Why Should Delaware Care?A massive data center project near Delaware City could impact the energy bills of homeowners if the grid is not prepared to handle it. The developer of the project has undertaken a PR campaign to influence the debate and now enlisted the help of influential labor unions.
As New Castle County and state energy regulators prepare to begin discussing potential restraints on the burgeoning data center industry in coming weeks, the developer behind a controversial Delaware City project lined up a significant ally: the region’s labor unions.
Last week, Starwood Digital Ventures, which wants to build a 6-million-square-foot data center dubbed Project Washington, signed a project labor agreement that promises to use 20 local unions, most of which are based in Delaware, to build the campus…