Recent Times-Dispatch reporting on data centers
Here's some recent Times-Dispatch reporting on data centers.
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A bill aimed at limiting pollution from data centers’ backup diesel generators prompted a revision that now only calls for a study of more businesses’ generators.
The increase amounts to $11.20 more per month for the typical residential customer. Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative serves 180,000 homes and businesses.
The regional electric grid that covers Virginia should stop plugging in data centers until it has enough high-voltage lines and power plants to meet their demands for electricity, the grid’s watchdog says.
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.
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.
Proponents say data centers bring localities enormous revenues and opportunities. Opponents raise concerns about their big demands for power and compatibility with neighborhoods.
The state's telecommunications infrastructure, tax breaks, workforce and officials' welcoming attitude have helped make Virginia the world's data center capital.
Virginia’s data center boom means new terms to understand. Here are some key words and phrases.
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.
These buildings that house key IT infrastructure are big, expensive and need a lot of energy but promise big revenues for localities.
Elected local government officials would no longer be allowed to sign agreements to keep what they're doing secret under sweeping new language in a bill sponsored by state Sen. Mike Jones, D-Richmond.
