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SWVA DCTA a nonpartisan coalition of organizations dedicated to the well-being of our communities by protecting our region and its resources from the destructive impacts of unregulated hyperscale data centers. Our concern is derived from the lack of transparent decision-making by our elected officials, appointed board members, and big-tech business interests. This feed serves as just one media type with which we hold our elected officials accountable.
Unknown Host hosts You Can't Drink Data, a news show with 27 episodes published.
The open land is the Wood Haven Technology Park. And the public-private partnership that governs it is the Western Virginia Regional Industrial Facility Authority, which markets it to potential data center developers.
Read the receipts here. The comparison suggests that the Botetourt County sale occurred at a substantially lower price-per-acre valuation than several other recent data center-related transactions.
While the announcement means a theoretical reduction in water usage, the air cooling technology, which is necessary to prevent a data center's racks of servers from overheating and catching fire, requires significantly m
As a former developer of large scale energy projects, I'm incredibly intrigued by the distinct contrast of specificity between the recent data center codes compared to previously existing codes for projects of similar sc
We should consider treating data centers like utilities like ApCo or the Western Virginia Water Authority. The companies that operate them sure do want us to depend on them like utilities, so maybe we should oblige them
Water Authority leader says further data center development negotiations aren't happening, contrary to written conversations
The most vociferous criticism came from Roanoke Vice Mayor Terry McGuire, who hopes the City Council will return to the topic at a later date to strengthen its protections against explosive data center growth
The public has repeatedly heard that the project may need up to 8 million gallons of water per day. But public records show that behind the scenes, the planning discussions were larger and more troubling.
We are one year out since Botetourt County announced it had sold 312 acres to Google for a data center campus, the Western Virginia Water Authority’s Chief Engineer and Strategist Will Bulloss published an op-ed defendin
A cross-state, cross-partisan coalition of organizations has signed onto an open letter calling on the governor and House of Delegates to end a data center tax exemption costing the state billions of dollars per year.
What to know before you go to Wednesday’s Google data center informational “fair” in Botetetourt. It is not a done deal.
Rural county governments are being wooed by slick promotions of easy revenue by the data center industry while omitting crucial information
According to an RSVP form and flyer on the official website for the development, the open house will be on Wednesday, June 17 from 5pm to 7pm in Daleville.
The project would require more than a gigawatt of power, consist of about nine to 11 buildings totaling 3.5 million to 4 million square feet, take up approximately 1,000 acres.
The Southwest Virginia Data Center Transparency Alliance is publishing a resolution for local committees of both Democratic and Republican parties to support an end to Virginia's data center sales and use tax exemption.
Learn more about responsible data center development and those citizens fighting for their communities at www.swvadcta.org.
Protesters with Roanoke Indivisible rally for May Day at Rivers Edge Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Roanoke. The peaceful demonstration was part of a nation-wide day of protest, and this one united Southwest Virginians to def
Botetourt County Board of Supervisors Amsterdam District representative Tim Snyder hosts his monthly town hall-style meeting with constituents at VFW Lord Botetourt Post 1841 in Daleville, Va. Guest speaker and Director
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