Category: Data Centers

Loudoun Times: Loudoun Supervisors deny Goose Creek Overlook’s 238-housing project after earlier support

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

https://www.loudountimes.com/news/loudoun-supervisors-deny-goose-creek-overlooks-238-housing-project-after-earlier-support/article_63cf0426-871a-11eb-ab19-7f0eb6ed1c94.html By Nathaniel Cline ncline@loudountimes.com Mar 17, 2021 Updated Mar 19, 2021 1 of 2 The Goose Creek Outlook property is located south of Dulles Greenway, on both sides of Sycolin Road (Route 625), along the east banks of Goose Creek. Courtesy Image Protestors held signs to save Read More …

Citizen Letter: Done right, Independent Hill plan could add access to PW Forest Park, highlight local history

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/opinion/letter-done-right-independent-hill-plan-could-add-access-to-pw-forest-park-highlight-local/article_b6208c46-820a-11eb-9049-1f65bd4c766d.html?fbclid=IwAR3xAjDCL48sCCrpqjqCaT4VZFTWzigrliyLM4YNToBGCydkGznJeZUNPVE Mar 14, 2021  With the Independent Hill small area plan, we have an opportunity to protect and honor Prince William history while providing an important amenity for residents. For years we’ve heard of plans for a north entrance to Prince William Forest Park. Instead Read More …

Prince William Conservation Alliance: Action Alert: Protect PW Forest (National) Park from Encroaching Development

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

  Action Alert: Protect Prince William Forest Park from Encroachment by Development On Tuesday, March 16, Prince Williams Board of County Supervisors will decide whether to allow construction of a data center campus within the Congressional boundary of Prince William Forest Park. This would negatively Read More …

Prince William Times: Prince William Forest Park raises concerns over Independent Hill development plan

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/prince-william-forest-park-raises-concerns-over-independent-hill-development-plan/article_961f8848-8354-11eb-96df-3734949f5a81.html By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer   Mar 12, 2021 Prince William Forest Park sign   file photo Prince William Forest Park officials are raising concerns about a controversial plan to allow new office and industrial development near the border of the 14,000-acre park that could Read More …

NO! to Data Centers next to Homes and National Parks!

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

The county Board of Supervisors is voting next Tuesday, March 16, on the Independent Hill Small Area Plan.  Included in this plan is a proposal to locate data centers within the legislative boundaries of Prince William Forest National Park, inside the Rural Crescent! Take action now Read More …

Prince William Times: County to look for more land for data centers, including in the ‘rural crescent’

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/county-to-look-for-more-land-for-data-centers-including-in-the-rural-crescent/article_80280700-803d-11eb-9dfc-4767b2594052.html By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer Mar 8, 2021 Updated Mar 8, 2021 Prince William is among the counties with the largest concentration of data centers in the commonwealth. The huge, windowless, box-shaped buildings house computer systems critical for running the internet. Several have been constructed Read More …

Prince William Times: EXCLUSIVE: Massive 800-acre data center deal proposed for ‘rural crescent’

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/exclusive-massive-800-acre-data-center-deal-proposed-for-rural-crescent/article_b09c1858-7b8e-11eb-91bd-e7a7552f8c17.html By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer Mar 2, 2021 Updated Mar 2, 2021 An 800-acre data center campus, dubbed the “PWC Digital Gateway,” is under discussion for a string of properties in Prince William County’s “rural crescent” on land bordering the Manassas National Battlefield Park.courtesy photo/Roger Read More …

Majority of Commissioners protect Rural Crescent and National park!

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

Please send a thank you to Chair Milne, and Commissioners Fontanella, McKay, Berry, and Taylor for voting to deny sprawl-inducing, environment-busting development. The negative consequences of climate change have never been more apparent.  It’s time to get smart and protect our unique environmental assets which Read More …

TAKE ACTION! Data center threat to Rural Crescent and National park

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

For five years this community banded to together to demand Amazon bury their data center extension cord through residential communities.  We didn’t stop there.  We continued our fight, working with the Board of Supervisors, to unanimously adopt a common sense Data Center Overlay District – Read More …

Prince William Times: Data centers must stay in their zone – and out of the rural crescent

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

Oct. 7, 2020 At present, it’s difficult to recall a time when citizens and local government worked collaboratively. Yet, in 2016, that rare event did indeed occur. When an Amazon Data Center’s need for power in the western end of the county resulted in chaos, Read More …

Washington Business Journal: Microsoft adds to its N. Va. data center land holdings

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2020/10/02/microsoft-buys-prince-william-data-center-land.html     Microsoft is buying up large tracts across Loudoun and, now, Prince William counties for data center development. By Michael Neibauer  –  Managing Editor, Washington Business Journal Oct 2, 2020 Updated Oct 2, 2020, 5:49pm EDT   Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is at it again, acquiring 46 acres Read More …