The cost for the power Virginia’s booming data center businesses use is on track to shift in a big way to other ratepayers, a legislative watchdog says.
Quality Technical Services, or QTS, operates a data center campus in eastern Henrico’s White Oak Technology Park. Committees killed or shelved several bills aiming to tighten oversight of data centers.
Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover, notes that the governor is proposing to reduce additional money for school support positions, not cutting existing school funding.
09-10-1968 (cutline): Inmates in the auto license tag shop prepare to hang newly stamped-out license plates to run through paint machine at State Penitentiary.
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09-10-1968 (cutline): Prisoners who've returned to work have recreation privileges on Penitentiary yard.
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An aerial view of Virginia State Penitentiary is seen on Dec. 12, 1973.
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01-24-1960 (cutline): Store where inmates, using scrip, buy personal effects at the State Penitentiary.
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10-18-1962 (cutline): A. E. Slayton (center), rehabilitation supervisor at the State Penitentiary and Carroll R. Proctor, superintendent of prison industries, check progress of man in the woodworking department.
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12-07-1966: Virginia State Penitentiary
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12-07-1966 (cutline): Prisoners work as technicians in clinical laboratory. Facilities are available for all tests except tissue cultures.
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03-01-1966 (cutline): Wilson I. Trayer (right) teaches barbering at the the State Penitentiary.
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09-09-1968 (cutline): Virginia State Penitentiary commissary.
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07-27-1962 (cutline): Inmates of the Virginia State Penitentiary have a graduation ceremony. Seventeen inmates received General Educational Development Certificates.
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01-04-1961: Virginia State Penitentiary
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07-22-1968: Virginia State Penitentiary
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01-24-1960 (cutline): A prisoner at the State Penitentiary takes a strip of cookies from oven. Bakery makes quantities of bread, cakes and pies.
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01-20-1960 (cutline): Despite prison bars in window, instructor John L. Scanlon teaches high school level class at the State Penitentiary.
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04-11-1992 (cutline): The scene after the State Penitentiary was razed.
Virginia lawmakers are considering regulation of data centers. Proposed legislation could include multiple topics, such as:
Zoning: Data centers could be designated for industrial use to keep them away from residential neighborhoods.
Taxes: Lawmakers will look at the current exemption from state sales taxes that has given data centers a nearly $1 billion tax break. Legislators could tie it to specific goals.
Power generation: Lawmakers could look at ways to further insulate ratepayers from the rising cost of generating power for data centers.
Quality Technical Services, or QTS, operates a data center campus in eastern Henrico’s White Oak Technology Park. Committees killed or shelved several bills aiming to tighten oversight of data centers.
Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover, notes that the governor is proposing to reduce additional money for school support positions, not cutting existing school funding.
