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The Lens
(October 25, 2025)
A new report warns that Big Tech’s rapid buildout of data centers across the South could usher in a new wave of environmental and economic harms for Black and working-class communities, drawing parallels to Louisiana’s infamous Cancer Alley, the infamous span of petrochemical plants belching toxic smoke.
Virginia Pilot
(October 9, 2025)
Researchers said the spike can be attributed to a number of factors. Of the $1,115 increase for consumers, lead author Jeremy Symons said $295 comes from a decrease in renewable energy incentives, $440 comes from the increase in energy demand by data centers, and $380 comes from the cost increase for natural gas.
Bay Journal
(October 8, 2025)
Each data center is equipped with sometimes dozens, sometimes hundreds of tractor trailer-sized generators largely running on diesel or natural gas. Burning these fossil fuels for power emits pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxides and carbon dioxide. Some of these pose risks to human health while others degrade air quality in general, affecting the environment and the water where pollutants eventually flow.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
(October 8, 2025)
We all want what’s best for the next generation. But it’s not always clear how we can achieve that better future. More difficult still, the perfectly reasonable decisions we make today may have unintended and adverse consequences down the road. This begs the question: as the data center industry booms across Virginia, are we doing what’s best for today’s youth?
Quartz
(October 6, 2025)
AI stocks have been the bread and butter for investors of late, fattening the portfolios of high school teachers and massive hedge funds alike. But there are signs that the mania over generative artificial intelligence is moderating, especially on Wall Street.
The Washington Post
(October 6, 2025)
For the past two years, I’ve set out to capture that infrastructure in the data center capital: Northern Virginia. Located just outside of D.C., this region houses the towering, gray warehouses that process, by some estimates, nearly 70 percent of global digital traffic. Here in the world’s internet hub, residents have long shouldered the costs of powering our insatiable digital demand. The structures are built between baseball fields, schools, homes and historic cemeteries.
The Guardian
(October 4, 2025)
Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, while their high level of water consumption has also raised alarm. Now public health advocates fear another environmental problem could be linked to them – Pfas “forever chemical” pollution.
Bloomberg
(September 29, 2025)
Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour's drive from the northern Virginia region known as Data Center Alley. But Kevin Stanley, a 57-year-old who survives on disability payments, says his energy bills are about 80% higher than they were about three years ago.
FOX Nashville
(September 27, 2025)
[Video] Every year, more than one million tons of sewage, sludge or biosolids are applied to U.S. farmlands. For decades, it's been used as fertilizer to provide nutrients to the soil. But this sludge often contains PFAS, toxic "forever chemicals" that have been linked to cancer, and are now invading our food supply through the very farms that nourish us. And now, just as the United States was on the verge of action to address the risk, there is a high-level effort to stop it entirely.
The New Energy Crisis
(October 10, 2025)
If all the data centers planned for REC’s territory are completed, the co-op, which has fewer than 170,000 customers, will need enough capacity to power the combined populations of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
This article is the fourth in an eight-part series published in The New Energy Crisis, a project by the Fauquier Times and Prince William Times. Read more in this series at The New Energy Crisis.
Fauquier Times
(October 10, 2025)
Apple and pumpkin season is here. If you had your heart set on Honeycrisp, you’re too late — but don’t fret, it’s Fuji time. And Granny Smith is coming up soon. Looking for a more old-school variety, like a York or a Stayman? Those (along with more than a dozen others) can be plucked from the branches of local orchards through October.
Fauquier Times
(October 10, 2025)
Morning sunlight streams through the vines, lending a glow to the straw-colored chardonnay grapes that a picker is snipping off the vine. It is a beautiful harvest season in the vineyards of Northern Virginia, even when the harvest itself has challenges like it did this year.
Northern Virginia Magazine
(October 7, 2025)
There could be trees and plants growing right in your yard that are doing harm to their surrounding environment. Here are three common plants that are on the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s list of invasive plant species — and some possible replacements that are native to the area.
The Northern Virginia Daily
(October 6, 2025)
Visitors poured into the Shenandoah National Park’s northern entrance just south of Front Royal Sunday, undeterred by facility closures and limited services in the midst of the federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1.
Energy Wire
(October 3, 2025)
Data centers in the largest U.S. regional power grid are adding billions of dollars to ratepayers’ electricity bills and raising the risk of persistent inflation in the economy and potential power shortages, new analyses show.
WHRO
(October 2, 2025)
The results show that ospreys are thriving in parts of the watershed with more freshwater – but not enough to compensate for likely losses in saltier areas, such as Hampton Roads. Watts says that’s because birds in these areas have different diets.
Utility Dive
(October 1, 2025)
Utility customers in seven PJM Interconnection states are being charged $4.4 billion for transmission upgrades approved last year needed to bring data centers online, with similar results expected this year, according to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Information Charlottesville
(October 10, 2025)
The end is near for AC44, the name given to the update of Albemarle County’s Comprehensive Plan. The document provides overarching guidance for growth and development, including continuation of a policy that restricts growth to about five percent of the county’s landmass.
Information Charlottesville
(October 9, 2025)
In May, Shimp Engineering filed plans for a rezoning of 3.15 acres next to the Cory Farm development The request for the Windy Knoll development was to change the land from Residential-1 to Residential-10 to allow for construction of 22 townhome units... Now Shimp Engineering has returned with an application for Windy Knoll that does just that for a total of 18 units.
Information Charlottesville
(October 9, 2025)
As local governments seek additional revenue to pay for services, one local industry continued to experience growth in 2024. According to data from the Virginia Tourism Corporation, visitors to Albemarle and Charlottesville spent $989.8 million during the year. That’s up 3.5 percent from 2023.
Virginia Mercury
(October 9, 2025)
Global medicine and research corporation AstraZeneca plans to invest $4.5 billion to build two major manufacturing facilities in Albemarle County, establishing a new cornerstone of the company’s U.S. operations and creating 600 jobs in the process.
The Daily Progress
(October 9, 2025)
Construction is underway on pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca's $4.5 billion plant in Albemarle County, which promises to employ 600 people producing weight-loss drugs.
Charlottesville Tomorrow
(October 8, 2025)
A trial over Charlottesville’s zoning ordinance will be heard by a jury, but not until next year. In January 2024, a group of Charlottesville residents sued the city over the ordinance, which the City Council passed unanimously in December 2023 and which took effect in February 2024. Broadly, it allowed for more residential density throughout the city, something known as “upzoning.” Officials and some community members hoped that the new ordinance would open up more affordable housing opportunities for people of various economic statuses.
C-VILLE Weekly
(October 8, 2025)
Riverbend Development intends to use Charlottesville’s new development code to bring as many as 239 apartments to an area of the city that street signs refer to as Downtown Belmont. In late September, the company filed plans with Neighborhood Development Services to demolish a former church at 914 Monticello Rd. and replace it with a 33-unit apartment building.
The Daily Progress
(October 5, 2025)
While the Virginia Department of Transportation marked the return of the school year with a Wednesday warning for pedestrians and motorists to exercise some safety, the state’s cautionary notice found little favor with Charlottesville’s most persistent pedestrian, Kevin Cox. Arrested for chalking an unsanctioned crosswalk across Elliott Avenue in the city after a pedestrian death near the spot, he regards VDOT’s first-of-the-month safety notice as not just insufficient but misleading.
The Daily Progress
(October 4, 2025)
Meredith Richards knows how it feels when a passenger train grinds to a halt as a freight train blocks its path. But thanks to a recently announced legal settlement, the former Charlottesville city councilor and other riders on Amtrak’s Crescent line, which links Central Virginia to New York and New Orleans, may soon find fewer delays.
The Winchester Star
(October 5, 2025)
Efforts to turn part of a former state prison site near White Post into a business park have advanced to the next level. Friday morning, the Clarke County Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend the rezoning of 40 acres off U.S. 340/522 (Stonewall Jackson Highway) from Agricultural-Open Space-Conservation (AOC) to Double Tollgate Light Industrial (DT-LI) and the Highway Access Corridor Overlay District.
Culpeper Star-Exponent
(October 9, 2025)
Dallas-based DataBank has started site work on a pair of “hyperscale ready” data centers at the corner of Route 3 and James Madison Highway just outside the town of Culpeper. The site was buzzing with activity last Thursday and is expected to generate local economic development.
Fauquier Now
(October 10, 2025)
The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors on Thursday adopted a resolution supporting underground high-voltage direct current transmission lines proposed by Dominion Energy through the PJM Interconnection planning process. The board’s action comes as several large transmission projects have been proposed in and through Fauquier County, including one anticipated to go before the county’s Planning Commission next week.
This article mentions Piedmont Environmental Council Director of Land Use Julie Bolthouse.
Fauquier Times
(October 8, 2025)
Daron Culbertson has been a cattle farmer most of his life. The Lee District supervisor works two family farms, runs a livestock fencing business and is a vocal supporter of Fauquier County farmers — which is why his decision to sell his family’s fifth-generation farm to a data center developer was surprising to some, and a betrayal to others.
Fauquier Times
(October 7, 2025)
That process may shed light on the three crucial land-use decisions the commission was directed to review — including the approval of the Amazon data center, Warrenton Village Center and the Arrington development.
Fauquier Times
(October 7, 2025)
Drake, who’s still a full-time federal employee, said she was miserable living in Washington and swapped her high-rise in Pentagon City for a farm in Marshall in 2018. Standing in the center of her flock and petting Prince, her favorite sheep, Drake recalled a trip to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, where she decided to become a shepherd. “I went to the breed display, and I bent over a pen with a lamb,” she said. “It reached up and kissed me, and I said, ‘I'm buying a farm.’"
Fauquier Times
(October 6, 2025)
The Remington Town Council has launched the process of updating the town's comprehensive plan, a document all Virginia municipalities are required to have. The document outlines general goals for transportation, development and affordable housing, and can also touch on public amenities, land use, historic sites and other related topics.
This article mentions The Piedmont Environmental Council.
The Piedmont Journal Recorder
(October 4, 2025)
William E. Polk Jr, mayor of the Town of Remington and Bryan Hofmann, deputy director of Friends of the Rappahannock (FOR) were presented Leadership awards at the Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission’s (RRRC) Annual Meeting Wednesday evening.
This article mentions The Piedmont Environmental Council.
Loudoun Now
(October 10, 2025)
Three months into a free on-demand micro transit service provided by the county government, program administrators say the service is exceeding usage expectations. The one-year pilot program started July 7 in the Leesburg areaand saw an average of 33 rides a day in the first month – that has increased to 120 rides a day in its third month, according to Assistant Director of Transit, Fleet and Commuter Services Scott Gross.
Loudoun Now
(October 9, 2025)
County staff have narrowed down plans for a bypass project on Rt. 15 near the Village of Lucketts from four possible options to one with two differing endings on the northern side of the village. But residents say they feel like the project is moving forward too quickly without taking their input into consideration.
Action 16
(October 9, 2025)
For three decades, Sandra Titcomb made her home in a red-bricked colonial nestled along a northeast Virginia street named after a revolutionary-era British aristocrat. As time passed, the landscape changed. The redbud and dogwood trees receded. Farmland collided with industry. One new neighbor, 1,100 feet from her front door, she came to grudgingly accept—a hulking, brutalist structure, home to a telecommunications data center.
Loudoun Now
(October 7, 2025)
An application to build a new substation along Crosstrail Boulevard near the Tuscarora Crossing neighborhood has been deferred indefinitely, according to Loudoun County Chair Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large). The request was submitted by Tuscarora Landbay 3 LLC and aligns with previously approved plans to construct three data center buildings on the site. However, the proposal has been opposed by nearby residents who say it will have negative impacts on their homes.
Loudoun Now
(October 7, 2025)
A fish count conducted on Goose Creek last week through a partnership between the Goose Creek Association and George Mason University’s Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center documented more than 700 fish and over 20 species in a single 100-meter stretch. The findings are a remarkable indicator of a thriving local ecosystem, according to GCA Executive Director Alyson Borowczyk.
Loudoun Now
(October 7, 2025)
A study group assembled by the Loudoun County Preservation and Conservation Coalition has published a 57-page assessment of groundwater data that is expected to generate new discussions about rural resource protections—if not alarm over declining water levels.
Loudoun Times-Mirror
(October 6, 2025)
Conservationists and rural businesses are both key players in western Loudoun County, but sometimes their interests can clash. Those invested in preserving natural resources might be opposed to development on the land, while those running a farm or winery might see some conservation-minded land use regulations as needlessly restrictive. The county government is trying to find a balance on how land use should be regulated in the rural, western part of Loudoun. By organizing meetings between stakeholders and the county, the Board of Supervisors' Transportation and Land Use Committee is trying to answer a fundamental question: How does the county preserve the county's natural resources while letting rural businesses thrive?
Loudoun Times-Mirror
(October 2, 2025)
Data centers are becoming ubiquitous in Loudoun County. But one potential campus is suggesting something new: pairing its data center with energy storage. The proposed Cochran Tech data center would be located off Cochran Mill Road in the Leesburg election district. The project application includes an energy storage unit applicants, Cochran Tech LC, say could hold enough energy to power about 3,500 homes for 24 hours.
The Piedmont Journal Recorder
(October 10, 2025)
On Thursday night, the Gordonsville Town Council held a public information session at Gordon Barbour Elementary School discussing the possibility of adjusting the town boundary, an idea that has been in consideration for decades.
The Rapidan Register
(September 29, 2025)
The park, located at 17167 Mountain Track Road, was built on land already owned by the county. Board of supervisors chairman and District 1 Supervisor Mark Johnson said the county has owned the land off Mountain Track for more than half a century and aside from the refuse collection station and tower, hasn’t done anything with it except grow trees.
Rappahannock News
(October 5, 2025)
Rappahannock fruit growers could well look back on the 2025 season as among their least bountiful. First it was the peach crop, with losses of up to 70%, victim of unusually warm temperatures in March, followed by a hard April freeze. Now, it’s apparent at harvest time that a similar fate has befallen apples throughout the region.
The Piedmont Journal Recorder
(October 2, 2025)
David’s fascination with the fair’s giant watermelons inspired Gwen, a giant pumpkin grower, to share her passion with her husband. She gave him his first giant watermelon seeds for Christmas, and the couple began cultivating their hefty watermelon and pumpkin entries side-by-side.
InsideNoVa
(October 10, 2025)
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday initiated a Comprehensive Plan Amendment for a new, age-restricted residential complex in the Coles District known as the Kline property.
InsideNoVa
(October 9, 2025)
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday opted to disband the county’s resident-led Data Center Ordinance Advisory Group after months of restructuring and recent controversy, directing the county executive to work directly with staff for future noise and zoning ordinance updates.
Washington Business Journal
(October 8, 2025)
Supervisor Kenny Boddye, D-Occoquan, directed county staff at a Tuesday meeting of the Board of County Supervisors to begin the formal process of eliminating the county’s Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. That district, adopted in 2016, aimed to promote data center development by, among other things, allowing data centers by-right in certain office, flex and industrial zones, where they'd otherwise require elected officials' discretionary approval.
Prince William Times
(October 8, 2025)
A special Prince William County committee working on new rules to deal with noise and other impacts of the exploding data center industry is no more. In a surprise move Tuesday, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted 4-2 after heated debate to disband the “data center ordinance advisory group,” a panel of residents that has been working for about two years to reform the county's noise and zoning regulations to mitigate the impacts of data centers.
InsideNoVa
(October 7, 2025)
Prince William County’s Department of Public Works, Environmental Management Division, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Northern Virginia Regional Commission are exploring local stream health with a unique pilot project. The entities recently introduced freshwater mussels into several restored streams throughout Prince William, according to a county news release. The aim of the initial introduction, officials said, is to evaluate whether the native Eastern Elliptio mussel can survive in local waterways, which will guide future mussel introduction projects.
WUSA 9
(October 3, 2025)
With just weeks until Virginia’s elections, the race for supervisor in Prince William County’s Gainesville District has become a flashpoint in a broader debate sweeping the Commonwealth: the rapid and controversial expansion of data centers.
Prince William Times
(September 30, 2025)
Prince William County Supervisor Andrea Bailey said Monday she could not rule out her support for a data center project proposed behind Four Seasons, a retirement community outside Dumfries, despite the expressed opposition of hundreds of residents.
FFX Now
(October 10, 2025)
A new data center is coming online in Chantilly. Developer Penzance announced yesterday (Thursday) that it recently broke ground and secured $100 million in financing for Chantilly Premier, a three-story data center facility that will occupy approximately 12 acres of land adjacent to the Chantilly Auto Park south of Route 50.
Mountain State Spotlight
(October 5, 2025)
West Virginia ratepayers are seeing rising electricity bills as the regional grid scrambles to meet the massive energy demand from data centers in Virginia. The state’s coal reliance and shrinking population are compounding the problem.
The Northern Virginia Daily
(October 2, 2025)
In a peaceful setting among the rolling hills along U.S. 522 south of Front Royal, scientists from around the world are conducting groundbreaking research about animals and their habitats. In September, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) celebrated 50 years of advancing science, creating global partnerships and coming up with solutions to conservation challenges.
Virginia Mercury
(October 10, 2025)
A George Mason University report released Friday looks at how Virginia can meet its mandatory goal of decarbonizing the state’s utility providers while also getting more localities on board for certain energy projects. It comes as Virginia faces critical energy demands as ratepayers and lawmakers consider how to meet those needs and make utility bills more affordable.
Cardinal News
(October 9, 2025)
Members of a state commission on Wednesday heard a proposal to increase transparency around how often Virginians have their electricity shut off for nonpayment. The plan would involve creating a public website that tracks information such as how many households get their electricity disconnected, how long their power stays off on average and how much money customers owe on their bills at the time of disconnection.
Business Insider
(October 8, 2025)
Amazon-built data centers represent the bulk of the new construction, with 28 planned facilities, according to Business Insider's count. The tech giant had 177 data centers built or in construction nationwide by the end of 2024, according to the analysis. The new planned data centers in Virginia would grow Amazon's fleet to 205, a 15% increase.
Cardinal News
(October 8, 2025)
As we move into the prime leaf-peeping season in Southwest and Southside Virginia over the next two to three weeks, with foliage gradually turning at lower and lower elevations, it is important that we don’t paint with too broad a brush in describing the vividness of the colors, or lack thereof, in various locations across our region. Subtleties of preceding rainfall, temperature microclimates, tree species and many other factors can make a difference within just a few miles in how brilliant or lackluster the fall foliage display is. Which means, if the colors aren’t great near where you live, you can often drive to somewhere not far away to find more vibrant hues.
ABC 13 News
(October 7, 2025)
The Campbell County Board of Supervisors voted against a request that would have brought three data centers to the county. During their regular meeting on Tuesday night, the supervisors voted 5-2 on not rezoning a little over 57 acres of land to allow a company to bring three data centers to Concord.
WHRO
(October 7, 2025)
Most residents and businesses in Virginia are eligible for some form of incentives that reward or cover investments in clean power and energy efficiency. But the opportunities can be easy to miss, and often require navigating a maze of requirements, said Bettina Bergoo, director of affordability and competition at the Virginia Department of Energy. The department recently launched an online platform, called Energy Connect, which aims to make incentives more accessible, including tax credits, loans and direct assistance.
Radio IQ
(October 7, 2025)
Two different pipeline projects are being proposed in Pittsylvania County. The federal government released an environmental assessment of one of them, concluding one pipeline may be sufficient.
Bay Journal
(October 7, 2025)
The York River and Small Coastal Basin Roundtable released the State of the York Watershed System in June, the first report to evaluate the entire watershed in 25 years. That’s partly because the Virginia river, unlike many others of its size in the Chesapeake Bay region, does not have an organization dedicated full-time to advocating for its health.
6 Local News
(October 6, 2025)
Goochland County residents packed a town hall meeting Monday night to voice their opposition to a proposed technology overlay district that would bring data centers to their community, continuing months of heated debate over the development.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
(October 6, 2025)
The city of Richmond wants to set up a solar farm with plantings to encourage bees and other pollinators at the landfill in the east end of the city. The aim is to set aside 14.59 acres for a facility that would generate five megawatts of electricity — enough to power 1,250 homes. It would save the city $160 a year in electric bills. The panels and meadow would be placed on top of a cap over the landfill.
Cardinal News
(October 6, 2025)
The projects would be community solar, which would mean that residents, businesses and governments could have a partial interest in the output, according to New Leaf. New Leaf chose Russell County for the projects because it is in Appalachian Power’s territory, which means it would qualify for the company’s shared solar program, the project manager with New Leaf said earlier. The General Assembly approved the utility’s shared solar program in 2024.
13 News Now
(October 5, 2025)
Virginia’s farmers are turning to high-tech tools to protect the Chesapeake Bay and their bottom line. From GPS-guided tractors to precision fertilizer applications, producers are using data and digital mapping to grow smarter. The technology allows farmers to apply nutrients only where they’re needed, reducing waste and helping keep runoff out of local waterways.
Virginia Pilot
(October 4, 2025)
Newport News leaders highlighted 12 sites throughout the city they plan to target with major projects in the coming years at Thursday’s inaugural Economic Development, Growth and Expansion Summit. One could be used to bring the first data center to the city.
The Washington Post
(October 10, 2025)
I fished for seven hours on the upper Colorado River last week, and I landed an epic haul. I caught my shirtsleeve. I caught my index finger. I caught a stick. I caught the boat — three times. I caught four or five boulders — “catching Colorado,” as it’s known here. Twice I caught the line of Kirk Deeter, the vice president for angling at Trout Unlimited, who was bravely and patiently trying to teach me fly-fishing. And I caught my own rod at least a dozen times, each time creating a mind-boggling tangle of line. But in all that time on the river, there was one thing I did not catch: a fish.
Canary Media
(October 9, 2025)
Power demand from data centers threatens to scuttle utility decarbonization goals, push grid infrastructure to the brink, and drive up electricity costs for everyday customers already struggling to pay their bills. But a new report identifies a strategy that utility planners can take to avoid these problems while still providing data centers with the massive amounts of power they require.
Action 16
(October 9, 2025)
For three decades, Sandra Titcomb made her home in a red-bricked colonial nestled along a northeast Virginia street named after a revolutionary-era British aristocrat. As time passed, the landscape changed. The redbud and dogwood trees receded. Farmland collided with industry. One new neighbor, 1,100 feet from her front door, she came to grudgingly accept—a hulking, brutalist structure, home to a telecommunications data center.
Inside Climate News
(October 8, 2025)
Residents in and around Bessemer expressed continued disapproval of a plan to build a 14.5 million square foot data center in their back yards. Now, the city is one step closer to final approval.
Reuters
(October 2, 2025)
U.S. public power utilities are seeing explosive electricity demand from data centers, with some requests exceeding the total energy currently used by all of their customers combined, CEOs and investors in the not-for-profit power sector said this week. Big Tech’s data center power demand has created an opportunity to grow revenues and investments in the country’s long-stagnant power industry, but the record build-out of energy-intensive server warehouses comes with fresh risks, market participants said at the Large Public Power Council Financial Conference in New York.
Investigate TV
(October 2, 2025)
[Video] Our investigators reveal how these massive warehouses, filled with computer processors and servers that power cloud computing and artificial intelligence, are often constructed next to residential neighborhoods without public input.
Canary Media
(October 10, 2025)
The world is still burning through enormous amounts of coal, but the energy source is stagnating as renewables — and solar in particular — soar.
Virginia Tech News
(October 8, 2025)
While this new era of rapid data center construction aims to power innovation, from scientific breakthroughs to AI-enhanced public services, it comes with distinct challenges and more isn’t always better, warn Virginia Tech artificial intelligence experts Walid Saad and Dimitri Nikolopoulos. Here’s why.
Morningstar
(October 3, 2025)
Artificially low interest rates have stimulated investment into AI that has hit scaling limits, says research firm. It's not just a bubble but an epically sized one, an analyst argues.
IEEE Spectrum
(September 10, 2025)
Reducing AI’s water footprint means tackling two very different issues—what happens inside the data-center walls, and what happens beyond them on the power grid.
