Data Center
Regulator approves electricity transmission line, towers in Alexandria to serve one data center
Bren Pointe residents in Fairfax County are closer to seeing steel transmission towers rise just outside their townhomes after Virginia’s regulators approved a new electricity line to serve a single planned commercial data center.
Loudoun County neighbors fight proposed Dominion transmission lines for Data Center Alley
As the demand to pump power to energy-thirsty data centers concentrated in Northern Virginia swells, a debate about where to put towering high-powered transmission lines in populated areas has put one Loudoun County community on the defensive.
Dominion Substations to Support Dulles Area Data Centers
Fairfax County Planning Commission , at its meeting on July 9,, approved Dominion Energy’s request for two new substations that will support future data centres in the Dulles region.
Virginia’s Energy Future
According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics American manufacturing jobs have dropped from an all-time high in 1979 of 19.6 million to 12.8...
Loudoun County Supervisors shake up data centre regulations
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday night on major changes to the way the county regulates Data Centers. They eliminated them as an by-right usage.
Charles City County to get 500-acre campus for data center
Diode Ventures, a Kansas-based company, recently submitted plans to county Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors for rezone 515 acres approximately 20 miles east of Richmond in order to create a datacenter campus named Roxbury Technology Park.
NAACP leaders’ top legislative concerns include solar development and environmental justice
Naomi Hodge Muse, President of the NAACP Henry County - Martinsville Chapter, urges state legislators to take into consideration the impact that widespread adoption of solar energy will have on small and less wealthy communities.
Dominion reveals the true cost of data centers from pressure by the SCC
Ever since data centers started spreading across the Virginia landscape like an invasive pest, one important question has remained unanswered: How much does the industry’s insatiable demand for energy impact other utility customers?