…the data center operator behind the planned Culpeper Technology Campus. The amendment will increase how much noise pollution the data centers can emit in residential areas and exempt construction noise…
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On the Ground Updates – September 2025
Albemarle & Charlottesville As Albemarle County updates its Data Center Ordinance, PEC is strongly advocating that all proposed data centers larger than 40,000 square feet be required to go through…
Op-Ed: Protect Virginians from paying billions for data center infrastructure
…centers consume unprecedented amounts of energy. Billions of dollars of new power generation and transmission infrastructure is needed to meet data center demand. As of now, all of Virginia’s ratepayers…
Winter Orange County Updates
…County Approves Technology Zoning District, Town Considers Data Centers Data center in nearby Culpeper County. Photo by Hugh Kenny/PEC. Last month, despite opposition from dozens of residents, the Board of…
Data Center Reform is at the Finish Line: Will the General Assembly Get it Done?
WARRENTON, Va. (Feb. 20, 2026) – Two important data center reform bills, SB619 and SB339 survived crossover – bringing the General Assembly that much closer to passing real data center…
Data Centers in the Town of Orange? Protecting Our Small-Town Character
…current data center market – focused on data centers of 100,000 square-feet and larger (“hyperscale” data centers) – threatens to overwhelm and industrialize small towns like Orange and strain local…
Piedmont Environmental Council Statement on the Potomac River Being Named the Most Threatened River in America
…data center growth throughout the watershed. The Potomac River borders and serves Loudoun County, a major suburb of the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA) and home to the data center capital…
Action Needed: New transmission line designation threatens Virginia communities
…will add insult to injury by supercharging the data center and fossil fuel industries, adding capacity and new lines between the Northern Virginia data center market and coal power plants…
Update on Data Centers in Culpeper and Invite to Upcoming Rooftop Solar Lecture
…Supervisors’ latest action on the proposed Keyser Farm data center campus; and an unexpected development in our continued fight against the Copper Ridge data center campus in the Town of…
Virginia citizens and businesses have opportunity to weigh in with the SCC on data centers and the long term impact on their energy costs
…to pass meaningful data center reform, despite the introduction of bi-partisan bills to rein in data center impacts and protect Virginia ratepayers from increased energy costs. Gov. Youngkin vetoed even…