Blindsided by the sale of George Washington University‘s Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, to Amazon Data Services, the Loudoun County government is prepared to fight to keep data centers off that property.
“Data centers have been a godsend for Loudoun County, from a financial perspective,” said Buddy Rizer, the county’s executive director of economic development, in a WTOP interview. “We do think data centers are important, but we don’t think data centers should be everywhere.”
Rizer said his initial reaction to the sale was surprise, “but quickly it became frustration because we have spent the last four or five months trying to get a meeting with GW to address some of the rumors we had heard about them trying to sell the land.”…