The Verge Profiles Loudoun County, Home to ~250 Data Centers as Community Backlash Builds
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The Verge publishes a long feature by Lauren Feiner on Loudoun County, Virginia — dubbed 'Data Center Alley' — which now hosts roughly 250 data centers with hundreds more planned. The piece traces how the AI buildout is reshaping the county's power grid, water use and politics, and how a widening community backlash is beginning to constrain hyperscaler expansion in the region.
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Massive AI infrastructure is being built out across the US. But if you want to know what the data center occupation looks like, visit Loudoun County, Virginia, where that future arrived 20 years ago. www.theverge.com/cs/…
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Massive AI infrastructure is being built out across the US, and it’s probably coming for your state. There’s one place where the data center occupation already arrived – 20 years ago. So if you want to know what it w…
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