Loudoun County, VA

August 29, 2026

Loudoun County still banks as much as 31% of local revenue and a $119.7M stabilization fund; blue-collar wage premiums on Dallas jobs run 10 to 64% in Andreessen Horowitz work.

August 28, 2026

Kansas coverage is treating Loudoun County, Virginia's retrofit of 253 facilities as the cautionary baseline: two-year ordinance work on sound, power, water, emissions, setback, and appearance, Tier IV backup mandates above EPA Tier II, and closed-loop-only water rules after the county already absorbed roughly 10% of potable supply.

August 26, 2026

Virginia still shows the revenue split: Loudoun funds 38% of its general budget from datacenter equipment tax while the state forgoes about $1.6 billion a year in sales-tax exemptions and recovers only 48 cents on the dollar, and deal-term silence leaves thinner counties negotiating blind with 140-plus projects still planned nationwide.

April 27, 2026

Loudoun County, by contrast, funds nearly half its tax base from data centers serving 440,000 residents.

March 16, 2026

Anti-datacenter candidates won local elections in Loudoun County, Virginia.

March 11, 2026

Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam says he receives more constituent complaints about that one site than any other in Loudoun County.

February 16, 2026

Virginia's Loudoun County saw datacenter water consumption surge 63 percent from 2019 to 2023, hitting roughly 900 million gallons.