State legislators have presented nearly 30 bills related to data center regulation. Gov. Abigail Spanberger has already expressed the need to make sure that the facilities’ energy costs aren’t passed on to other customers.
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Posted inEconomy
Data center campus announced for Wythe County
Some details have yet to be finalized, but the project will be developed in the county’s Progress Park. Officials say it will bring high-tech, high-wage jobs to the region.
Posted inEconomy
‘You could never count’ the amount of digital information stored in data centers
The cloud isn’t really a cloud. It’s servers inside data centers, many of them in Virginia. And all of our cat videos and medical records and purchasing data take up billions of bytes of storage.
Posted inEconomy
Google buys Botetourt County land for data center plans
The tech giant paid $14 million for 312 acres in a county industrial park and will contribute another $4 million toward community projects. It did not provide a timeline for the project or say how large the data center would be.
Posted inPolitics
Youngkin vetoes bill to require site assessments for data centers
The bill would have mandated examining sound volume within 500 feet of schools and residences, along with measuring potential effects on ground and surface water, agriculture resources, parks, registered historic sites and forest land on or around proposed facilities.
Posted inEconomy
Pittsylvania rejects data center project that has dominated county conversation for 6 months
The board also denied Balico’s last-minute request to withdraw its rezoning application without penalty, which would have let the company resubmit another plan at any time.
Posted inEconomy
Company official says Microporous on schedule in Pittsylvania after questions about federal funding
A January executive order froze federal funds to some energy-related projects, but Microporous still expects to receive $100 million in federal funding.
Posted inEconomy
Balico withdraws data center proposal for Pittsylvania after months of resident pushback and vote postponements
The company said it is considering other options for the 750-acre property, including a residential development. An eventual data center project is not completely off the table, according to a statement.
Posted inRedbird
A grassroots fight against data centers builds in rural Pittsylvania County
Residents fear that the cultural fabric of their rural community would be forever changed by the arrival of massive data center projects.
Posted inRedbird
Energy demand will outstrip supply in Virginia as data centers proliferate
Data center-driven demand is expected to double in a decade and continue rising. Experts are raising the alarm.
