Virginia Lawmakers Struggle Over Data Center Boom

Virginia Lawmakers Struggle Over Data Center Boom

News ClipState Affairs·VA·3/12/2026

This article discusses the challenges Virginia lawmakers face in trying to impose restraints on the growing data center industry in the state. It highlights the political difficulties of building support for measures like moratoriums or zoning changes to limit data center development, which has become an established industry in Virginia.

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Virginia illustrates for data center critics how difficult it is to build enough political support to impose restraints on an established industry.
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