Year: 2026
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Virginia Mercury: Data centers and AI: a rare and raw issue in Virginia for this midterm election
Virginia Mercury looks at how data centers and AI have become a rare, emotionally charged issue in this year’s midterm elections. Elena Schlossberg, who began battling data centers near her home in western Prince William County in 2014, is profiled and quoted, including on U.S. Sen. Mark Warner beco
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Podcast: The Data Centers Are Coming, Bonus Ep. 2 – Fighting for Our Lives – ILSR / Building Local Power
Bonus episode of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Building Local Power series. A trip to Nashville shows where the data center fight is headed and how Big Tech’s efforts to divide people are uniting a region. Elena Schlossberg of Data Center Alley is a featured voice: “It is a local fight, it
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Video: Balancing Act with John Katko, Ep. 132 – Data Centers: Boon or Burden? – PBS / WCNY
Host John Katko is joined by data center energy expert Jonathan Koomey, community advocate Elena Schlossberg and Data Center Coalition policy executive Dan Diorio to examine why data centers are expanding so rapidly and whether their economic and technological benefits outweigh the impact on local c
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What Governor Spanberger’s Executive Order Does – and Does NOT Do
Dear Coalition Supporters and Friends – You might be thinking Governor Spanberger’s press release is fantastic, right? You might feel like the calvary has arrived. But not so fast. If you are not sure what to think about Governor Spanberger’s Data Center Executive Order, we Read More …
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ALERT: Reject Vint Hill Switching Station Upgrade
Alert Vint Hill Station upgrade
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InsideNoVa: Prince William supervisors defer ‘Project Industry’ data center proposal
InsideNoVa reports that the Prince William Board of County Supervisors deferred the “Project Industry” data center application, which involves a six-acre electric substation. Elena Schlossberg, executive director of the Coalition to Protect Prince William County, is quoted by text message after the
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Dominion-NextEra merger Coalition Press Statement
Coalition_Press_Statement Dominion-NextEra merger SCC case 090826
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The Declaration of Virginia!
Dear Coalition Friends and Supporters, Do NOT become immune to what is happening in Prince William — AND the entire state of Virginia. We are experiencing an onslaught of data center industrialization like no other place on earth. Apathy must be resisted. NO locality has Read More …
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A Virginia Declaration
Virginia Declaration
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TUNE IN: Process Issues and More Data Centers!
Dear Coalition Friends and Supporters, This email is going to require some careful reading. We have identified significant process issues in multiple applications coming before the Board. Some of the applications will be heard on Tuesday. Process in planning is the boring stuff of land use Read