BISNOW: Loudoun County Wears The Global Data Center Crown, But All Is Not Well In The Kingdom

Loudoun County Wears The Global Data Center Crown, But All Is Not Well In The Kingdom (bisnow.com) (free registration/login required to access BISNOW articles) February 20, 2022 Dan Rabb and Jon Banister For decades, Loudoun County has housed the largest concentration of data centers in the world Read More …

Opinion: Foundation pitched by data center developers an inducement to defile – Prince William TImes

LETTER: Foundation pitched by data center developers an inducement to defile | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com Ever heard of a wolf in sheep’s clothing? The latest incarnation comes in the deceptive form of the Pageland Philanthropic Foundation. It’s the latest act of benevolence from our civic-minded Read More …

InsideNoVa: Loudoun cool to data center expansion near Pageland Lane proposal

Loudoun cool to data center expansion near Pageland Lane proposal | Headlines | insidenova.com A proposal to direct data center projects to around 2,000 acres in southeastern Loudoun County appears to be a nonstarter among elected officials who want to limit industrial development in the Read More …

Opinion: Data centers belong in industrial zones – Prince William Times

LETTER: Data centers belong in industrial zones | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com On a recent county land use poll, 71% of Prince William County residents responded mightily that they wanted to preserve rural land and historically sensitive areas! Why then are the Prince William County planners Read More …

Opinion: Stop bullies and corruption from taking the Virginia we love – Prince William Times

LETTER: Stop bullies and corruption from taking the Virginia we love | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com I love Virginia and what we have here. I have only left Virginia four times. Virginia has always been “home” — and everything that means. I am watching bullies and Read More …

Opinion: County’s draft comprehensive plan ignores resident input – Prince William Times

LETTER: County’s draft comprehensive plan ignores resident input | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com The Prince William County Planning Office and staff are clueless. We participated in charettes, community planning sessions, taken survey after survey and the planning office has ignored EVERYTHING we as a community proposed. Read More …

MIT: The staggering ecological impacts of computation and the cloud

The staggering ecological impacts of computation and the cloud – MIT Schwarzman College of Computing The Cloud is not only material, but is also an ecological force. Source image: Taylor Vick, via Unsplash Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic Read More …

Opinion: Development ideas suggest a race to the bottom for Prince William: Prince William Times

LETTER: Development ideas suggest a race to the bottom for Prince William | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com February 11, 2022 I didn’t think it was possible for remotely responsible government officials to lend legitimacy to any half-baked idea more obscene than the Prince William Digital Gateway.” Read More …

Data Center Dynamics: Prince William County environmental report recommends ditching 2,000 acre data center plans

Prince William County environmental report recommends ditching 2,000 acre data center plans – DCD (datacenterdynamics.com) Rural crescent data center park would harm forests, streams and wildlife December 22, 2021 By Peter Judge Environmental officials at Prince William County have asked the board of supervisors to Read More …

InsideNoVa: Prince William planners propose easing land-use policies, including in rural crescent

By Nolan Stout Feb 8, 2022 Prince William County planners are proposing to ease some of the decades-old policies restricting development in rural areas. The county has published a draft version of the land-use chapter of its Comprehensive Plan update, along with a long-range land-use Read More …

Prince William Times: QTS confirms its interest in the proposed ‘PW Digital Gateway’

QTS confirms its interest in the proposed ‘PW Digital Gateway’ | News | princewilliamtimes.com Kansas-based firm is the first to reveal plans to acquire land near the Manassas battlefield for a new data center By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer Feb 8, 2022 QTS data Read More …

ALL of US are FIGHTING for the FUTURE of this ENTIRE County!

Remember when our new board supervisors ran on “eliminating the rural crescent?” Neither do we. Among the most significant changes outlined in the draft Pathway to 2040 Comprehensive Plan update, released to the citizens on 2/2/22: the elimination of the county’s rural area designation from the map, Read More …

Opinion: Something bad is happening in Gainesville – Prince William TImes

LETTER: Something bad is happening in Gainesville | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com Something is happening in Gainesville, and it isn’t anything positive! Within the last two years, 15 Data Center buildings have been approved within three-quarter mile radius of Heritage Hunt, and there is the possibility Read More …

Letter: Data center plan’s consequences must be studied – Prince William Times

LETTER: Data center plan’s consequences must be studied | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com The Prince William Digital Gateway application is fraught with misconceptions and ignorance of the consequences, and this is unlikely to be an issue in isolation. If protecting our forests, parks, reservoirs and open Read More …