Our beautiful state of Viginia is fast becoming an industrial landfill for the Data Center Industry.
Things to note:
- The state of Virginia needs well over 23 gigawatts of power (current demand)
- One nuclear power plant produces merely one gigawatt
- The Digital Gateway alone, from recent reporting, has an estimated load demand of 7 gigawatts
Are we the residents of Virginia willing to sacrifice our homes, our history, our beautiful landscapes for the greed of one industry? And politicians – regardless of pollical affiliation – who benefit from that industry’s donations to their campaigns?
Data centers see pushback across the country (axios.com)
“Threat level: Data centers are also driving a surge in electricity demand — especially amid the rapid growth of new AI tools.
- Utilities now estimate data centers will need nearly 40 gigawatts of additional electricity by 2028, per a December 2023 report from consulting firm Grid Strategies — nearly double their prior guess.
- Barclays researchers see data centers accounting for at least 9% of overall electricity demand by 2030, up from 3.5% today.
- Demand is so high that at least one mothballed nuclear reactor, Pennsylvania’s infamous Three Mile Island, might come back online to power them.
Zoom in: In Northern Virginia, which houses the world’s biggest collection of data centers, some residents are advocating for regulations on what they consider noisy eyesores gobbling up land and power.
- A contentious meeting last year to approve a huge data center complex in Virginia’s Prince William County lasted 27 hours.
- Residents are suing to stop its construction.
What they’re saying: Data centers are “driving up the price of land, and it’s hard for anyone else to compete with them,” says Deshundra Jefferson, chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, who adds that data center pushback helped her get elected.”
The robber barons of this industry have distorted every level of government to fulfill their tech dreams.
In our last blast email, we shared that the Federal DOE was planning for 200 New Nuclear Power Plants to meet the nationwide load demand of data centers.
“The U.S. needs to add 200 gigawatts of nuclear, Goff told CNBC in an interview. This is roughly equivalent to building 200 new plants, based on the current average reactor size in the U.S. fleet of about a gigawatt.”
“Microsoft will purchase electricity from the plant to help power its data centers. Goff said the advent of large data centers that consume up to a gigawatt of electricity only reinforces the need for new reactors.”
“A lot of the data centers are coming in and saying they do need firm, 24/7, baseload clean electricity,” Goff said. “Nuclear is obviously a perfect match for that,” he said.”
In a recent video, we predicted 12 nuclear power plants would be needed just in Virginia. Apparently, we are starting with four.
https://youtu.be/OYSIC4Ansik?si=z19y_T9Nst0Jwtjb
How does this impact you? Look at the Virginia Dept of Energy Press release below. Quantico is on the list now. What’s next for Prince William County as the burgeoning largest data center concentration in the world??
Is MORE coming to Possum Point? We believe Possum Point is in the cross hairs for power generation — Because Possum Point is a retired coal facility, it qualifies for more gas and possible nuclear generation. Don’t believe us? – read this article:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/EQT-Sees-Strong-Data-Center-Driven-Gas-Demand-Growth-by-2030.html
Retired Coal Plants are proposed sites to build new nuclear energy, as outlined in a recent study from the Federal Department of Energy. We know that Possum Point is included in multiple PJM “Dominion Data Center Alley” proposals.
Could the Nation’s Coal Plant Sites Help Drive a Clean Energy Transition? | Department of Energy
“A new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) study finds that hundreds of coal power plant sites across the country could be converted to nuclear power plant sites. This would dramatically increase the supply of firm and dispatchable clean electricity to the grid and deliver huge gains to the nation’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.”
Enough is Enough.
Do something:
- Write Glenn Davis (Va. Dept of Energy)
- Write Governor Glenn Youngkin
- Write Tim Kaine, Mark Warner, Abigail Spanberger, Danica Roem, Josh Thomas, Ian Lovejoy, Dan Helmer, Suhas Subramanyam, Richard Stuart
- Write the Board of Supervisors
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