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renordgren

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8. Glen Younkin was our last governor...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2026, 05:28 PM

20 hrs ago

I have a sneaking suspicion he quietly ushered in all of this “development” under emergency measures and abbreviated review. Abigail Spanberger took office in January and has already signed into law stricter environmental regs and additional oversight of proposed datacenters like what they’re trying to shoehorn here into Botetourt County.

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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity' [View all] highplainsdem 21 hrs ago OP

Consequences. Assume the local community thought data centers were a good idea... erronis 21 hrs ago #1

Their county officials sound as innane and stupid as ours here in the AZ borderlands Attilatheblond 21 hrs ago #2

I do not understand why delisen 20 hrs ago #3

This unregulated shit needs to be banned yesterday. This is beyond insane. Karasu 20 hrs ago #4

"Also, we need everyone to stop bathing and drinking so much water." tanyev 20 hrs ago #5

Dude- mwmisses4289 20 hrs ago #6

Shut down the effing data centers!' C Moon 20 hrs ago #7

Glen Younkin was our last governor... renordgren 20 hrs ago #8

Everyone must serve the needs of the tech billionaires dalton99a 19 hrs ago #9

These data centers will eventually destroy the communities and make them uninhabitable and sustainable in the next 5 kimbutgar 18 hrs ago #10

Same thing we say about SpaceX RussBLib 18 hrs ago #12

Data centers are trying to move into our rural area and their biggest investors are our local power company ToxMarz 18 hrs ago #11

I am 78 years old, I retired after 40 years in a steel mill. Our plant consumed over $1 million doc03 17 hrs ago #13

Great job, Richmond! Youngkin installed these parasites and now we have to live with them. Martin68 17 hrs ago #14

So fitting that Richmond was the former capitol of the Confederacy. SunSeeker 12 hrs ago #17

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404 media is paywalled out the wazoo. Has anyone actually read this? usonian 15 hrs ago #15

This was always going to happen. Aussie105 14 hrs ago #16

The problem is the price structure Old Crank 8 hrs ago #19

Ya know... purr-rat beauty 5 hrs ago #20

They of course want to bring them to Kansas. MAGA types are yelling and screaming Bengus81 4 hrs ago #21