Just 35% of Virginia voters now say they would be comfortable with a new data center going up in their community, down from 69% in 2023, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll published Wednesday.
This comes just one day after Prince William County's Board of Supervisors voted to drop its appeals defending the Prince William Digital Gateway, ending years of legal effort to revive a 2,100-acre, 37-building campus that, at full buildout, would have been one of the largest data center developments in the country, if not the world.
