Despite growing controversy, including a Goochland County lawsuit, City and state officials have indicated they will move ahead with an exciting, new, local utility program to support area new date center projects.
The DPU program is called ‘Richmond’s Next Step’ and it is already being touted as a ground breaking way to push area technological advancement and development through public/private partnership. ‘Richmond’s Next Step’, if successful, will be seen as a model for utilities around the state, and scale up to become ‘Virginia’s Next Step’. Corporate and government leaders are saying this is absolutely necessary to further the use of artificial intelligence in Virginia and be able to compete on an economic basis both nationally and internationally.
Although finer details are being worked out when the state’s General Assembly reconvenes later this month, these are the four major parts we know so far for ‘Richmond’s Next Step’:…