STERLING, Virginia — Lindsay Shaw was happy when she found out a data center was going up 100 meters from her front door. Unlike most of her neighbors, she preferred a supercomputing hub to a shopping mall, which might bring a crush of car traffic. She was even more pleased when she learned the data center would generate its own power — rather than connecting to the grid and driving up her electric bills. But then the data center turned on, along with the eight natural gas tu

FLUVANNA COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - A proposed roughly $1 billion, 115-mile electric transmission line project was front and center in Fluvanna County on Tuesday, March 10, as hundreds of community members gathered for an open house to ask questions and, for many, to voice concerns. Valley Link, a joint venture between Dominion Energy, FirstEnergy Transmission, LLC, and Transource Energy, LLC, is planning the Joshua Falls-Yeat Transmission Line Project, at 765 kilovolts, the highe

Two energy giants, Dominion and AEP, are planning to build a high voltage transmission line between substations near Lynchburg and Culpeper. At the Piedmont Environmental Council, analyst Mike Barber says it will have a huge impact on natural resources stretching 115 miles. "It’s going to covert somewhere north of 2,700 acres of land to utility right-of-way, and all of that is land that’s currently forested or farmed— natural open space or someone’s backyard," he explains. "T

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - A roughly $1 billion electric transmission line project could soon cover about 115 miles of land in Central Virginia, stretching from Campbell County to Culpeper County. Valley Link, a joint venture between Dominion Energy, FirstEnergy Transmission, LLC, and Transource Energy, LLC, is planning the Joshua Falls-Yeat Transmission Line Project, at 765 kilovolts, the highest-capacity power lines in the state and the nation. “What we’re trying to do w

Families won’t see relief from rising electricity prices anytime soon, as demand from artificial intelligence data centers soars while power supply grows slowly, according to Goldman Sachs. Electricity prices jumped 6.9% in 2025 year over year, more than double the headline inflation rate of 2.9%, Goldman analysts told clients in a research note published Wednesday. Prices will continue to rise through the end of the decade, as data centers make up 40% of electricity demand g