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🚨WATCH: The push for green energy is running head first into the push for data centers. Spotsylvania County, Virginia is home to the largest solar panel development east of the Rockies. But despite its large 6,300+ acre footprint, it doesn’t provide enough power for one large data center complex... show more

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🚨New: As many as 12 new data centers could be built in eastern Prince William County, Virginia. The county already has more than 40 data centers. If approved, the newly proposed data centers would be built near homes and the county’s largest school. Homeowners are furious.

🚨New: As many as 12 new data centers could be built in eastern Prince William County, Virginia. The county already has more than 40 data centers. If approved, the newly proposed data centers would be built near homes and the county’s largest school. Homeowners are furious.

Nick Minock

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The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors have allowed 200+ data centers to be built in the county and 100 more are on the way. Now, residents are dealing with the threat of massive high voltage transmission lines going through their yards to power the data centers.

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors have allowed 200+ data centers to be built in the county and 100 more are on the way. Now, residents are dealing with the threat of massive high voltage transmission lines going through their yards to power the data centers.

Nick Minock

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🚨WATCH: Prince William County, Virginia officials are considering another data center complex that would be twice the size of the now defeated Digital Gateway data center project. At a rally today, Prince William County residents were joined by lawmakers and Spotsylvania and Loudoun residents who are also opposed to data centers and the high voltage transmission lines that come with them.

🚨WATCH: Prince William County, Virginia officials are considering another data center complex that would be twice the size of the now defeated Digital Gateway data center project. At a rally today, Prince William County residents were joined by lawmakers and Spotsylvania and Loudoun residents who are also opposed to data centers and the high voltage transmission lines that come with them.

Nick Minock

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Loudoun County has more than 250 data centers and makes up 70% of Global internet traffic. Data centers are responsible for 38% of the county's general fund and half of all property tax revenue. Despite all this, 71% oppose an AI data center near them, 53% oppose a nuclear plant. People would rather have a nuclear reactor near them than a data center.

Loudoun County has more than 250 data centers and makes up 70% of Global internet traffic. Data centers are responsible for 38% of the county's general fund and half of all property tax revenue. Despite all this, 71% oppose an AI data center near them, 53% oppose a nuclear plant. People would rather have a nuclear reactor near them than a data center.

Catch Up

41,987 views • 4 days ago

WATCH: The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors is getting a flood of complaints from residents who are fed up about data center noise and diesel generator fumes. Here’s what residents said who live next to one of the “noisiest” data centers in the county.

WATCH: The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors is getting a flood of complaints from residents who are fed up about data center noise and diesel generator fumes. Here’s what residents said who live next to one of the “noisiest” data centers in the county.

Nick Minock

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🚨 WATCH: Several Virginia residents in Orange County, Spotsylvania County, and Culpeper County are concerned about a massive high voltage transmission line proposal that would impact home owners, farmers and rural landscape all to power the energy needs of Northern Virginia and data centers. DETAILS:

🚨 WATCH: Several Virginia residents in Orange County, Spotsylvania County, and Culpeper County are concerned about a massive high voltage transmission line proposal that would impact home owners, farmers and rural landscape all to power the energy needs of Northern Virginia and data centers. DETAILS:

Nick Minock

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Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi wants state regulators to take double the time that they normally do to review the Dominion Energy - NextEra Energy proposed merger to determine the impacts on your electricity bill. The merger would create the world's largest regulated electric utility, according to NextEra. The merger would help the company build out energy infrastructure that Dominion says is needed for Virginia’s growing data center industry. The Lt. Gov. was a co-patron of the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) when she was in the State Senate. The VCEA is a state law requiring utility companies to phase out fossil fuels and generate power from renewable sources like solar and wind. Spotsylvania County, Virginia is home to the largest solar field east of the Rockies— with more than 6,300 acres of solar panels. Yet that solar development does not produce enough power for one large data center, underscoring the limitations of solar energy. Here’s what the Lt. Gov. told me about the feasibility of the VCEA requirements now that Virginia is home to hundreds of power hungry data centers⬇️

Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi wants state regulators to take double the time that they normally do to review the Dominion Energy - NextEra Energy proposed merger to determine the impacts on your electricity bill. The merger would create the world's largest regulated electric utility, according to NextEra. The merger would help the company build out energy infrastructure that Dominion says is needed for Virginia’s growing data center industry. The Lt. Gov. was a co-patron of the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) when she was in the State Senate. The VCEA is a state law requiring utility companies to phase out fossil fuels and generate power from renewable sources like solar and wind. Spotsylvania County, Virginia is home to the largest solar field east of the Rockies— with more than 6,300 acres of solar panels. Yet that solar development does not produce enough power for one large data center, underscoring the limitations of solar energy. Here’s what the Lt. Gov. told me about the feasibility of the VCEA requirements now that Virginia is home to hundreds of power hungry data centers⬇️

Nick Minock

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🚨 TEACHERS WERE TOLD TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS FOR AI DATA CENTERS — AND THE STUDENTS WERE LEFT IN THE DARK This is the future they promised? Loudoun County, Virginia... one of the biggest data center hubs on Earth, welcomed 37 data centers. Then the AI boom arrived. The servers came online. The power demand exploded. Now schools are reportedly being told to cut energy use. Turn off lights. Unplug electronics. Conserve wherever possible. The facilities consuming enormous amounts of electricity keep expanding. The classrooms are being told to use less. Officials say it's about rising energy costs. But that's not the question many people are asking. The question is why the burden always seems to fall on everyone else. The data centers get built. The power demand rises. The electricity bills go up. And somehow the teachers and students are the ones being asked to make sacrifices. They said AI would transform society. Maybe it already is. Because every year it feels like the same story. The data centers need more power. The data centers need more water. The data centers need more land. The data centers keep growing. And ordinary people are told to adapt. First they built the data centers. Now the schools are turning off the lights. Who should get the electricity first: students or AI servers?

🚨 TEACHERS WERE TOLD TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS FOR AI DATA CENTERS — AND THE STUDENTS WERE LEFT IN THE DARK This is the future they promised? Loudoun County, Virginia... one of the biggest data center hubs on Earth, welcomed 37 data centers. Then the AI boom arrived. The servers came online. The power demand exploded. Now schools are reportedly being told to cut energy use. Turn off lights. Unplug electronics. Conserve wherever possible. The facilities consuming enormous amounts of electricity keep expanding. The classrooms are being told to use less. Officials say it's about rising energy costs. But that's not the question many people are asking. The question is why the burden always seems to fall on everyone else. The data centers get built. The power demand rises. The electricity bills go up. And somehow the teachers and students are the ones being asked to make sacrifices. They said AI would transform society. Maybe it already is. Because every year it feels like the same story. The data centers need more power. The data centers need more water. The data centers need more land. The data centers keep growing. And ordinary people are told to adapt. First they built the data centers. Now the schools are turning off the lights. Who should get the electricity first: students or AI servers?

HustleBitch

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Billionaire Kevin O’Leary says the US has to build these massive data centers to compete with China but it is a big lie. The US already has 5,381 data centers which is 12 times more than China’s 449. In fact, the US has more data centers than nearly every other nation combined.

Billionaire Kevin O’Leary says the US has to build these massive data centers to compete with China but it is a big lie. The US already has 5,381 data centers which is 12 times more than China’s 449. In fact, the US has more data centers than nearly every other nation combined.

Power to the People ☭🕊

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.tylercowen loves living next to data centers: “I live right next to all the data centers in Northern Virginia. It’s great. They pay for half the taxes in their county.” “The energy, the YIMBY, all that. I’m completely for it." "The chips? Bring it on.”

.tylercowen loves living next to data centers: “I live right next to all the data centers in Northern Virginia. It’s great. They pay for half the taxes in their county.” “The energy, the YIMBY, all that. I’m completely for it." "The chips? Bring it on.”

TBPN

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Donald Trump says states need to embrace Data Centers “You have to convince your community how great these things are — you're going to make a tremendous amount of money. You're going to reduce taxes — Your community and your state's going to become rich, and there's very little disruption” “And again, if you don't take all that money, somebody else is going to take it. You might as well do it yourself.” Okay surprisingly enough, I have found some evidence for data centers actually lowering taxes for some communities This happened in Loudoun County, Virginia in “Data Center Alley” Data centers now generate a very large share of the county’s property tax revenue (hundreds of millions to nearly $1 billion annually This has allowed the county to lower the residential real property tax rate every year for roughly a decade. Loudoun has one of the lowest rates in Northern Virginia

Donald Trump says states need to embrace Data Centers “You have to convince your community how great these things are — you're going to make a tremendous amount of money. You're going to reduce taxes — Your community and your state's going to become rich, and there's very little disruption” “And again, if you don't take all that money, somebody else is going to take it. You might as well do it yourself.” Okay surprisingly enough, I have found some evidence for data centers actually lowering taxes for some communities This happened in Loudoun County, Virginia in “Data Center Alley” Data centers now generate a very large share of the county’s property tax revenue (hundreds of millions to nearly $1 billion annually This has allowed the county to lower the residential real property tax rate every year for roughly a decade. Loudoun has one of the lowest rates in Northern Virginia

Wall Street Apes

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This is very alarming Housing developers are realizing that selling parcels to data center developers is far more profitable than building homes “AI data centers aren't just using electricity and water. They're using land previously planned for homes” - 55 homes were purchased for nearly $1 million per house and knocked down to build data centers outside of Chicago - Amazon paid $700 million for land so they could build a data center instead of homes - Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are spending more money on data centers than the US spent on railroads in the the interstate highway system in the 1950s, and more than the US spent on the Apollo space program States are choosing data centers over homes. There are real examples of this Northern Virginia is the center of this phenomenon known as Data Center Alley, even though the region has a shortage of more than 75,000 homes I found real devastating examples of this happening: Prince William County / Bristow, Virginia (Northern Virginia “Data Center Alley”) The homebuilder Steve Alloy’s company was preparing to develop 516 new homes when surrounding land was rapidly bought up by Microsoft, Google, and other data center operators instead. Nearby, the Village Place housing project entitled for 250 additional units had its land sold to a data center developer for $31 million Stanley Martin Homes Land Flip to Amazon, Prince William County, Virginia Residential homebuilder Stanley Martin Homes assembled 270 acres for about $51 million. They flipped most of it to Amazon for $700 million In Suburban Chicago Illinois. Stream Data Centers bought a 55 home subdivision for nearly $1 million per home, demolished the houses, and built a 2.1 million sq ft data center campus This must be stopped. We have starter home affordable crisis already

This is very alarming Housing developers are realizing that selling parcels to data center developers is far more profitable than building homes “AI data centers aren't just using electricity and water. They're using land previously planned for homes” - 55 homes were purchased for nearly $1 million per house and knocked down to build data centers outside of Chicago - Amazon paid $700 million for land so they could build a data center instead of homes - Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are spending more money on data centers than the US spent on railroads in the the interstate highway system in the 1950s, and more than the US spent on the Apollo space program States are choosing data centers over homes. There are real examples of this Northern Virginia is the center of this phenomenon known as Data Center Alley, even though the region has a shortage of more than 75,000 homes I found real devastating examples of this happening: Prince William County / Bristow, Virginia (Northern Virginia “Data Center Alley”) The homebuilder Steve Alloy’s company was preparing to develop 516 new homes when surrounding land was rapidly bought up by Microsoft, Google, and other data center operators instead. Nearby, the Village Place housing project entitled for 250 additional units had its land sold to a data center developer for $31 million Stanley Martin Homes Land Flip to Amazon, Prince William County, Virginia Residential homebuilder Stanley Martin Homes assembled 270 acres for about $51 million. They flipped most of it to Amazon for $700 million In Suburban Chicago Illinois. Stream Data Centers bought a 55 home subdivision for nearly $1 million per home, demolished the houses, and built a 2.1 million sq ft data center campus This must be stopped. We have starter home affordable crisis already

Wall Street Apes

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Please watch my video about the development of zoning standards for data centers in Knox County.

Please watch my video about the development of zoning standards for data centers in Knox County.

Glenn Jacobs

15,632 views • 2 months ago

Woman who lives in Virginia says her county alone has over 50 Data Centers and now they are being asked to conserve both power and water “Our temperatures are about to hit an average of 120° across the state, but you want us to preserve water and power so the data centers can run, and we're going to be the ones fitting the bill for all that power that gets used up” She’s absolutely correct I verified that parts of Virginia are sending conservation requests to residents For those that don’t know how bad it is in Virginia Data Center Alley alone in Northern Virginia hosts the world’s largest concentration of data centers, around 600–685 facilities with many more planned Things are only going to get worse

Woman who lives in Virginia says her county alone has over 50 Data Centers and now they are being asked to conserve both power and water “Our temperatures are about to hit an average of 120° across the state, but you want us to preserve water and power so the data centers can run, and we're going to be the ones fitting the bill for all that power that gets used up” She’s absolutely correct I verified that parts of Virginia are sending conservation requests to residents For those that don’t know how bad it is in Virginia Data Center Alley alone in Northern Virginia hosts the world’s largest concentration of data centers, around 600–685 facilities with many more planned Things are only going to get worse

Wall Street Apes

120,523 views • 1 month ago

"We should permanently ban them," one local Virginia resident says of data centers, as he warned the Warren County Planning Commission about the possible negative effects of data centers on water, the environment, and property values.

"We should permanently ban them," one local Virginia resident says of data centers, as he warned the Warren County Planning Commission about the possible negative effects of data centers on water, the environment, and property values.

Breitbart News

25,190 views • 2 months ago

Starke County, Indiana voted 75% for Trump in 2024. But now they're opposing Trump's AI agenda, and the Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend a 12 month pause on new hyperscale data centers. The idea of banning AI data centers is becoming more and more popular.

Starke County, Indiana voted 75% for Trump in 2024. But now they're opposing Trump's AI agenda, and the Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend a 12 month pause on new hyperscale data centers. The idea of banning AI data centers is becoming more and more popular.

More Perfect Union

143,779 views • 8 months ago

NEW: Mingo County, West Virginia, was once thriving, but the coal industry’s decline left it one of the poorest counties in the US. Now, multiple data centers could be built in the region. Are data centers a new extractive industry, or will they provide a much-needed lifeline?

NEW: Mingo County, West Virginia, was once thriving, but the coal industry’s decline left it one of the poorest counties in the US. Now, multiple data centers could be built in the region. Are data centers a new extractive industry, or will they provide a much-needed lifeline?

More Perfect Union

84,572 views • 9 months ago

Yesterday’s petition was for referendum on data centers in Coweta County. Our county showed up! In this clip I said 2 in the county, I meant 2 in my small city. There are 10 data centers trying to be built in the county.

Yesterday’s petition was for referendum on data centers in Coweta County. Our county showed up! In this clip I said 2 in the county, I meant 2 in my small city. There are 10 data centers trying to be built in the county.

Ansley Brown

11,504 views • 3 months ago

ABC News investigated and found more than 3,000 data centers are already operating nationwide At least 1,000 more planned Residents near data centers are seeing much as 50%+ increases on their electric bills “ABC7 has also been covering public meetings over proposed data centers and there are questions about water use and the environment. The i-team in ABC News studied this private company's data center map and found that there are at least 4,302 data center projects across the U.S. Large and small. Of those, 3,038 are currently operational with another 1,203 either under construction or plan for construction. 61 have acquired land. In Illinois, there are 164 operating data centers with another 81 planned for construction. The largest state project plan is in Yorkville. It would be 2 gigawatts and according to the ABC7 data team would use the same energy that would power approximately 1.7 million homes more than every home in the city of Chicago.”

ABC News investigated and found more than 3,000 data centers are already operating nationwide At least 1,000 more planned Residents near data centers are seeing much as 50%+ increases on their electric bills “ABC7 has also been covering public meetings over proposed data centers and there are questions about water use and the environment. The i-team in ABC News studied this private company's data center map and found that there are at least 4,302 data center projects across the U.S. Large and small. Of those, 3,038 are currently operational with another 1,203 either under construction or plan for construction. 61 have acquired land. In Illinois, there are 164 operating data centers with another 81 planned for construction. The largest state project plan is in Yorkville. It would be 2 gigawatts and according to the ABC7 data team would use the same energy that would power approximately 1.7 million homes more than every home in the city of Chicago.”

Wall Street Apes

152,195 views • 6 months ago