New billion-dollar transmission lines for data centers are prompting protests over their routes and a debate in Richmond over who should pay. Elena Schlossberg, who led the 2016 effort to make Amazon pay for a 6-mile transmission line to its Haymarket data center, is featured and quoted (“It’s about damn time”) and is pictured at the July 24 rally in Nokesville.
Originally published 2026-07-28 at https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/localnews/big-question-should-data-centers-pay-for-billion-dollar-transmission-lines/article_89af09ab-cd4c-57e9-8a51-543b6f8b1749.html. Summary written for this site from the original; full text at the source.