Imagine a community with as many homes as there are in Richmond and Henrico County popping up in the woods 45 miles west of the city, and the electricity it would use. That’s what just one of the region's latest data centers — EdgeCore Digital’s planned $17 billion, 3.9-million-square-foot facility in Louisa County — will need. Data center developers are already drawing a lot of power. The 451 now running in Virginia, home to the largest concentration of data centers in the w

T he developers who built the world's largest concentration of data centers in Northern Virginia are now eyeing the Richmond area. While some counties here are embracing the projects, others are starting to have second thoughts. Data center developers want to be here. Google's $9 billion plan to build data centers in Virginia means not only expansions at facilities in Loudoun and Prince William counties. It will also include the tech giant's first Richmond-area data center,

As loyal Republicans, Reece Payton said that he and his family of cattle ranchers in Hogansville, Ga., had one thing on their minds when they cast their ballots in November for the state’s utility board — “to make a statement.” They were already irked by their escalating electric bills, not to mention an extra $50 a month levied by their local utility to cover a new nuclear power plant more than 200 miles away. But after they heard a data center might be built next to their L

After the State Corporation Commission last night announced that it was approving a request by Dominion Energy to create a new rate class for large energy users and partially granted a request to increase rates, some community leaders say this is a good first step at regulating the data center industry, while other are raising concerns. The SCC’s final order in the utility company’s biennial review and said the new GS-5 class will be made up of customers requesting 25 megawat

Dominion Energy can go ahead with a controversial gas-fired power plant on the site of its Chesterfield power station, the State Corporation Commission says. The $1.47 billion plant would generate 944 megawatts of electricity when up and running in 2027. Dominion said it needs the facility because of Virginia's soaring electricity demand. Opponents said it flouts state policy, as expressed in the Virginia Clean Economy Act's mandatethat by 2045 Dominion's generating plants em