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- Support bills to put guardrails on data center growth!
2024-12-20 - SCC Tech Conference 12/16/24 – Audio quotes and Video links
2024-12-20 - Fox5 12/18/24 Town Hall coverage
2024-12-18 - DC News Now 12/18/24 Town Hall Coverage
2024-12-18 - Bisnow: Highly Anticipated Report Details Virginia’s Data Center Issues, Could Renew Efforts To Curb Industry
2024-12-17 - SCC Forum December 16, 2024 – 9:15 AM
2024-12-01 - Washington Post – As data centers for AI strain the power grid, bills rise for everyday customers
2024-11-01 - Active Infrastructure looks to develop hydrogen-powered data center in Leesburg, Virginia – DCD
2024-10-28 - 5 governors call for PJM capacity market rule changes to reduce ‘unnecessary’ consumer costs | Utility Dive
2024-10-28 - Coal Is Powering the Energy Transition More Than We’d Like to Admit – Bloomberg
2024-10-26 - Dominion Energy’s Deal With Amazon Is A Major Step In Nuclear Energy
2024-10-24 - Amazon’s AI data center dream runs into the reality of ‘zombie’ facilities, higher costs, and labor shortages
2024-10-24 - AI, data center load could drive ‘extraordinary’ rise in US electricity bills: Bain analyst | Utility Dive
2024-10-23 - Virginia energy company bills may increase 50% by 2039 under new plan
2024-10-22 - A showdown over solar is coming to Virginia – Cardinal News
2024-10-21 - Hurricanes Helene And Milton Should Motivate Us To Bury Power Lines
2024-10-20 - Inside Nova: Protect Virginia’s history from data centers
2024-10-03 - American Battlefield Trust: An Update on the Trust’s Legal Challenge at Manassas Battlefield
2024-10-03 - Video: The Big Data Center Water Problem
2024-07-24 - Dominion Energy’s Data Center Demand Forecasting Process
2024-07-18 - Washington Post: Tech firms look for a miracle solution as AI exhausts the power grid
2024-06-21 - Clean Technica: Concerned Citizens Seek Transparency About Data Centers In Virginia
2024-06-14 - PW Times: Most 10th District primary candidates back federal laws for data centers
2024-06-13 - Is Data Center Sprawl an Issue for you? Read Federal Candidates’ Answers to Critical Questions!
2024-06-04 - ABC7/WJLA: Dozens rally against Virginia’s ‘unchecked’ expansion of data centers
2024-06-03 - Virginia Mecury: Virginia Explained: Data Center Expansion, with all its Challenges and Benefits
2024-06-02 - BisNow: Data Centers Projected To Consume Over 6% Of All U.S. Electricity By 2028
2024-05-29 - PW Times: Complaints spark 2nd review of PW Digital Gateway area property values
2024-05-15 - Grist: The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water
2024-05-08 - National Parks Traveler, 2024-05: Foot Soldiers In The Digital Gateway Fight
- Washington Post: Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal
2024-04-17 - ABC7News: Jessica Grove – Fair Taxation of Data Centers
2024-04-10 - yahoo!news: NY Times – The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution.
2024-04-09 - Virginia Mercury: Now what the heck do we do about data centers?
2024-04-03 - WJLA: Citizens protest and Loudoun County Board denies Belmont data center application
2024-03-13 - Bisnow: ‘We Need To Be Careful’: A Wave Of Data Center Legislation In Virginia Is Creating Uncertainty For Developers
2024-03-11 - FERC: RTOInsider – FERC’s Christie Warns of ‘Very Dark Place’
2024-03-10 - New Yorker: The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I.
2024-03-09 - Business Insider: ChatGPT uses 17,000 times the amount of electricity than the average US household does daily: report
2024-03-09 - MSN report: Washington Post – America is running out of electricity as tech companies sap the country’s aging power grid
2024-03-07 - Silverlinings: AWS just went nuclear – and more hyperscalers could follow
2024-03-05 - InsideNoVa: Prince William County’s Planning Commission gets a makeover
2024-03-05 - Next Door: 3/3/24 Man Receives Electric Shock Burn under Transmission Lines along WO&D Trail
2024-03-04 - NBC4: W&OD trail cyclist burned 030324
2024-03-04 - InsideNoVa: Microsoft spends big on data center land near Gainesville
2024-03-04 - Prince William Times: Fauquier supervisor warns about data centers in Vint Hill
2024-03-02 - The Atlantic: AI is Taking Water From the Desert
2024-03-01 - The Nation: The Dirty Energy Fueling Amazon’s Data Gold Rush
2024-02-23 - PW Times: Prince William County is on track to become the world’s largest data center hub
2024-02-22 - The Guardian: Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom
2024-02-15 - Virginia Mercury: State lawmakers want to peel back the curtain at the nation’s biggest electrical grid operator
2024-02-14 - BLOG: Dirty No.Va. Data Centers Cause Failure to Reach Climate Goals
2024-02-14 - BBC.com: Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors
2024-02-14 - Newsweek: Want to Reduce Power Outages? Move Grids Underground, Says Energy Expert
2024-02-13 - Frederick News-Post: Proposed power grid upgrades driven by Va. data centers could cost Marylanders $500M
2024-02-13 - Data Center Dynamics: Nuclear-powered data center campus in Surry, Virginia, gets rezoning approval
2024-02-13 - Bisnow: Huge Data Center Campus Proposed In Virginia Would Test New Guidelines Aimed At Curbing Such Projects
2024-02-12 - MD OPC (Office of People’s Counsel) Protest to FERC
2024-02-09 - Bloomberg: US Energy Firm in Talks To Tap Data Center Generators
2024-02-09 - WJLA-ABC7 – Videos: Bus to Richmond – Data Center Legislation 1/31/24
2024-01-31 - WTTG: Prince William Co. data center opponents travel to Richmond to lobby legislators
2024-01-30 - WJLA-ABC7 – Data Center Legislation & Digital Gateway Lawsuit 1/30/24
2024-01-30 - OilPrice.com: AI Boom Could Slow U.S. Clean Grid Ambitions
2024-01-30 - Eventbrite: Feb. 8 FUNDRAISER
2024-01-27 - Bisnow: ‘An Expensive Lesson’: Data Center Developers Launch Efforts To Gain Support In Hostile Communities
2024-01-21 - ZeroHedge: These Are The 50 Top Power-Consuming Data-Center Markets In The World
2024-01-19 - Fauquier Times: New Fauquier County policy seen as strong deterrent to data centers
2024-01-17 - Loudoun Now: Department of Energy Changes Could Pose More Challenges for Power Line Opponents
2024-01-16 - Virginia Mercury: As data centers continue spreading across Virginia, state lawmakers propose new development rules
2024-01-15 - Potomac Local: Jefferson ‘hopeful’ Prince William ‘will come together’ after data center fight; Vega named pro-tem in rare bi-partisan showing
2024-01-15 - Bisnow: ‘We’re Not Even Close’: Data Center Power Crunch Gets Worse, With No End In Sight
2024-01-15 - LoudounNow: Data Center Campus Plan Hit with Community Power Concerns
2024-01-14 - Coalition to Protect PWC Digital Gateway Lawsuit
2024-01-13 - dcist: Fight Over Major Data Center Project In Prince William County Goes To Court
2024-01-12 - Washington Post: Group files suit over Prince William Digital Gateway data center project
2024-01-12 - WUSA9: Virginia residents launch another lawsuit over data centers
2024-01-12 - Press Conference Facebook Live – 12/12/24 Digital Gateway Lawsuit
2024-01-12 - InsideNoVa: ‘A dystopian hellscape:’ PW Digital Gateway opponents sue to block data center corridor
2024-01-12 - Fox5: Lawsuit filed to protect Manassas Battlefield from massive data center project
2024-01-12 - Financial Times: Resurgent US electricity demand sparks power grid warnings
2024-01-12 - Data Center Legislation Bus to Richmond! Jan. 31
2024-01-12 - American Battlefield Trust (ABT) News Release – Digital Gateway Lawsuit
2024-01-12 - MEDIA ALERT! Press Conference – Friday, Jan 12 – 1:30 PM
2024-01-11 - 2024 Data Center Legislation
2024-01-11 - Prince William Times: New high-voltage transmission line for Gainesville data centers is already facing pushback from activists
2024-01-08 - dcist: Metro, Stadium Deal, Data Centers Among Northern Virginia Issues On The General Assembly Docket
2024-01-04 - InsideNoVa: A new day in Prince William: Deshundra Jefferson steps into her role as county chair
2024-01-04