Category: Data Centers

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 …

Prince William Times: Supervisors to consider bi-county parkway, more data centers as part of COVID-19 economic boost

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer The Prince William Board of County Supervisors will consider a proposal Tuesday to resurrect the bi-county parkway and expand the county’s data center overlay district as part of an economic development plan aimed at boosting a local economy struggling Read More …

Bob Weir letter to Planning Commissioners: Independent Hill Small Area Plan

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

Last Night’s PC Worksession Dear Chairman Milne: With each meeting, I have become increasingly concerned by the behavior of the Planning Office staff and particularly the Acting Planning Director, Deputy County Executive Horner. Last night’s worksession regarding the Independent Hill Small Area Plan served to Read More …

Prince William Times: Planning commission voices concern over plan some say could open the ‘rural crescent’ to data centers

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer The proposed Independent Hill Small Area plan Planning Commissioners went back and forth Wednesday over concerns about the Independent Hill Small Area Plan – a proposal that aims to lay the foundation for new development along the Va. 234 Read More …

Coalition Letter to Planning Commissioners: Independent Hill Small Area Plan

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

Dear Commissioners,  It’s easy to forget important historical lessons when the crisis is in your rear view mirror.  But for those of us that lived it, and fought against inappropriate data center placement, and advocated for a smart policy moving forward, we thought it important Read More …

URGENT ACTION: Haymarket Transmission Line 2.0?!

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

We have some pretty stunning news to share.  In fact, it truly boggles the mind. Our current Board of Supervisors will be deciding next Tuesday, December 10, whether to approve ‘by right’ zoning for a proposed Gainesville Crossing data center campus.  This is on land Read More …

Send Email: Please Defer the Gainesville Crossing data center

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

Access and add your own personal message by clicking on “Read or Edit the Petition” in the yellow banner at the top of the form below. We have provided some introductory sentences, but intentionally left the remaining space blank so that you can type in your Read More …

Derecho Blogspot: This Does Not Compute

Posted onAuthorKaren Sheehan

https://thederecho.blogspot.com/2019/12/this-does-not-compute.html Next week, just as the lame duck BOCS heads for the door, it will consider the Gainesville Crossing rezoning application for a data center complex outside of the Data Center Opportunity Zone.  The applicant asserts that the 4.5 million square foot facility will generate Read More …