Brookfield’s Compass Datacenters announced last month that it was abandoning 800-plus acres of planned data-center campus in Prince William County. It was the lynchpin of a more than 2,100-acre data center campus that was planned.
A debate among Virginia politicians about the size of the tax breaks the data-center industry would receive “cemented executives’ resolve to walk away.”
Compass was a casualty of a broader political shift. A recent Washington Post poll found massive opposition among Virginians to data center expansion. This sentiment found a legislative champion in Richmond…