Heat Wave Prompts Emergency Measures for Data Centers in Virginia

This summer’s heat is a live stress test for data centers — here’s what it’s revealing in real time

This summer has already produced three answers to questions the data center industry would have preferred to leave theoretical. In May, the PJM Interconnection — the grid operator serving data center-dense northern Virginia — received emergency authorization from the Energy Department to curtail power to data centers due to “atypically hot mid-May weather conditions.” In []

We Mapped Rural Data Center Development – and Opposition. Here's What We Found.

Washington, D.C.'s metropolitan area has long hummed with data centers. The region, which encompasses much of Northern Virginia, has become known as Data Center Alley, home to more data centers than anywhere else in the world. But the data center boom, driven by the rise of AI and the race to build the infrastructure powering it, is changing the geography of these energy-intensive, warehouse-like facilities. Data centers have arrived in rural America...

DC orders immediate activation of heatwave relief camps

DC orders immediate activation of heatwave relief camps

Virginia county asks employees to ‘turn off’ lights as electricity rates jump 25%

A Virginia county, which contains 37 operating data centers and has plans to build at least 17 more, recently asked teachers and other county employees to start switching off their lights as the area’s electricity rates jump 25, starting Wednesday. The increase in electricity costs for Henrico County government and school buildings will add an []

Divided over data centers – Illinois Times

Political parties split on whether to welcome data centers.