Dear Coalition Friends and Supporters,
(Take Action Below!)
Can you believe it: The Data Center Coalition wants us to ‘THANK THEM’ for being ‘willing’ to turn on their diesel generators — to protect a grid that THEIR load demand is putting at risk?!
Recent updated calculations identify 10,000 data center diesel generator permits in Northern Virginia alone, located near our homes, our schools, our parks, our daycares, our assisted living communities, and our places of worship …… they are everywhere.
“A single 2MW diesel generator operating at full load emits approximately 45kg of NOx and 1.3kg of PM per hour—equivalent to 350 passenger vehicles”
Look at this:
Click on the Facebook link below to see what it means when Data Centers use their ‘demand response’ program to ‘protect the grid.’ Remember, WE as ratepayers GIVE those high energy users MONEY to run THEIR dirty diesel. Yes – THOSE very same users that are responsible for creating the stress on our grid.
Watch this video: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14Uy6U3tfbE/
If you live near a data center ANYWHERE in Virginia with running Diesel Generators, please fill out this form so we can keep track as VDEQ is not going to be sharing any information with the public.
Resident Report Form: Generators at Loudoun Data Centers – Intellistack
SEE BELOW ACTION ITEMS THAT NEED YOUR ATTENTION
ACTION:
->We need YOU to get on the bus to Richmond February 9th: Data Center Reform Lobby Day. Sign up NOW!
There ARE still some seats left! Don’t miss out on YOUR opportunity to be a part of a movement that history will surely remember. You may be feeling it’s not worth it to go to Richmond, or to send emails — but the reality is that showing up DOES have an impact. Whether it’s getting a bill passed this year, or bringing visibility to the legislature, the media, and the general public that citizens aren’t going to stop until needed changes are made – now, and the next year, and the next year…
ACTION:
->We need YOU to send letters to the General Assembly House and Senate members SUPPORTING or OPPOSING KEY data center related bills.
The Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition has 18 KEY bills that need YOUR support or opposition. Click on each link below to add your name. Tell the legislature which of these bills YOU want them to Vote YES on, and what bills YOU want them to Vote NO on.
There are numerous data center related bills right now in the General Assembly this year. We’ve done all the work to assemble the legislators’ email addresses for the 18 KEY BILLS that are already in committee or subcommittee, made it easy for you to add your name and address so that they will see it, and then just hit SEND!
**We expect that this will be the largest bunch of emails that will have to be addressed, since the General Assembly is now in full swing.**
You can go to this page to click on EACH orange ‘SIGN’ button and complete your information for each. (Just click the back arrow at the top (highlighted in yellow below) after completing each one, and do the next one.)
OR
Use the links here to enter your information in each one:
SUPPORT:
HB 155 – HB 1151 – HB 284 – HB 507 – HB 658 – HB 897 – HB 589 – HB 496 – SB 619 – SB 371 – SB 43 – SB 339 – SB 465 – SB 553
OPPOSE:
HB 466 – HB 889 – SB 310 – SB 497
We will provide future click-to-send emails as more of these individual KEY BILLS progress to committee or subcommittee.
If you want to know the content of any of the bills currently in the General Assembly, access the bill tracker list on the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) site: 2026 Data Center Reform Legislation – The Piedmont Environmental Council. Of course, use their complete list if you want to send your own email on any additional bills!
**We are excited about ALL the bills to support, but this one below is of particular importance. It was just released — and WOW!**
HB1515 – 2026 Regular Session | LIS
HB1515
Status: Committee Referral Pending Local approval of data centers; temporary moratorium.
Patron
Introduced by: Irene Shin (Chief Patron)
Summary As Introduced
Local approval of data centers; temporary moratorium. Prohibits final approval of any application for a rezoning, special exception, special use permit, site plan, or plan of development for the siting of a new data center by a locality until the earlier of (i) the fulfillment of all pending requests for interconnection to distribution service by an electric utility customer that is a data center or (ii) July 1, 2028.
This bill hasn’t yet gone to any committee. We will add another click-to-send when it does, so that all of us can write showing our support.
We need YOU to know that only YOU can make a difference.
Only ALL OF US can apply that pressure to our elected leaders to adopt oversight that will save our past, our present, and our future.
Each day more and more Virginians are reeling from the impacts of the data center industry on their daily lives. Sooooooo…
You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee
And get yourself free
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