Virginia

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.

August 11, 2026

Opposition groups from Missouri to New Mexico to Virginia are shifting from harm arguments to procedural suits over notice, zoning, and meeting rules, a track Data Center Watch tied to at least 75 projects stalled in the first three months of 2024; Blackstone's QTS and Compass abandoned a Prince William County, Virginia conversion after a state court faulted public notice.

August 10, 2026

Virginia this week ordered data center operators to absorb more infrastructure buildout costs after facilities consumed up to 25% of the state's electrical capacity.

July 24, 2026

Virginia's Prince William Digital Gateway, once projected at nearly $25 billion in investment and $400 million in annual tax revenue, is effectively dead after QTS withdrew its remaining Supreme Court petitions in July and Compass exited in April.

July 12, 2026

Virginia's $0.011-per-kilowatt-hour consumption tax took effect July 1.

July 8, 2026

Ken King told a Texas Farm Bureau panel that ERCOT and the PUC are examining over 400 GW of proposed generation, and that if even 20% builds out, Texas surpasses Virginia as the nation's data center hub.

July 7, 2026

The cautionary contrast sits out of state: Utah's Stratos collapsed from 40,000 acres after bypassing county zoning, and Virginia's Q

July 5, 2026

In Virginia, a Blackstone subsidiary walked from the 2,100-acre Prince William Digital Gateway over a zoning notice defect.

July 2, 2026

Virginia already codified the direction of travel.

July 1, 2026

Virginia shows where captive-hub politics leads. Its General Assembly passed a 1.1 cent/kWh levy on datacenter electric use, projected at $600 million annually, with Gov. Spanberger calling it "only the beginning."

June 24, 2026

Virginia approved a $0.011/kWh consumption tax on all data center power, behind-the-meter generation included, projected at $600 million annually, with a 500 MW facility owing roughly $48 million a year.

June 4, 2026

Risk: Orrenius flagged "more challenges for ERCOT" ahead, and Virginia retail prices are already edging up.

June 2, 2026

Contrast that with Illinois, where the POWER Act missed its May 31 deadline and Governor Pritzker is moving to suspend $983 million in tax credits, and Virginia, where a Prince William County appeals court halted the Digital Gateway project on public-notice grounds.

May 25, 2026

Texas, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania already require formal load-interconnection review for large electricity users.

May 17, 2026

A Union of Concerned Scientists analysis found utilities across seven PJM states approved $4.356 billion in local transmission projects in 2024 alone to connect datacenters, with over 95% of costs assigned to ratepayers. Virginia led at nearly $2 billion.

May 3, 2026

Carnegie Mellon's Nicholas Muller pegs annual U.S. pollution and health costs from 2,800 facilities at roughly $25 billion, with Texas and Virginia together accounting for 30%.

April 24, 2026

The American Farm Bureau Federation notes Texas ranks second nationally with 546 active or under-construction facilities behind Virginia's 706, with Goldman Sachs projecting a 10.4 GW supply gap persisting into 2028.

April 16, 2026

Virginia's appeals court just invalidated the Digital Gateway rezoning

April 6, 2026

A University of Scranton panel warned that Pennsylvania and West Virginia are the only PJM states currently exporting energy, with Virginia's 35% share of global hyperscale data centers drawing heavily on imports.

April 4, 2026

Virginia leads in siting rules and water disclosure requirements, with its legislature sending Governor Spanberger a "high use energy facility" permitting bill.

March 13, 2026

Virginia hosts 575 data center facilities, more than any other state or nation besides the U.S., and any weakening of its tax framework will redirect capital flows to competitor states, Texas chief among them.

March 10, 2026

From San Marcos, Texas (where a $1.5 billion campus was killed by a 5-2 council vote) to Virginia (where voters elected a governor who campaigned on forcing the sector to pay more) to Ohio (where moratoriums are spreading), the pattern reflects a resource-driven political realignment.

March 9, 2026

States like Virginia, Ohio, and Minnesota already have large-load tariff frameworks.

March 8, 2026

A 6 GW-plus pipeline across Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Nevada, and Pennsylvania positions PowerHouse as a national player.

March 6, 2026

Virginia's already at 25% state share and could hit 41-59%.

March 2, 2026

Virginia's proposed 2,100-acre Digital Gateway complex remains in state appeals court.