PW Times: Most 10th District primary candidates back federal laws for data centers
Most 10th District primary candidates back federal laws for data centers | News | princewilliamtimes.com
Category: Dominion Power
JUNE 12 – Data Center “Extension Cord” Meeting – Cuts through Gainesville
Dear Coalition supporters and neighbors, We apologize for missing in our most recent blast email a critical upcoming meeting NEXT WEEK: DOMINION ENERGY – DAVES STORE TRANSMISSION LINE Wednesday, June 12, 2024 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Bull Run Middle School 6308 Catharpin Road Gainesville, VA
NOW is the time to DOUBLE DOWN – Not the time to give up!
Dear Coalition supporters and neighbors, It is time to start showing up and defending where you live, where you raise your children, where you have invested in your biggest asset, your home, your family, and your friends. We have forced the wealthiest industry in the world
Virginia Mecury: Virginia Explained: Data Center Expansion, with all its Challenges and Benefits
Virginia Explained: Data Center Expansion, with all its Challenges and Benefits | Williamsburg Yorktown Daily (wydaily.com)
Seeds of Change!
The relentless advocacy of Prince William Residents to thwart the industrialization next to the Manassas National Battlefield Park, and across the entire county, has sparked a backlash against the data center ‘business as usual’ model. No more greenwash. No more hiding massive new transmission line infrastructure
Grist: The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water
The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water | Grist The commonwealth is home to the data center capital of the world. Can it handle AI’s thirst?
Even Mark Zuckerberg agrees…. Read More!
Exciting news for the Coalition and the community. Given the totality of the threats we face, and the interests from people to get involved in “making the sausage,” we have expanded our Board. With threats that range from local, state, and now federal levels, we need to ensure
COAL fueling Data Center Proliferation
As predicted more than two years ago! Coal is FUELING the Data Center Proliferation. The Coalition to Protect PWC had been warning as early as December of 2022 that out-of-control data center proliferation was consuming so much power that the only alternative immediately available to meet
Washington Post: Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal
Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal – Washington Post yahoo.com By Antonio Olivo April 17, 2024 at 6:05 a.m. CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — A helicopter hovers over the Gee family farm, the noisy rattle echoing inside their home in this
Hold the Board to its promise to raise Data Center taxes
Some supervisors want to go slow in order not to cause the Data Center industry any growing pains. We reject that position. The Data Center industry already gets a sweet deal with their bulk load discount rate from Dominion Energy, from other incentives from the
Virginia Mercury: Now what the heck do we do about data centers?
Now what the heck do we do about data centers? • Virginia Mercury Ivy Main April 3, 2024 Virginia’s 2024 legislative session wrapped up last month without any action to avert the energy crisis that is hurtling towards us. Crisis is not too
PWC Must SAY NO NOW to any more Data Centers!
Dear neighbors, friends, and supporters! The quote by Lao Tzu, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step,” encapsulates an essential and profound truth about life – and reversing the tide on data center sprawl. Finally, the Loudoun Board of Supervisors reacted to
MSN report: Washington Post – America is running out of electricity as tech companies sap the country’s aging power grid
Amid record high energy demand, America is running out of electricity – The Washington Post Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power (msn.com) AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up. Story
Next Door: 3/3/24 Man Receives Electric Shock Burn under Transmission Lines along WO&D Trail
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Buckle Up Prince William County: MORE Transmission Lines
Dear Coalition friends and supporters, We want to impress upon you, and our Supervisors, the magnitude of transmission lines and substations that are gathering like a storm at our collective doorstep. All for one undeniable reason. The Dominion Representative in Monday’s “stakeholder” meeting confirmed it
Dominion’s Massive “Extension Cord” for Data Centers through Gainesville and Brentsville districts
Barely five years after dealing with citizen uproar over multiple route possibilities cutting through communities for the Haymarket Transmission line, Dominion Energy is at it again. Dominion submitted the Daves Store Transmission line route to the SCC on Feb. 9, 2024 — completely ignoring citizen input.
Newsweek: Want to Reduce Power Outages? Move Grids Underground, Says Energy Expert
Want to Reduce Power Outages? Move Grids Underground, Says Energy Expert (newsweek.com) By Adam Piore Published Feb 08, 2024 Extreme weather is revealing the vulnerability of the nation’s power grid—with increasingly catastrophic consequences. Downed power lines likely played a role in igniting both the deadly 2018
OilPrice.com: AI Boom Could Slow U.S. Clean Grid Ambitions
AI Boom Could Slow U.S. Clean Grid Ambitions | OilPrice.com By Tsvetana Paraskova – Jan 26, 2024, 6:00 PM CST AI data centers have become a significant burden for utilities. Some utilities in the eastern and southern parts of the U.S. are proposing build-outs of new natural