Data Centers popping up all over the county also mean high-voltage transmission lines and substations popping up next to and throughout communities all across the county. Particularly in rural areas where the board of supervisors has ALREADY approved so many data centers yet to be built.
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Video: Hidden Costs of the Cloud: Data Centers in Virginia
This French video – produced 5 years ago – makes digital/data centers easily understood – now imagine today’s data centers 5-10X larger, requiring 5-8% more power!
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Just remember the 2014-2018 ordeal the Gainesville district fought against the transmission line required to support the Haymarket Amazon Web Services data center complex: