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Christiansburg ups requirements for any future data center
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (428+ words) The town of Christiansburg is raising the bar for data center construction, following a trend of localities statewide adding more zoning requirements for such projects. On Tuesday, the town council voted 6-0 to add a conditional use permit provision for any…...
Roanoke Valley Field Notes: Google gets permit to begin grading for Botetourt County data center
1+ week, 3+ day ago (510+ words) Welcome to Roanoke Valley Field Notes, a collection of news and miscellaneous notes from the past week in the valley and a look ahead at what’s happening next week. Here’s my last edition, if you missed it. There’s an update…...
Virginia’s job losses are accelerating, economic report says. Data center construction may be propping up the economy.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (295+ words) We have some good news and we have some bad news. And then we have lots of questions. That’s the short version of the latest quarterly economic forecast from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of…...
National security consultants: Virginia’s power grid is approaching its limit. Here’s what that means for national defense.
2+ week, 1+ day ago (247+ words) That gap between what the grid can deliver and forecasted electricity demand inspired one of the first state-level studies in the country on whether the power grid can meet national defense requirements in peacetime or in times of conflict. In…...
Stricter data center regulations approved in Henry County
2+ week, 4+ day ago (499+ words) A new zoning ordinance in Henry County requires data center companies to go through three public hearing processes and meet an extensive list of application requirements including six different impact studies. The board of supervisors approved the ordinance unanimously on…...
Data centers are drinking more water, but overall water use in Virginia has gone down anyway. Here are the numbers.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (500+ words) Google’s annual environmental report lists the company’s water usage in two ways. There’s the conventional measure of how many million gallons per day, and then Google converts that into golf course equivalents. The point: Data centers are thirsty, but so…...
Virginia has a new climate office. It’s at George Mason University. Here’s what it does.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (480+ words) Botetourt County, amid much controversy over a data center coming to the county’s business park, has appointed a commission to study the county’s water supply. That would seem to lead to the question of where water ultimately comes from; the…...
General Assembly launches effort to study tax exemptions, consumption tax for data centers
3+ week, 3+ day ago (757+ words) Virginia’s General Assembly convened its dormant Joint Subcommittee on Tax Policy on Wednesday for the first time since 2024, with the aim of implementing a consumption tax on data center operators and studying current exemptions for data centers and their impacts…...