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 …

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 …

Opinion: 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 …

Prince William Times: ‘Rural crescent’ no more? County proposes major changes in comprehensive plan update

‘Rural crescent’ no more? County proposes major changes in comprehensive plan update | News | princewilliamtimes.com By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer Feb 4, 2022 Is this the end of Prince William County’s “rural crescent”? Prince William County planners have revealed their long-awaited comprehensive plan Read More …

Virginia Tech: Researcher explores how proliferating data centers affect water supply in the United States

Researcher explores how proliferating data centers affect water supply in the United States | VTx | Virginia Tech By Courtney Sakry 2 FEB 2022 Netflix. Amazon Prime Video. Disney+. Hulu. The choices for streaming services are wide ranging, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, more people Read More …

Opinion: Digital Gateway a get-rich-quick scheme

Letter: Digital Gateway a get-rich-quick scheme | Opinion | insidenova.com Feb 1, 2022 I have been an ardent opponent of the Prince William Digital Gateway, a get-rich-quick scheme concocted by greedy landowners and their developer henchmen to plunder western Prince William County for their personal Read More …

Guest Opinion: Data center plan’s promises are built on false premises – Prince William Times

GUEST OPINION: Data center plan’s promises are built on false premises | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com By Deshundra Jefferson Jan 29, 2022 Updated 12 hrs ago 0 If wealthy developers for Pageland Lane are to be believed, the so-called “PW Digital Gateway” would bring millions of Read More …

Letter: Data centers’ impact on the watershed, water quality a concern – Prince William Times

LETTER: Data centers’ impact on the watershed, water quality a concern | Opinion | princewilliamtimes.com The Prince William County Board of Supervisors is considering approval of a huge data center corridor in the rural crescent. Data centers rely heavily on water-scarce basins to supply their Read More …

Prince William Times: Community meeting on PW Digital Gateway divides western Prince William residents

January 28, 2022 By Daniel Berti Times Staff Writer Jan 28, 2022 More than 150 people gathered at George Mason University Beacon Hall Conference Center in Manassas for a community meeting about the PW Digital Gateway.   More than 200 people came to a meeting Read More …