Category: News
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Virginia Mercury: Data centers and AI: a rare and raw issue in Virginia for this midterm election
Virginia Mercury looks at how data centers and AI have become a rare, emotionally charged issue in this year’s midterm elections. Elena Schlossberg, who began battling data centers near her home in western Prince William County in 2014, is profiled and quoted, including on U.S. Sen. Mark Warner beco
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Podcast: The Data Centers Are Coming, Bonus Ep. 2 – Fighting for Our Lives – ILSR / Building Local Power
Bonus episode of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Building Local Power series. A trip to Nashville shows where the data center fight is headed and how Big Tech’s efforts to divide people are uniting a region. Elena Schlossberg of Data Center Alley is a featured voice: “It is a local fight, it
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Video: Balancing Act with John Katko, Ep. 132 – Data Centers: Boon or Burden? – PBS / WCNY
Host John Katko is joined by data center energy expert Jonathan Koomey, community advocate Elena Schlossberg and Data Center Coalition policy executive Dan Diorio to examine why data centers are expanding so rapidly and whether their economic and technological benefits outweigh the impact on local c
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InsideNoVa: Prince William supervisors defer ‘Project Industry’ data center proposal
InsideNoVa reports that the Prince William Board of County Supervisors deferred the “Project Industry” data center application, which involves a six-acre electric substation. Elena Schlossberg, executive director of the Coalition to Protect Prince William County, is quoted by text message after the
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Prince William Times: Perfect storm: Drought, data centers and NDAs
With every region of Virginia in drought, hundreds of data centers withdraw about 6 million gallons of water a day from the state’s waterways and reservoirs, and water levels are “extremely below normal.” Elena Schlossberg is quoted on how hard it is to learn about data center water use because of n
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Podcast: Can Data Centers be Done Right – On with Kara Swisher – Apple Podcasts
As the AI boom fuels a massive data-center buildout, communities across the country are pushing back. Kara speaks with environmental activist and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich, Utah climate scientist Logan Mitchell, Virginia organizer Elena Schlossberg and Lansing, Mich., Mayor Andy Schor about
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Prince William needs Master Planning, not Fragmentary Growth – InsideNoVa Opinion
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Prince William Times: Should data centers pay billions for transmission lines?
New billion-dollar transmission lines for data centers are prompting protests over their routes and a debate in Richmond over who should pay. Elena Schlossberg, who led the 2016 effort to make Amazon pay for a 6-mile transmission line to its Haymarket data center, is featured and quoted (“It’s about
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InsideNoVa: Dominion’s Nokesville-Bristow transmission line generates fervor at community open house
Scores of western Prince William residents rallied outside Patriot High School in Nokesville to protest Dominion Energy’s planned transmission line at its community open house. Elena Schlossberg, executive director of the Coalition to Protect Prince William County, is quoted emphasizing the county’s
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Power Line Failure Exposes AI Data Center Grid Vulnerability – The Tech Buzz
Power Line Failure Exposes AI Data Center Grid Vulnerability | The Tech Buzz Northern Virginia incident reveals critical infrastructure weakness in AI operations A single downed power line in Northern Virginia just exposed a critical weakness in the backbone of AI infrastructure. The incident reveal