Data Center Reform - 2026

Formed Jan 6 at the Coffee Chat, the following dedicated Democrats are stepping up to establish and organize an Event Task Force platform that will enable the Greene Dems to quickly respond to Greene County residents with viable information on any issue.  First issue -- Data Center Reform!

Thanks to:

Linda Copeland - for taking the lead

June Battaile               Paul Harringon             Lynn Larkins

Polly Callahan             Gail Mickley                  A J Hodder

First Objective:  establish multiple locations, dates, and times that would make town hall style meetings conveniently available to the community for the purpose of diseminating valuable information on any issue or topic of the day.

STAY TUNED to updates as they become available.

Here are some facts about Data Centers and Virginia's association with them.

• Virginia has been identified as the Data Center Capitol of the World with the largest complexes located in Northern Virginia.
• Data centers can range from a small center building that is 10 acres to a data center campus up to 2,700 acres large.  Fermi America is currently planning a 5,800 acre complex in Texas.
• Water consumption is of concern as it is the primary and critical cooling agent to address the immense heat generated by the servers housed in the data centers.  Largee individual data centers can consumeup to 5 million gallons of freshwater daily
• Electricial consumption is of concern as it impacts ALL citizens of Virgina, even those in counties like Greene where a data center doesn't exist...yet.  In Virginia, the current megawatt useage is 6,000+ with a projected usage of 8,857 megawatts once the current construction is completed.

This page will be continually updated as information becomes available.