News coverage of the Coalition and the issues it works on, 937 items from 2014 to 2026 plus 27 headline news items. This year’s coverage is below; earlier years each have their own page.
Featured coverage
France 2 / franceinfo · 2026-11-03
Face aux data centers, des électeurs de Donald Trump prêts à changer de camp
“Cette industrie se propage comme un cancer” (this industry spreads like a cancer)
E&E News by POLITICO · 2026-07-01
‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution
“Either way, we are screwed. Either our lights go out or we get to breathe in this pollution.”
Australian Financial Review · 2026-08-12
An AI activist was about to enter the lion’s den. Then this happened
A profile of Elena Schlossberg’s warning to South Australia’s Premier about data centres.
Fortune · 2025-12-16
A NIMBY revolt is turning voters in Republican strongholds against the AI data-center boom
“If you live near a data center that’s being powered by these gas turbines, you simply cannot imagine living there.”
Business Insider · 2023-12-21
The Coming Tsunami of AI Data Centers
Elena Schlossberg gives the reporter a tour of the Digital Gateway land.
Headline News
- Dominion Large Load SCC case 021026
2026-02-11 - Media Alert: Leading Conservation Groups file Amicus Brief Opposing World’s Largest Data Center Campus
2024-10-05 - Virginia Mercury: Up for a vote in this election: clean energy, data centers and utility influence
2023-10-04 - Prince William Times: County chair seeks to set all 3 PW Digital Gateway votes during board’s ‘lame duck’ period
2023-09-14 - Resolution 23-356 FAILED – Moratorium for Lame-Duck Decisions on Contentious Land-use Cases
2023-07-12 - Kevin Coyle: Media Coverage of PWC Opposition to Data Center Takeover
2023-06-25 - Presentation: Data center companies taking over Gainesville, Bristow, and PW County
2023-06-09 - Sanders Lane Data Center Assemblage
2023-04-16 - Industrial Blight flyer 010422
2022-01-04 - Maps & Detail Flyer 010722
2022-01-04 - Supervisor Lawson: Alert! Data Centers in Rural Crescent
2021-07-19 - Gainesville Crossing data center power need
2019-11-14 - Gainesville Crossing data center rezoning request
2019-11-14 - Dominion: Motion to Hold Proceeding in Abeyance for 60 Days and for Expedited Conveyance – 7/24/17
2017-07-24 - SCC: Order Directing Additional Pleadings 7/24/17
2017-07-24 - Motions for Rehearing or Reconsideration – 7/13/17
2017-07-13 - Somerset Crossing Responds to SCC Commissioners’ Interim Ruling
2017-04-30 - County Testimony to SCC 5/10/16
2016-05-13 - SCC probing Wheeler, New Rd. routes and asking DVP other hard-hitting questions
2016-05-07 - SCC Hearing shut down by high school custodial staff – Police escort citizens out of building…..?!
2016-05-03 - SCC Local Hearings Testimony Documents
2016-03-28 - Exciting Updates!
2016-03-23 - Feb. 24th SCC Local Hearing Testimony
2016-03-15 - SCC Approves Transmission Grid Improvements in Fauquier and Prince Willaim Counties
2016-02-13 - Nov. 5, 2015 – Dominion Power Notice to PW Supervisors Concerning Preferred Route…
2015-11-05 - SCC (State Corporation Commission) Transmission Line Process
2015-10-15 - Questions about Amazon’s Massive Water Usage
2015-08-18
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2026 (91)
- franceinfo / France 2, 2026-11-03: Face aux data centers, des électeurs de Donald Trump prêts à changer de camp
“Cette industrie se propage comme un cancer (this industry spreads like a cancer)” - Prince William Times, 2026-10-30: Local activists call for data center “pause”
- InsideNoVa, 2026-10-30: Prince William residents call for 12-month pause on data center approvals
- Virginia Mercury: Data centers and AI: a rare and raw issue in Virginia for this midterm election
2026-10-19 - Podcast: The Data Centers Are Coming, Bonus Ep. 2 – Fighting for Our Lives – ILSR / Building Local Power
2026-10-15 - Video: Balancing Act with John Katko, Ep. 132 – Data Centers: Boon or Burden? – PBS / WCNY
2026-10-09 - InsideNoVa: Prince William supervisors defer 'Project Industry' data center proposal
2026-09-10 - Prince William Times: Perfect storm: Drought, data centers and NDAs
2026-08-12 - Australian Financial Review, 2026-08-12: An AI activist was about to enter the lion’s den. Then this happened
- Prince William needs Master Planning, not Fragmentary Growth – InsideNoVa Opinion
2026-08-09 - Podcast: Can Data Centers be Done Right – On with Kara Swisher – Apple Podcasts
2026-08-09 - Prince William Times: Should data centers pay billions for transmission lines?
2026-07-28 - InsideNoVa: Dominion's Nokesville-Bristow transmission line generates fervor at community open house
2026-07-27 - Power Line Failure Exposes AI Data Center Grid Vulnerability – The Tech Buzz
2026-07-25 - Emails show how Virginia regulators downplayed data center health concerns – Politico
2026-07-25 - WVTF (Radio IQ): Candidates wrestle with the data center issue on the campaign trail
2026-07-24 - Press Conference: Nokesville Bristow Transmission Line – This Thursday!
2026-07-22 - Dominion Energy drops proposed route for Virginia power line project – Fox5
2026-07-22 - Nokesville transmission line – a clarion call to action for ALL Prince William Residents
2026-07-19 - Nokesville Blue and Light Blue transmission line resolution 071426
2026-07-18 - It’s a party! Come celebrate! August 2nd!
2026-07-18 - Say NO to Costly Housing Sprawl — Say YES to Rural Areas and Rural Economic Development
2026-07-16 - Prince William Times: The Big Bottleneck: Power crunch keeps data centers in the dark
2026-07-16 - General Trimbles assemblage CPA 071526
2026-07-15 - Catharpin Valley Estates assemblage CPA 071526
2026-07-15 - Say NO to Costly Sprawl — Say YES to Rural Areas and Rural Economic Development
2026-07-14 - Death of the Digital Gateway Signals the Beginning of the End
2026-07-12 - Virginia Mercury: Prince William supervisors reject Dulles Cloud South data center proposal
2026-07-09 - Patch: Prince William County Supervisors Unanimously Reject Massive New Data Center Plan
2026-07-08 - WTOP: Prince William Co. supervisors deny 2,000-acre Dulles South data center plans
2026-07-07 - WJLA: Prince William County Board of Supervisors rejects plans for 2,000-acre data center
2026-07-07 - Supervisor Boddye Dulles South Closing Comments 070726
2026-07-07 - InsideNoVa: Massive Dulles South data center plans coming before Prince William supervisors amid local outcry
2026-07-06 - PRESS RELEASE: Rally & Press Conference against Dulles Cloud South July 7 1PM McCoart Bldg
2026-07-05 - PRESS RELEASE email: Rally & Press Conference against Dulles Cloud South July 7, 1 PM
2026-07-05 - WVTF: Neighbors, preservationists cheer defeat of data center project
2026-07-03 - Data Center Dynamics: QTS drops data center appeal, kills gigawatt PW Digital Gateway project in Virginia
2026-07-03 - UPDATES: Dulles Cloud South: Digital Gateway ‘Part Deux’ – But Worse!
2026-07-02 - QTS abandons Digital Gateway lawsuit – Va. Supreme Court filings
2026-07-02 - BREAKING NEWS: Digital Gateway is Dead! QTS withdraws!
2026-07-02 - Financial Times, 2026-07-02: Blackstone’s QTS halts Virginia data centre project (FT Chinese edition)
“It’s an exceptional feat; this community is very special” (translated) - E&E News by POLITICO, 2026-07-01: ‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution
“Either way, we are screwed. Either our lights go out or we get to breathe in this pollution.” - Podcast: The Data Centers Are Coming, Ep. 6 – Closing Arguments – ILSR / Building Local Power
2026-06-25 - Video: Northern Virginia residents and lawmakers sound off on data centers in town hall – WJLA ABC7
2026-06-15 - The National, 2026-06-14: US campaigner warns Scotland about AI data centre boom
“If you want to keep Scotland beautiful, you should run like a plague is approaching you from this industry” - PWC Data Center Listening Tour!
2026-06-13 - Broadband Breakfast, 2026-06-03: Yearslong Data Center Dispute Heads to Virginia Supreme Court
“Shame on QTS and their parent company Blackstone for holding this community hostage.” - Podcast: The Data Centers Are Coming, Ep. 4 – Transmission (Im)possible – ILSR / Building Local Power
2026-05-28 - Vantage Gas Turbines – Video
2026-05-16 - Vantage Diesel Generators – Video
2026-05-16 - Podcast: The Data Center Next Door – Reveal (Center for Investigative Reporting / PRX)
2026-05-16 - Was QTS caught “Self Serving” water from Fayette County Water System in Georgia??
2026-05-05 - WJLA: Legal battle over massive data center campus continues after last-minute appeal
2026-05-03 - Video: She Spent 12 Years Fighting Amazon. Now She Wants to Cut the Power to AI. – For Humanity #84
2026-05-02 - QTS Blackstone Digital Gateway Appeal to VA Supreme Court
2026-05-01 - BREAKING NEWS – QTS files 11th hour appeal
2026-05-01 - Podcast: The Data Centers Are Coming, Ep. 1 – Planting a Flag – ILSR / Building Local Power
2026-04-30 - Video: Support for data centres plummets in industry 'capital' | Elena Schlossberg – The Tech Report
2026-04-21 - Podcast: The Data Centers Are Coming – teaser – ILSR / Building Local Power
2026-04-16 - VIDEO: BOCS Digital Gateway lawsuit withdrawal vote 041426
2026-04-14 - BREAKING NEWS: PWC Board WITHDRAWS from Digital Gateway lawsuit
2026-04-14 - Video: Prince William Digital Gateway Press Conference – April 7, 2026 – Prince William Conservation Alliance
2026-04-08 - InsideNoVa: 'An opportunity to right their wrong:' Digital Gateway opponents urge Prince William County to end appeals
2026-04-08 - Press Conference – BOCS: PWC Withdraw from Digital Gateway Lawsuit
2026-04-06 - PWC BOCS: WITHDRAW from the Digital Gateway lawsuit
2026-04-01 - Digital Gateway lawsuit Appellate Court decision 033126
2026-04-01 - Fox 5: Court blocks 'Digital Gateway' data center project
2026-03-31 - Prince William Times, 2026-03-31: BREAKING: Digital Gateway suffers another blow in court
“We won. Never underestimate what a small group of citizens can do.” - Video: Audacious Nimby Video Podcast Ep. 5 – Featuring Elena Schlossberg of the Coalition to Protect Prince William County
2026-03-08 - The Progressive, 2026-03-04: Resisting the Data Center Boom
“The advantage that everybody has now—that we did not have—are all the facts” - Fox 5: Prince William County residents sue over plan to develop major data center
2026-02-24 - Digital Gateway Appeal – This Tuesday, February 24 – 1 PM
2026-02-21 - Video: Data center battle pits Big Tech against local homeowners – Fox News Channel, America's Newsroom
2026-02-20 - Wall Street Journal: Big Tech Is Buying Up America's Land—and Home Builders Can't Compete
2026-02-18 - WTOP: New interactive tool tracks data centers across Prince William. Who is it helping?
2026-02-16 - PRESS RELEASE: Data Center Reform Lobby Day – February 9 in Richmond: 2026 General Assembly – St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – 8AM-2PM
2026-02-05 - InsideNoVa: Prince William residents turn out en masse for congressman's data center town hall
2026-02-03 - Interview: Data center industrial proliferation impacts on ‘America At Night’
2026-01-29 - Diesel Generator Noise-Pollution 012526
2026-01-27 - NO TIME TO WASTE! Get on the Bus Feb. 9 – Send YOUR Letters
2026-01-26 - Grist, 2026-01-26: How data center backers are selling promises of jobs and clean energy
“There’s no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.” - UPDATE: Vint Hill Substation Application DEFERRED – Jan. 20 Evening BOCS Meeting CANCELLED
2026-01-19 - Be Bold – Say NO to Vint Hill Gas Insulated Substation
2026-01-17 - Poll: 92% of Virginians Say Lawmakers Must Do More to Control Data Center Impacts
2026-01-16 - ABC7 News Jan 16, 2026 – Videos
2026-01-16 - Momentum is Growing – Make the Data Centers Pay THEIR Share!
2026-01-11 - Inside NoVa: Prince William has spent $1.6M defending Digital Gateway
2026-01-09 - Video: The Anderson Hour | Data Centers-Elena Schlossberg – WGTE Public Media
2026-01-07 - Breaking News – For Immediate Release
2026-01-07 - Amicus Brief – Digital Gateway Court of Appeals – Jan. 5, 2026
2026-01-07 - PEC: It’s Time for Virginia to Pause Data Center Approvals
2026-01-05