How would you feel if you found out the electric company was coming by your house, seizing a bunch of your property and building a massive power pole right in your backyard? That’s exactly what appears to be happening to a Virginia woman who has learned Dominion Energy might use eminent domain to snatch up part of her yard and put a power pole in it that’s taller than the Statue of Liberty.
Dominion also wants to run that high voltage line right by two schools.
In Ashburn’s “data center alley,” the utility work to keep the electricity flowing is cutting through backyards and school yards…