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Data center fight continues: New map omits PW Digital Gateway

By Uriah Kiser
Prince William County Supervisor Jeanine Lawson talks to voters outside Montclair Elementary School near Woodbridge. [Photo: Uriah Kiser]

Supervisor Jeanine Lawson vowed continue the fight against the Prince William Digital Gateway next to the Manassas National Battlefield. Lawson, a Republican who represents a portion of western Prince William County, visited polling places in the east on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8 to encourage residents to contact their respective supervisors to oppose the digital gateway project, which plans 27 million sure feet of new server server farms next Civil War battlefield.

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Supervisors approve Prince William Digital Gateway comp plan amendment, clearing way for record-breaking development

By Potomac Local News

Prince William County Supervisors voted to amend its comprehensive plan to allow up to 27 million square feet of data centers to be built next to Manassas National Battlefield Park.

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Decision day arrives for PW Digital Gateway data center project in Prince William County | Insidenova

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Protesters gather outside the Prince William County Government Center in Woodbridge urging the county to limit the areas in which data centers may be built, and to decline the Digital Gateway project next to the Manassas National Battlefield.

While future skirmishes loom in the form of rezonings, arguably the biggest land-use decision in Prince William County’s history is expected to be made Tuesday, Nov. 1. That’s when the Board of County Supervisors will hold a public hearing and plans to vote on the proposed PW Digital Gateway. The hearing is on the request from dozens of landowners to designate 2,139 acres in western Prince William County for data centers. Specifically, it is to change the land currently designated as agricultural/estate and environmental resource in the Comprehensive Plan to technology/flex, parks and open space, county registered historic site and environmental resource overlay.

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Massive crowds, capacity limits are expected at Tuesday’s data center meeting

By Potomac Local News

Police and local government officials are preparing for one of the most anticipated public meetings in recent years, as the Board of County Supervisors will decide to allow data centers on 2,100 acres next to Manassas National Battlefield. It’s the largest land-use case in county history, larger than 150 Walmart Supercenters, and 15 times larger than the area of Potomac Mills mall. It’s also proven to be one of the most contentious, as the meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 1, and will last into the early morning hours of the following day.

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PW Digital Gateway opponents make last-ditch effort to delay vote, push water study

By Potomac Local News
Brentsville District Supervisor Jeanine Lawson

In three days, elected county leaders will make the most significant land use decision in county history as it weighs the Prince William Digital Gateway. Opponents of the massive data center project, the county’s most significant land-use case in history, gathered today to urge the Board of County Supervisors to delay its decision expected in the early hours of Wednesday morning, November 2.

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Occoquan watershed study won’t delay data center decisions despite pollution concerns

By Uriah Kiser
A crew team uses a dock at Lake Ridge Marina on the Occoquan Reservoir. [Photo: Occoquan District Supervisor Kenny Boddye Facebook Page]

Prince William Board of County Supervisors ordered a study water study in the wake of multiple data center campuses looking to build in the area. 

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