Rally in Annandale Calls for Virginia Data Center Moratorium
About 200 people rallied outside Starwood Capital’s planned Plaza 500 data center site in the Bren Mar Park community to support a moratorium on data center development in Virginia. The project would be built by right near residential neighborhoods, making it a focus of local opposition.
About 200 residents and activists rallied and marched Oct. 10 outside the Plaza 500 site in the Bren Mar Park community, where Starwood Capital plans to build a large data center complex near residential neighborhoods. Organizers and attendees called for a moratorium on data center development across Virginia.
The rally was one item in FFXnow’s roundup of Northern Virginia news. The article also noted unrelated road, school, restaurant, retail and weather updates, including a temporary closure of Henderson Road in Clifton after a truck spilled milk crates.