…quotes from PEC in local and national news publications. PEC’s Data Center Campaign Virginia is undergoing a massive economic, technological, and environmental transformation, all centered around the activities of one…
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Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for January 13, 2025
…hour and rezoning a property to business Greene County Supervisors will formally vote to end the study of rural enterprise centers as an approved use The Greene County Planning Commission…
Cville Area Land Use Week Ahead for August 28, 2025: UVA Board of Visitors to consider pursuit of Federal Executive Institute
…to proceed with an upgrade of the fire training center valued at $75,000. (learn more) There is a resolution to approve the conveyance of roads deemed no longer necessary for…
Cville Area Land Use Week Ahead for May 12, 2025
…Shipman. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. at the Shipman Community Center at 22 Nelson Avenue in Shipman. “The village of Shipman is located in south-central Nelson County,…
Why Should Virginians Pay Big Tech’s Electric Bills?
…fair guidelines to prevent ordinary residents from subsidizing the world’s most profitable companies. Data centers should pay their own business expenses PEC is asking the SCC to require data centers and…
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for September 29, 2025
…at 10 a.m. at the North Fork Meeting Center at 994 Research Park Boulevard. (meeting materials) Here’s previous coverage from other meetings to give a sense of what can happen…
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for November 30, 2025
…set up data centers at the Shannon Hill Regional Business Park On Wednesday, the Fluvanna Supervisors will approve the hiring of a firm to conduct the county’s next property assessment…
Significant Impacts of Tenaska’s Proposed Gas Power Plant
…of energy for approximately 17% of Virginia’s pre-data center energy needs. This Tenaska proposal, and the associated transmission line infrastructure being built, will primarily serve the energy demands of the data center industry in…
Two Bills with potential to pause data center approvals and plan responsibly for the future
The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) supports HB1515, introduced by Delegate Irene Shin last Friday. This bill aligns with PEC’s data center reform efforts to pause approvals of hyperscale data center…
An Electric Super-Highway Through the Piedmont
…where electric generation and demand are changing. The unconstrained growth of data centers has altered demand substantially in Virginia, and each new data center approved by localities adds more energy demand to…