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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's out in Ashburn. Now we can't build data centers out in the exurbs?[/quote]

Not sure Ashburn is an exurb and if it was, why would this matter? People live in these places, and their lives are no less important than yours.

I really don’t want them built anywhere because they are a huge resource suck no matter where they are built and they are ruining peoples’ way of life (and probably all of our livelihoods).

I am lucky I live in Fairfax county where it is already very filled in and there are no data centers very close to my house, though it looks like they are building one across from my kid’s school. Hopefully our county government doesn’t get any big ideas and start selling park land.[/quote]

The datacenters were there in Ashburn before the houses. AOL opened up its campus off Broderick Drive (off Waxpool) in the mid 1990s. Equinix, Global Center, and UUNet built all their datacenters off Smith Switch Road around that time too. Back then, it was all fields around there -- no housing developments.

The people who bought in those areas knew full well what was there -- there were signs all over advertising land for sale, zoned for datacenters.[/quote]

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