I don’t know as much as I should about data centers, but I’m learning, as we all should. This is the sort of thing for which I’d advocate for you/us to not accept this as inevitable. See this from Louisa for example on July 24, 2025 – Amazon Web Services withdraws request to build data center campus north of reservoir.
There is a lot to learn.
Targeting overlay districts at Pantops, the airport/North Fork, Emerson/Rivanna Futures, and the I-64/29 interchange, massive data centers could be built less than a football field away from homes in both neighborhoods and the countryside. Data centers of 500K ft sq (almost 11.5 acres) could be built by right and larger by special permit if Albemarle County’s draft ordinance on data centers is adopted…