Dear Coalition Friends,
This issue isn’t complicated. We are being engulfed by the unprecedented expansion of the data center industry in every way. Which begs the question: Why would this board vote for ANY DATA CENTER outside the Data Center Overlay District?
It’s not just their immediate physical building footprint, but now the SIX transmission lines that are slicing their way via a myriad of routes through our communities, in both Brentsville and Gainesville.
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Tell the Supervisors to vote NO to Bristow on June 24.
Show up or speak remotely at the Board meeting 7 PM – June 24.
1 County Complex Ct.
Prince William, VA 22192
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Sign up here by 5 pm on Monday, June 23 to speak remotely.
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We have been warning our elected leaders for years that the cost is too high — not just literally with our rising utility bills, but also to our immediate quality of life, with many losing their property to eminent domain for data center transmission line infrastructure.
The AI infrastructure race hits a political reality check | Utility Dive
“The reality check: Competing demands and mounting pressure”
“The boom in AI-driven data center development has created unprecedented demand for land, electricity and water; a dynamic that has spawned growing opposition from communities, utility grid operators, wary regulators and environmental advocates.”
“Power consumption is perhaps the most widely discussed concern — a dominant topic at the recently held CERA Week, and one that hits most residents directly. A single data center can use as much electricity as a mid-sized U.S. city. Utilities in states like Virginia, Illinois and Utah are struggling to meet soaring demand, raising concerns about grid reliability and equitable access to energy.”
The Bristow Data Center Campus is just joining a long list of inappropriate applications.
What happened to Activity Centers, like Bristow, intended to create local job growth; live, work and play environments with housing and a sense of community?
We can all plainly see, data center sprawl isn’t creating a sense of community — IT IS DESTROYING COMMUNITY.
Data centers bring money to small towns. But do they also bring jobs? : NPR
I Live 400 Yards From Mark Zuckerberg’s Massive Data Center – You Tube
The Bristow Data Center campus – coming up for Board of Supervisor vote on June 24 – is just bad and wrong on too many fronts.
Their promises of trails and open space? Even if it were believable, it isn’t worth the trade. Routes for MORE new transmission lines, if approved, could be placed along the new trails that were just ‘dedicated’ by Stack.
BREAKING NEWS TODAY: In a Dominion Energy stakeholder meeting on June 18, Dominion disclosed the routing for the NEW Nokesville transmission line routing includes the as-yet-to-be-approved Bristow Campus. Our fears have been confirmed regarding the open space being utilized for transmission lines. Here is the transmission line that will possibly be snaking its way through these trails.
During this meeting, Rachel from ERM, when discussing the Nokesville routing that will begin from a substation in Nokesville and terminate into the Hornbaker substation. During the routing impact discussion, she brought up the proposed Bristow Data Center Campus application and said this:
“Once we get past here, then we enter the Bristow Data Center Campus, which is before the Board on Tuesday. So, we will see what happens with that… If Bristow doesn’t get approved, currently our footprint where it kind of enters Bristow switching station… if that doesn’t go forward, we can adjust, but it’s (currently) based on their (Bristow Data Center campus) footprint.”
Bristow Data Center Campus application circled in Red below.
This map represents multiple routes being considered for the new Nokesville transmission line:
It is CRITICAL to understand: The Board’s vote on the Bristow Campus will have a DIRECT impact on homes impacted by yet ANOTHER power extension cord to feed the insatiable appetite of data center power needs. How this new Nokesville transmission line slices through our communities will be impacted if this Board approves the Bristow Data Center Campus.
We, the Prince William community members, are saying it’s time to draw a line in the sand when it comes to data center approvals.
We applaud the Chair and Supervisors Gordy, Vega, and Weir for keeping their promise to vote NO on Bristow.
We look to other Supervisors to see the light and vote NO as well.
Please use this easy click to send email putting the Supervisors on notice that you expect them to vote NO to the Bristow Data Center campus on June 24.
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Show up or speak remotely at the Board meeting 7 PM – June 24.
1 County Complex Ct.
Prince William, VA 22192
View Map Get Directions
Sign up here by 5 pm on Monday, June 23 to speak remotely.
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