Elected officials from both parties and chambers gathered in Richmond Tuesday to announce new guardrails on the state’s rapidly expanding data center industry. Responsible for billions in state and local revenue, the facilities have still generated outcry from communities.
A state watchdog report found data centers are incredibly profitable. Like ‘$9 billion a year’ profitable. But they’re big, loud, and don’t offer much in the way of jobs once they’re built.
Democratic Senator Russet Perry’s Loudoun County-based district hosts the largest concentration of data centers in the world. She said the period of unregulated growth must come to an end…