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Prince William schools offered no opinion on proposed 14 data centers: ‘I’m really mad about that,’ says school board member

By Potomac Local News
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Before the land was slated for up to 14 Devlin Road Technology Park data centers, Stanley Martin Homes wanted to build more than 1,800 homes on nearly 900 acres in Bristow in 2014.

Called Stonehaven, the proposed mixed-use development would have houses, retail, and office space. The county school division, as it has with more than 130 other housing projects, weighed in and prepared a report for the school board warning that the new homes would bring more than 1,000 new students to the county public schools.

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Business

Hundreds voice opposition to data center park in Bristow 

By Uriah Kiser

Hundreds packed Chris Yung Elementary School in Bristow on Thursday, February 2, opposing a massive data center complex on the horizon.

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DEQ fears Northern Virginia lacks electricity to power data centers

By Potomac Local News
[Photo: American Public Power Association/Unsplash]

The state’s Department of Environmental Quality will consider allowing data centers in Prince William, Fairfax, and Loudoun County (the world’s epicenter for data centers) to use generators to feed the power-hungry server farms.

From the public notice:

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Gainesville District Supervisor candidates to appear at forum; Data centers key issue in race

By Potomac Local News
Sumers (D) and Weir (R) are running in a February 21 Special Election for the Gainesville District seat on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.

Two candidates vying for the Gainesville District Supervisors seat will participate in a voter forum on Thursday, February 9, 2023.

Kerensa G. Sumers (D) and Robert B. “Bob” Weir (R) will appear on stage at Battlefield High School, 15000 Graduation Drive near Haymarket, at 7 p.m. The event staff from the Prince William Committee of 100 will open the door to the school at 6:30 p.m. Here’s more information on this event flier.

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Devlin Road Tech Park (4 million square feet of data center space) town hall is Thursday

By Potomac Local News
Prince William County Brentsville District Supervisor Jeanine Lawson

The Devlin Road Technology Park — over 4 million square feet of planned data center space — is back on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors’ agenda for Tuesday, February 7, 2023.

Supervisors are being asked to amend the county’s long-range comprehensive land-use plan, moving more than 270 acres from planned mixed residential to M-2, Light Industrial, to allow for the development of up to 4.25 million square feet of data center space.

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Virginia House Republicans kill bill to study data center impacts statewide

By Potomac Local News
Left to right: Rep. Gerry Connolly, Va. Delegate Danica Roem, Prince William County Occoquan Supervisor Kenny Boddye [Photo: Uriah Kiser]

A bill from Delegate Danica Roem (D-Prince William) to study the impacts of data center development died today in the Hosue of Delegates.

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Opinion

Opinion: Defer the vote on Devlin Technology Park; the BOCS is not whole

By Letters to the Editor

If it’s a day that ends in “Y”, then there’s a data center debate going on somewhere in Prince William County.

While much attention has been given to the controversial Digital Gateway, another large data center development is pending, impacting several neighborhoods, schools, and businesses.

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Business

Data center developers turn their eyes to Stafford; 4 server farms proposed

By Uriah Kiser
QTS data center in Manassas [Photo: Google Maps]

According to sources familiar with the project, an unnamed single firm aims to build four server farms in multiple corners of the county, including the Falmouth, Griffis-Widewater, and rural George Washington magisterial districts.

Now commonplace in localities to the north, like Loudoun and Prince William counties, data centers are typically large warehouse-style buildings, with hundreds of thousands of square feet, built between 60 and 100 feet tall. They’re full of servers that power the internet and draw large amounts of electricity to power the servers and water to cool them.

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Opinion: Supervisors have had community in constant uproar; All controversial votes are against the poeple

By Letters to the Editor
Former Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chair At-large Ann Wheeler. [File photo]

Chairwoman Ann Wheeler and the Prince William County Board of County Supervisors have made a lot of news over the past three years and not the good kind.

Vote after vote, whether it’s controversial land use cases, increasing our taxes every year, meals tax, public corruption investigations, lack of disclosing data center stock, having illegal board meetings, the list goes on and on.

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Bills would halt the PW Digital Gateway, strengthen state regulations for data centers

By Local News

Saying Virginia needs to “tap the brakes” on the rapid expansion of data centers, state Sen. J. Chapman “Chap” Petersen and Del. Danica Roem have introduced three bills that would stop the controversial Prince William Digital Gateway and strictly regulate other data centers proposed near state and national parks.

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