Data Centers

The Data Center Debate heats up:

Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council Virginia Should Not Tax Away its Data Center Advantage

Residents rely on Freedom of Information Act requests to fight data centers | WVTF By Mason Adams

Commonwealth Institute researcher: Affordability hinges on ensuring data centers pay their fair share of taxes - Cardinal News By Megan Davis

Project Zero: Eliminating Effingham County Property Taxes By Rebecca Buis

‘A Trojan horse’: Northern Virginia congressman pushes national data center legislation – WTOP News By Jimmy Alexander

Analyzing the US data center construction boom | Construction Dive By Sebastian Obando & Jasmine Ye Han

Real estate lawyer: A data center moratorium is not data center policy - Cardinal News By Jared Burden

Data center backlash hits Virginia elections - Axios Richmond By Sabrina Moreno

Belvedere Plantation's owners are betting the farm on a data center. Neighbors fear they'll reap the harvest. - Fredericksburg Free Press By Taft Coghill Jr.

Data Center Revolt Accelerates Ahead Of Midterms As Wells Fargo Warns Of Fourfold Jump In Active Moratoriums | ZeroHedge By Tyler Durden

The energy Virginia needs is the energy we can build now • Virginia Mercury By Jack Wilson

Data center development turns some landowners into millionaires: "Who wouldn't jump at the opportunity?" - CBS News By Kelly O'Grady, Maya Blackstone, & Kerry Breen

Data center backlash hits Virginia elections - Axios Richmond By Sabrina Moreno

$39 Million Was Spent to Turn You Against Data Centers — Here’s Who Was Behind It * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hᴏft

Power grid auction falls short of meeting 2028-29 energy needs, organizing group cites data centers By Eleanor Shaw

(1) The All-In Podcast on X: "David Sacks: Trump’s Instincts on AI and Data Centers Are Right @Jason: “Trump is going to turn out to be right about this data center issue.” @DavidSacks: “I have told you guys before that Trump is ultimately the best friend of innovators in Washington. If anybody could https://t.co/adt9CGJ5D3" / X

Nearly half of Pennsylvania's 'fast track' data center municipalities signed NDA's | Just The News By Ford Turner

Inside the Left’s Anti-Data Center Movement By Stu Smith

Search Data Centers: Colocation, Bare Metal, Cloud By Datacenters.com - a technology marketplace and aggregator.

AI Data Centers: The Lifeline of the Forgotten Man By Dmitri Bolt

Can Trump Save Public Perception of Data Centers? By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

(7) Innovation Council on X: "🚨 WATCH: This is what data centers done right looks like. West Virginia just announced $81 BILLION in new investment. @WVGovernor says the state will protect ratepayers and water supplies while using data center revenue to lower—and ultimately ELIMINATE—the state income tax. https://t.co/a9b08URj2E" / X

Lynchburg-based Delta Star to be acquired at time of ‘unprecedented demand’ for transformers - Cardinal News By Matt Busse

Do you hate Data centers? Turns out it’s probably because of China propaganda (just like Covid) By The Capitalist

Analysis: Gov. Spanberger Is Leading – Virginia Free Press By Martin A. Davis, Jr.

(3) Rothmus 🏴 on X: "122 days. That’s how long private capital needed to turn a dead Memphis factory into a 100,000 chip AI cluster and then double it. The grid couldn’t carry the load, so they ran gas turbines on site, took the air quality fight from neighborhood groups, and kept building while the https://t.co/LYa7anKU98" / X

Demand for data center land remains high in Virginia - Virginia Business By Jim Morrison

Loudoun County weighs ending grandfathered data center exemptions By Kaela Roeder

What the Data-Center Backlash Could Cost Us By Shawn Regan

Meta unveils massive Kuna data center with eco-friendly design, $100M in city infrastructure investment | ktvb.com By Cooper Morgan

The Push for Battery Storage Is On – Virginia Free Press By Martin A. Davis, Jr.

How data centers are impacting Northern Virginia real estate - Axios Washington D.C. By Mimi Montgomery

16 Stunning Data Points on Data – Virginia Free Press By Chris Saxman

N. Va. political leaders scramble to meet evolving public sentiment on data centers | FFXnow By Scott McCaffrey

Chesterfield delays data center plan to cut car taxes - Axios Richmond By Sabrina Moreno

Data Centers Make $203bn in Economic Sense for Virginia – Virginia Free Press By Bill Bolling

Will public backlash kill Virginia's data center boom? - Virginia Business By Jim Morrison

Second Largest US Grid Operator Proposes Reliability Rules For Data Centers | ZeroHedge By Ethan Howland

National security consultants: Virginia's power grid is approaching its limit. Here's what that means for national defense. - Cardinal News By Jonathon Monken & Leah Emanuel

(7) Innovation Council on X: "🔥🔥🔥 @DavidSacks on @IngrahamAngle: "The AI boom is allowing us to re-industrialize America...It is a little bit surprising to hear some of these Democrats say that they are against the creation of these new blue collar jobs." "This is why you're seeing union leaders come out https://t.co/iDcavQbCXW" / X

LG Electronics Plans Virginia Chiller Plant for AI Data Centers - Seoul Economic Daily By Koo Kyung-Woo

County Executive Announces $110 Million Community Benefit Agreement • Frederick County By Vivian Laxton

wsj.com Important @WSJ editorial board essay on "The Data Center Panic and U.S. Decline"

Effingham County Approves 6-Mill Property Tax Cut - Effingham Herald

(4) Bad Hombre on X: "While waging a propaganda war against data-center construction in America aimed at low-information voters, China is offering American companies attractive incentives to build data centers there: 1. $295 billion in direct public funding to help build your project. 2. 50%" / X

Data center moratoriums hit public schools and taxpayers | COMMENTARY | Opinion By Paul Steidler

PSC boosts safeguards in Georgia Power's massive contract with OpenAI - The Current By Mary Landers

Data Center Polling Shifts — But Needs More Cowbell – Virginia Free Press By Chris Saxman

Google will pay $716M for data center power in Arkansas - Axios NW Arkansas By Worth Sparkman

(8) Innovation Council on X: ""If data centers disappeared from Loudoun County, Va.—known as Data Center Alley—homeowners would need to pay $5,800 more a year in property tax for the same government services, according to one analysis." The Data Center Panic and U.S. Decline https://t.co/lEoM9UE2nt" / X

X flags 200 accounts it says could manipulate US debate over AI, energy policy | Fox Business By Alex Nitzburg

West Virginia Gov. Morrisey plans to end income tax via data centers | Fox News By Charles Creitz

Americans love AI. They don’t want the data centers that power it. - POLITICO By Ben Johansen

(7) Innovation Council on X: "👷‍♂️👷‍♂️👷‍♂️ Union leader on data centers: "We haven't seen this kind of investment in skilled trades in generations." Don Slaiman says blue-collar workers have a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to reach the upper-middle class. https://t.co/Okz3I2QM8M" / X

(4) mike bski on X: "If Trump Wants Data Centers, They Should Be In His Backyard. Google It... Oops. They Already Are." / X

Lowe's coalition targets 1 million skilled trades workers by 2035 | Fox Business By Eric Revell

(6) Barrett Linburg on X: "There are currently 23 data centers inside Dallas City limits There has been one noise complaint since January of 2025. It was investigated by code compliance and no action was taken These facilities are valued at $1.5B on the tax rolls https://t.co/gBTuE8PJqr" / X

SPN Meeting Offers Expert Insights on Data Centers and Media Strategy By Rebecca Buis

Made in America: How AI keeps this U.S. factory competitive : NPR By Andrea Hsu

Data centers are unpopular. Here’s why Trump doesn’t care. - POLITICO By Megan Messerly

(6) SpaceXAI Memphis on X: "11 turbines successfully powered down at our Southaven facility. SpaceXAI remains committed to being a responsible neighbor and we’ll continue to rapidly remove the temporary, mobile turbines over the next year as our new 1.2 GW power plant comes online under the Clean Air Act" / X

Opinion | How data centers can win over skeptical communities - The Washington Post By Taylor Budowich

Columbia County advances $17 billion data center deal By Rudy Miller

No One Has Run the AI Studies, but Everyone Has Their AI Verdict By Kyle Saunders

Republicans Are Being Shockingly Smart on Data Centers By Kurt Schlichter

Texas Governor Race Heats Up Over Data Centers By Emily Medeiros

Developer offers $10K to every household in Pa. township. The catch? Data center approval. - lehighvalleylive.com By WRDW staff

Tech Firms Brought Data Center Hate Upon Themselves By Larsen Jensen

(2) @amuse on X: "The Data Center Panic Is Built on Myths and Americans Are Falling for Them Hook, Line, and Sinker" / X

Data Center Tax Break Under Fire - The Daily Signal By Rich Tucker

X Uncovers a Massive Chinese Bot Farm Pushing Anti-Data Center Propaganda By Dmitri Bolt

STEPHEN MOORE: Data centers are creating the blue-collar jobs America needs | Fox News

(2) Sam Lyman on X: "Understand that the anti-data center movement is, at its core, a deindustrialization movement. So of course China is pushing it. The US is manufacturing, at scale, the most valuable resource in the modern economy: artificial intelligence. But already, the NIMBY/anti-AI https://t.co/2iJjgDPQeW" / X

Charles Payne: AI data centers are a chance to revitalize towns, states | Fox Business Video By Charles Payne

Patrick Ruffini on X: "Voters are open to making a deal on data centers. What kind of deal doesn't even matter. https://t.co/nvgdVLSS12" / X

Truckers are finally making real money again, and AI is a big reason why - MarketWatch By Claudia Assis

America's data center revolt is getting a boost from China-linked bots By Josephine Walker

Opposition To Data Centers Isn't What The Tech Right Thinks It Is By John Daniel Davidson

(4) Crémieux on X: "Under the guise of making data centers "pay their fair share", Oregon has increased their electric rates and cut the rates consumers pay. The data centers are still happy to pay, and consumers are happy to get a bill cut. Close enough to a win-win! https://t.co/wdpCVWP2lT" / X

NDAs are hiding data center deals, drawing ire from locals — and attention from lawmakers By Drew Hawkins

(6) stephen balaban on X: "100% Agree @GavinSBaker. Now, I'm going to debunk every single piece of mis-information about data centers that I've ever seen online: > DISINFORMATION: Data centers use a lot of water. FACT: Most AI data centers are closed loop dry cooler design that barely consume any water" / X

Opposition to Data Centers Is Self-Destructive | National Review By The Editors

When AI Starts Saying ‘No.’ - by Sharyl Attkisson

Virginia county's AI data center addiction By Jessica Wong

(2) @amuse on X: "DATA CENTERS: There is a myth that AI servers are somehow more dangerous than normal servers. We are told they use more power and create more heat. The reality is the opposite. For example, Dell's PowerEdge R660, designed for web, database, VMs, or storage, uses MORE power per U https://t.co/mNXpvRhHSK" / X

Backlash Against AI Data Centers Is Real, Organic, Widespread | RealClearPolitics By Brendan Steinhauser

Steve Everley on X: "Banning data centers may quickly become a political loser. Labor unions are “threatening to withhold support of candidates opposing the data-center projects.” https://t.co/IIYDJ9XuHS" / X

Top U.S. States for AI Data Centers And Infrastructure Growth By Matt Swayne

Trump wants Americans to embrace artificial intelligence, data centers | Fox Business By James Cirrone

(4) Crémieux on X: "In Louisiana, data center deals are letting them freeze customer bills and expand energy production so the grid can be more reliable and cleaner. Thanks, data centers! https://t.co/OCBOjJITvD" / X

Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment - POLITICO By Gabby Miller & Owen Dahlkamp

Fetterman rejects data center and AI 'doomsdaying' after Shapiro executive order By Carter Schroppe

Data centers are drinking more water, but overall water use in Virginia has gone down anyway. Here are the numbers. - Cardinal News By Dwayne Yancey

Outrunning Democracy - Richard Hanania's Newsletter Why the anti-data center movement will lose

The thousand-dollar line • Virginia Mercury By Tommy Turner

Data center backlash is preventing cities from learning how to handle them - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists By Abi Olvera

The AI Land and Water Panic Is Wrong - Human Progress By Marian L. Tupy

Everyone is making a U-turn on data centers as public support craters - POLITICO By Andrew Howard

A Guy on X Striving to be the VA Change Agent on X: "👉People act like data centers are uniquely draining America’s water. - U.S. golf courses used roughly 530 billion gallons. - U.S. data centers’ direct water consumption in 2023 was about 17.4 billion gallons, with projections rising into the tens of billions in the coming" / X

Why No One Trusts Data Centers and Flock Cameras By Erick Erickson

Data center backlash could threaten US AI boom | Fox News Video The Ingrahm Angle with Lydia Moynihan

Rapid Response 47 on X: ".@POTUS on data centers: "If you pick the right location, what it means for a community is jobs and lots of money and lower taxes. The data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity, so they're not taking it from the grid." https://t.co/RgzmWT5kio" / X

GOP gives candidates room to break on data centers By Brett Hall

(5) @amuse on X: "DATA CENTERS: Nancy Pelosi's handpicked successor is pushing the Chinese-backed data-center-ban narrative. She wants to slow down American AI development, allowing China to beat the US in the AI race. https://t.co/Xs5e82UZFW" / X

I Made a Website to Monitor Data Center Effects on Electricity Prices By Cremieux Recueil

(1) Smirkley on X: "Do datacenters or Democrats make electricity more expensive? Home electricity price, pop weighted. Data center capacity per resident is negatively correlated: r = -0.37. Democrat control of state gov is positively correlated: r = +0.70 https://t.co/pklUsrlirK" / X

I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers By Andy Masley: It’s probably not your ideological thing, or mine. It’s about object-level claims about how data centers impact the communities where they’re built, many of which are wrong.

(1) Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy on X: "VIRGINIA IS FOR NUCLEAR ❤️: North Anna Power Station’s two reactors generate more than 1,800 megawatts of electricity — enough to power around 450,000 Virginia homes. Unit 2 first connected to the grid on this day back in 1980. https://t.co/yvI2HKoJR2" / X

Data Center NIMBYs Are Killing $1 Trillion in AI Infrastructure | Garry's List By Garry Tan

City Journal on X: "Texas has more planned data-center capacity than any other state by far. ERCOT says it is considering more than 474 gigawatts of grid-connection requests from large users—more than five times its all-time peak demand, and nearly all of it coming from proposed data centers. https://t.co/PPQmhmNp9E" / X

(3) X Freeze on X: "SpaceX’s space data center idea is actually much simpler than most people imagine A data center sounds like this massive complicated building full of wires and boxes But when you strip everything away and it basically comes down to chips, power and cooling The chips themselves" / X

Data Center Madness Isn’t About AI - Cremieux Recueil

Virginia is developing a piecemeal data center moratorium. The potential impacts are complicated. - Cardinal News By Dwayne Yancey

U.Va.’s planned data center expands $30 million amid statewide debate over energy use - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia's Student Newspaper By Jaylynn Perez

I Made a Website to Monitor Data Center Effects on Electricity Prices By Cremieux

As Va. officials weigh data center pushback, report details industry’s public service funding • Virginia Mercury By Charlotte Rene Woods & Shannon Heckt

(1) Rich Lowry on X: "“Data centers represent the best opportunity in generations for blue-collar workers to attain a portion of the American dream. A decade ago, members of my union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26, in the Washington, D.C., region, worked about 14 million" / X

PJM Eyes Incentives for Data Centers to Supply Their Own Power | News | loudounnow.com By Hanna Pampaloni

People Say They Dislike Data Centers, but How Much Do They Really Know about Them? – Virginia Free Press By Martin A. Davis Jr.

For politicians from Ohio to Texas, Virginia to California, red to blue, data centers are the new ‘us vs. them’ fight | CNN Politics By Inside Politics

(1) Stu Smith on X: "It’s the Week of Action Against ALPRs, so I put together a collage of flyers from across the nation. The groups behind it are largely the usual suspects of the abolitionist left, from DSA and PSL chapters to local bail funds, CAIR affiliates, and other activist groups. https://t.co/zyfG3CguTX" / X

The Mid-Atlantic's electric grid operator is taking steps to rein in data center demand By Katherine Hafner

Ellwood Thompson's parent company acquired by data center owner By David M. Poole

General Assembly launches effort to study tax exemptions, consumption tax for data centers - Cardinal News By Elizabeth Beyer

Critics challenge Fairfax County police use of AI-powered license plate cameras - WTOP News By Gigi Barnett

I Went to the Data Center Town Hall at Studio Two Three - RVA Mag By R. Anthony Harris

(5) Crémieux on X: "Trump's home, Palm Beach County, has 12 operating data centers and 3 data centers in various stages of construction. The national median is 0. The national average is just over 1. Adjacent counties average 2. Why don't people grasp that rich places have more data centers? https://t.co/RL8CVyU9VL" / X

Chesterfield Board indicates it won’t approve any more data centers in the county By Eleanor Shaw

GOP Candidate Leverages Data Center Backlash in Wisconsin By Robert R. Bluey

Guest Column: Are data centers a FOIA tipping point? | Headlines | insidenova.com By Megan Rhyne

Chesapeake moves to restrict data center development, Virginia Beach presses pause By Toby Cox & John-Henry Doucette

As some states restrict AI data centers, critics call PA’s new standards ‘quixotically foolish’ - Heartlander News By Audrey Steb

Pittsylvania County OKs data center tax rate By Charles Wilborn

Texas has now surpassed Virginia for data center construction | KXAN Austin By Justin Sayers

Warren County Supervisor charged with assault following altercation after data center hearing | FOX 5 DC By Tom Fitzgerald

Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 on X: "People are about twice as likely to approve of **coal plants** being built nearby as opposed to data centers. Coal plants use more water and pollute more. They create comparable noise pollution. There's no way this makes sense outside a media panic. https://t.co/ZDG7SfU6BQ" / X