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2024

2024

2024

March 17: Data Center Developers Are Caught in a Backup Power Pinch.

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March 17: King George, Amazon Remain at an Impasse Over Data Centers.

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March 17: Fauquier supervisors OK zoning changes aimed at curbing large data centers at Vint Hill.

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March 16: Dan Yergin Is Concerned About AI-Fueled Boom in Electricity Use.  Click Here for Article


March 15: Controversial Maryland Data Center Bill Tests Governor’s Climate Credentials, Environmentalists Say.

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March 14: Reid Hoffman, Kevin Scott Back Abigail Spanberger 2025/

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March 14: In landmark vote, Board of Supervisors rejects Belmont Innovation data center proposal.

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March 14: A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals (this article used PEC's data on data centers in Virginia!)

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March 12: The AI Revolution Needs Chips, Software — and Gas Pipelines.

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March 11: Forget ‘Oppenheimer’ — nuclear power is having its moment in Washington.

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March 9: The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I.

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March 7: Amid Explosive Demand, America is Running Out of Power

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2023

2024

2024

October: Alternative routes for high-voltage power lines would criss cross almost 80 miles of country side, and potentially impact 700 properties. Click Here for Fact Sheet


July 24: Citizens for Fauquier County Not just Warrenton.  Catlett has hit the radar with CFFC.


July 15: Protect Catlett in the News Developer drops move to run overhead power to proposed Catlett data center; opponents relieved


July 13: Chief of Zoning & Development Services for the Fauquier County Department of Community Development has reported that the "Text Amendment" regarding the power lines for the Catlett Data Center complex has been withdrawn by the applicant.  The Public Hearing has been Cancelled.


2023: Data Center Growth is Unsustainable: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Fact-Sheet-On-Data-Centers.pdf


February: Virginia Conservation Network: Data Centers' Impact on the Environment


April: WUSA9.com: "Science of data center noise | VERIFY"

2022

2022

2022

FEBRUARY: MIT, February 14th, 2022: "The staggering ecological impacts of computation and the cloud"


SPRING: Harvard Medicine: Noise and Health, 

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/noise-and-health


AUGUST: WUSA9.com, August 30th, 2022: "'It is affecting our health' | Protesters chant outside Amazon Web Services Data Center in Manassas"


SEPTEMBER: FOX 5 DC, September, 2022: "Manassas residents protest over noise pollution from Amazon data center"


December: DCD, December 19, 2022: Historic Black Cemetery was Moved by Microsoft data center project


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SEPTEMBER: Tech Republic, September 19th, 2016: "Why data centers fail to bring new jobs to small towns"

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