Gigaland: New Packaging, Same Harmful Impacts
Gigaland is back with its latest proposal, renamed Remington Digital Campus. While the new proposal represents a smaller footprint (a relative term when talking about millions of square feet) for its six data center buildings, …
New Study Examines Potential Air Quality and Public Health Impacts of Remington Data Center’s Proposed Use of Natural Gas Turbines
The developer of Remington Technology Park data center campus, PointOne, proposed building an onsite power plant of 13 gas turbines in early 2026. In April 2026, PEC decided to commission a study of the cumulative …
Another Electric Super-Highway Proposed to Serve Data Centers
This project would consist of 260 miles of new 765-kilovolt (kV) transmission lines connecting the John Amos coal plant in Putnam County, West Virginia (the location of a well-known coal-fired power plant), and the Rocky …
Clarke County Rural Lands Plan
The Clarke County Planning Staff have completed the draft of the new Rural Lands Plan. Now the Planning Commission has set a public hearing for Friday, July 10 …
Remington Tech Park Developer Plans a Permanent Gas Fuel Cell Power Plant
The Remington Tech Park data center campus developer, PointOne, has proposed an onsite power plant that would rely on natural gas fuel cells. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hear the application on July 9 …
Send SCC Comments: Expanded Southwest Mountains Transmission Line
The Charlottesville-Gordonsville transmission line expansion project is directly driven by the 26 data center requests in Louisa and Culpeper counties that Dominion has received over the last five years …
Old Mills Trail Extension: Long-Time Greenway Vision Coming into View
Albemarle is beginning the first phase of a planned project to extend the Old Mills Trail four miles downstream. There it will eventually connect to a future park at Milton Landing and an existing greenway …
Virginians’ Electric Bills Are on the Line – and the SCC is Deciding
The General Assembly and Governor let us down. Now the SCC must act to protect residents from rising electricity costs. A data center, electrical substation and transmission line. Photo by Hugh Kenny/PEC. Despite poll after …
Through creativity and collaboration, a Greene County farm stays in the family for the fourth generation
Dustin always wanted to carry on the tradition as the fourth-generation family member to own the farm. His great-grandfather bought the farm in 1939, and it had passed down to his grandfather …
