The tech industry's drive to dot the Virginia landscape with data centers may have hit a glitch this week in Prince William County.
Residents of the state’s second most populous jurisdiction delivered perhaps the biggest upset among a series of surprising election results in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, when political newcomer and data center opponentLast year, Wheeler led a majority on the Board of Supervisors that approved a plan to rezone more than 2,000 acres of farmland to accept data centers, which house the computer servers and hardware required to support modern internet use.
Now, northern Virginia is home to the world’s largest concentration of data centers. Tech companies like to place the centers here, in part because the region’s proximity to the nation’s traditional internet backbone allows the servers in those data centers to save nanoseconds that are crucial to support financial transactions, gaming technology and other time-sensitive applications.
“We’re luring these big data centers but we’re not really taxing them appropriately. What benefit are we really getting?” she said.was on her regular morning commute to work, taking a commuter bus from Prince William County to her job in the nation’s capital, contemplating the ramifications of a victory she admitted she did not anticipate.
“People were just expressing their anger and frustration because they’re just wanting someone to listen,” she said.
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