Ashburn data centers
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Anonymous
| They're proposing to build one in the Sully District, did you hear? I'm against it and plan on letting the Board know at the next meeting. |
Anonymous
You do that. Juli Briskman will just smile and vote to approve it. |
Anonymous
Sully is in Fairfax, not Prince William |
Anonymous
I love her so much! |
Anonymous
| Data Centers are probably causing increased amounts of stupid in that part of Loudoun County |
Anonymous
Juli is the worst supervisor this county has ever had. She is so arrogant and despises her voters. Vote blue no matter who got us into this mess and Loudoun county has very few competitive local elections anymore. |
Anonymous
| This is not your HOA forum, Cassie. |
Anonymous
If Republicans can’t keep from running MAGA numbskulls (like Juli’s previous two opponents), our district will keep voting for her. |
Anonymous
Yes, I agree but at this point a MAGA republican would be better than Juli to prevent bad decisions. We have more than enough data centers and Dems keep on approving them anyway. There needs to be some balance for the county boards or they just ignore voters because the elections are not remotely competitive. Unless the Dems or Republicans are worried about losing their majority in the county they will do whatever the hell they want to the detriment of county residents. |
Anonymous
| Data centers are great tax generators with less wear and tear than other uses. |
Anonymous
They certainly don't complain about airplane noise or public bathrooms in parks. |
Anonymous
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Data centers are huge “global warming” boosters
But since the Earth is still coming out of an ice age and nothing abnormal is occurring except liberals having their latest “religion alternative” hissy fit they are absolutely fine |
Anonymous
Alright that is nice, but the amount of additional electricity that is needed for all of the approved, but not yet built data centers in Northern Virginia alone is equal to multiple Nuclear Power plants. Data centers consumed 21% of of Dominion energy’s electricity supply in 2022 and 24% in 2023. It will be well over a quarter this year. NOVEC is projecting 12% annual load growth for electricity consumption through the next 15 years and this is almost entirely due to data centers (5x electricity load needed by 2040). PWC. Approved the digital gateway and this project alone will require around 3 Gigawatts, which is equal to the electricity output of around 1.5x of the nuclear power plant at lake Anna. This is completely unsustainable and Northern Virginia cannot keep on approving them at this point. SCOTUS also killed Chevron deference so the EPA will be of minimal help to effectively regulate pollution going forward. We are on our own and will suffer the consequences of air pollution from the tens of thousands of desiel generators needed for all of the data centers. |
Anonymous
| Yes, datacenters use power, but the power goes to cloud computing applications like Zoom and Google that enable people to work from home instead of driving to work. |
Anonymous
Those are backup generators if the power fails. They're generally fired up once a month for about 10 minutes for routine testing and that's it. |