Dear Coalition Friends and Supporters,
The bill requiring a Temporary Moratorium on local approval of Data Centers comes up for a vote in the House Rules Committee TOMORROW MORNING!
–> Go HERE to sign up to speak virtually at the committee hearing tomorrow morning. Keep your comments short ie: “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I support HB 1515 – VOTE YES!”
–> Sign our easy click to send with the same simple and direct message NOW: HB 1515.
**Tell the delegates you want them to VOTE YES!**
- This bill will put in place a temporary moratorium on any new local data center approvals until existing pending requests for interconnection to the grid have been fulfilled.
- Provides a critically needed pause OF anything additional to allow for the orderly and fair connection of existing pending load.
- This will not stop data center development but will prevent more projects piling up in an already flooded queue.
- A moratorium will also reduce land speculation for data center development by sending a clear signal to the industry that there is a deficit of power here in Virginia.
- Offers a practical and reasonable approach that will help to reduce speculative and sprawling data center development in the Virginia real estate market.
- Go HERE if you want to know more.
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–> Go HERE to add your name supporting all the other CRITICAL bills!
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–> Get on the bus to Richmond February 9th: Data Center Reform Lobby Day. Sign up NOW – Only 8 seats left!
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You may be feeling it’s not worth it to go to Richmond, or to send emails.
The reality is that YOUR action to speak or add your signature IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE. Your advocacy is causing legislators to act, to improve legislation.
Whether it’s getting a bill passed this year or bringing visibility to the legislature: Citizens aren’t going to stop until needed changes are made – now, and the next year, and the next year…
YOU ARE HAVING AN IMPACT!
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