Dominion Power claims that Virginians’ power usage keeps climbing, so they need to build new power plants that we’ll all pay for with rate hikes. Forced to release internal records, it turns out that the only increase is coming from building data centers.

Why should Virginians subsidize Amazon, whose budget is 7x Virginia’s? virginiamercury.com/2024/11/26

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@waldoj Exactly. For some reason, data centers, for years, have chosen to locate themselves in VA and MD. This seems odd.

If I were going to build a data center I'd look carefully at places like Montana and North Dakota.

I don't understand the decision-making here.

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