After denying a proposal last month to build a data center just outside of Leesburg that could include a long-duration energy storage facility pilot, county supervisors this week voted to reconsider the application.
The Cochran Tech application requested rezoning land along Cochran Mill Road near Luck Stone Quarry to permit a 450,000-square-foot data center and the energy storage facility, which was initially planned at 11,000 square feet, but is reduced to 600 square feet in the final version of the application.
The storage unit, designed to reduce the data center’s reliance on generators during times when the grid is overloaded or interrupted, would not be battery-based but would include graphene storage units…