrading Democratic chances in each. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has put money into the state to defend Republican seats. Here’s the math driving those moves.
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Taxes from data center electricity helps lower health insurance rates for 200,000 Virginians. There may be a catch to this revenue stream, though.
Democrats celebrated the connection between these two events. However, this could create a scenario where Virginia has a stake in seeing more data centers built.
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Spanberger wants to see data centers generate more power on site
Speaking in Danville at an event sponsored by Cardinal News and the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, the governor also acknowledged that some rural counties have “solar fatigue.”
