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Proponents say data centers bring localities enormous revenues and opportunities. Opponents raise concerns about their big demands for power and compatibility with neighborhoods.
Data center developers are now eyeing the Richmond area. While counties welcome the sites' tax revenues, residents' concerns have prompted developers to withdraw some proposals and Henrico imposed further oversight.
These buildings that house key IT infrastructure are big, expensive and need a lot of energy but promise big revenues for localities.
The state's telecommunications infrastructure, tax breaks, workforce and officials' welcoming attitude have helped make Virginia the world's data center capital.
The 451 now running in Virginia, home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world, currently use 3,583 megawatts, or enough electricity to power nearly 896,000 homes.
Virginia’s data center boom means new terms to understand. Here are some key words and phrases.
The state's data center boom is the subtext to increasingly intense politicking over longtime Virginia issues — climate change, electricity rates and the powers of local governments.
President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders removing barriers to expanding the electric grid's ability to serve data centers necessary to advance artificial intelligence and other power-hungry technologies.
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A delegate from Virginia’s data center heartland will ask the General Assembly to break new ground in Virginia by requiring that big energy users get a permit from electricity regulators.
Virginians need to push back against President Donald Trump’s proposal to rescind one of the most important regulations protecting wilderness areas, Sen. Tim Kaine and Rep, Jennifer McClellan, D-4th, said.
It was the central plank in the platforms that swept Democrats into all three statewide offices and that flipped 13 House of Delegates seats and affordability will be the word that shapes state Senate Democrats’ actions in the new General Assembly, caucus leaders said.
One measure limits what federal immigration officials can do in and around courthouses, schools and hospitals.
Senate Bill 32, sponsored by state Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William, never even got a hearing before the gatekeepers of the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee.
Of more than 2,350 bills introduced this year, roughly 1,000 didn’t make it by Tuesday’s crossover deadline.
Legislation looks at annual license fees, taxing game revenues, capping the number of machines statewide and the number in each store or truck stop.
“As we watched our nation's lawmakers gather for a joint session of Congress, we did not hear the truth from our president,” she said from Virginia’s Colonial Capitol in Williamsburg.
The legislation, Senate Bill 693, says insurance companies can’t refuse to cover drivers or charge different premiums for coverage solely because of an individual’s credit.
The penalty for failing to appear when summoned to court can be up to a year in jail, even if the original issue was a misdemeanor subject only to a fine.
A nightmarish story of online stalking brings General Assembly bill to tighten Virginia law.
Legislation by Sen. Bill Stanley, R-Franklin County, would allow alternatives for people under court-ordered competency restoration.
The clock is ticking away toward the end of Virginia's legislative session, and state lawmakers are still at odds over whether to eliminate a tax break for data centers.
With minutes to go before Senators had to head for their caucus briefings on floor action, freshman Del. Charlie Schmidt’s bill on probation ran out of time.
A Senate proposal to repeal a lucrative tax break for data centers has brought budget talks to a standstill and set off alarm bells for some business organizations across the state.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger met with budget negotiators on Wednesday to jumpstart stalled talks on a two-year spending plan as the Democratic-controlled legislature faces a Saturday deadline for completing its work.
With the House and Senate at loggerheads over a $1.9 billion tax break for data centers, Gov. Spanberger is floating a new idea: a consumption tax.
Local governments from Petersburg to the North Carolina line are quietly wondering whether Virginia is about to shut the door on data centers and the economic benefits their localities need.
