1srelluc
Diamond Member
Well now, looks like the rich liberals of Loudoun Co. Virginia are getting a taste of what their folly has wrought!
LOL....It's like they never even considered that data centers come with consequences.
royalexaminer.com
As the demand to pump power to energy-thirsty data centers concentrated in Northern Virginia swells, a debate about where to put towering high-powered transmission lines in populated areas has put one Loudoun County community on the defensive.
Dominion Energy is working to bring a reliability loop of power to the so-called Data Center Alley in Ashburn. Two routes that will connect substations to over 100 data centers in the area are already approved and in the process of being built. To complete the last portion of the loop, the utility, state regulators, local leaders and community members must determine which route is most palatable for the more developed areas of town.
As the demand to pump power to energy-thirsty data centers concentrated in Northern Virginia swells, a debate about where to put towering high-powered transmission lines in populated areas has put one Loudoun County community on the defensive.
Dominion Energy is working to bring a reliability loop of power to the so-called Data Center Alley in Ashburn. Two routes that will connect substations to over 100 data centers in the area are already approved and in the process of being built. To complete the last portion of the loop, the utility, state regulators, local leaders and community members must determine which route is most palatable for the more developed areas of town.
Photo of Dominion Energy’s proposed transmission lines for the Golden to Mars substations in Loudoun County.
A group of neighbors in Loudoun Valley Estates in Ashburn have banded together to try and prevent the 165 foot, 500kv high-voltage transmission lines from being built in their backyards as part of one of the routes proposed by Dominion. One homeowner said she was blindsided by the new route being added to the proposal this year, which moved the transmission line from the Rock Ridge High School grounds up the nearby hill, cutting her backyard in half.
“I mean, we’ve got so many memories in our house, the same as our neighbors. And this thing just shattered our life. We haven’t put everything on hold because we just don’t know what’s going to happen,” homeowner Vicky Hu said.
Hu has lived in the Loudoun Valley Estates neighborhood for 20 years. She raised her daughter there and enjoys the forested look of the area – which is what drew her from Fairfax County. She also sold many of the homes in the community.
Her yard is projected to have one of the massive towers placed in it under proposed route 3a. There is the possibility that eminent domain laws, with approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, could remove her from her home if the State Corporation Commission (SCC) approves the 3a route and the lines come too close to her house.
Even if she is able to stay, she and her husband fear it could mean major property devaluation, with the tower looming over the house and trees cleared away from the cliffside.
“The house is going to be worthless, if they put a power line there. Because we want to live next to a power line?” Hu said, “And the whole reason we bought the house in Ashburn is because of the view, the nature, the wildlife.”
Good to see them have to put up with what folks out here in the Hinterlands have put up with for years just to get power to their NOtVA homes.
This is what homes in that area go for:
LOL....It's like they never even considered that data centers come with consequences.
Loudoun County Neighbors Fight Proposed Dominion Transmission Lines for Data Center Alley
As the demand to pump power to energy-thirsty data centers concentrated in Northern Virginia swells, a debate about where to put towering high-powered transmission lines in populated areas has put […]
royalexaminer.com
Dominion Energy is working to bring a reliability loop of power to the so-called Data Center Alley in Ashburn. Two routes that will connect substations to over 100 data centers in the area are already approved and in the process of being built. To complete the last portion of the loop, the utility, state regulators, local leaders and community members must determine which route is most palatable for the more developed areas of town.
As the demand to pump power to energy-thirsty data centers concentrated in Northern Virginia swells, a debate about where to put towering high-powered transmission lines in populated areas has put one Loudoun County community on the defensive.
Dominion Energy is working to bring a reliability loop of power to the so-called Data Center Alley in Ashburn. Two routes that will connect substations to over 100 data centers in the area are already approved and in the process of being built. To complete the last portion of the loop, the utility, state regulators, local leaders and community members must determine which route is most palatable for the more developed areas of town.
Photo of Dominion Energy’s proposed transmission lines for the Golden to Mars substations in Loudoun County.
A group of neighbors in Loudoun Valley Estates in Ashburn have banded together to try and prevent the 165 foot, 500kv high-voltage transmission lines from being built in their backyards as part of one of the routes proposed by Dominion. One homeowner said she was blindsided by the new route being added to the proposal this year, which moved the transmission line from the Rock Ridge High School grounds up the nearby hill, cutting her backyard in half.
“I mean, we’ve got so many memories in our house, the same as our neighbors. And this thing just shattered our life. We haven’t put everything on hold because we just don’t know what’s going to happen,” homeowner Vicky Hu said.
Hu has lived in the Loudoun Valley Estates neighborhood for 20 years. She raised her daughter there and enjoys the forested look of the area – which is what drew her from Fairfax County. She also sold many of the homes in the community.
Her yard is projected to have one of the massive towers placed in it under proposed route 3a. There is the possibility that eminent domain laws, with approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, could remove her from her home if the State Corporation Commission (SCC) approves the 3a route and the lines come too close to her house.
Even if she is able to stay, she and her husband fear it could mean major property devaluation, with the tower looming over the house and trees cleared away from the cliffside.
“The house is going to be worthless, if they put a power line there. Because we want to live next to a power line?” Hu said, “And the whole reason we bought the house in Ashburn is because of the view, the nature, the wildlife.”
Good to see them have to put up with what folks out here in the Hinterlands have put up with for years just to get power to their NOtVA homes.
This is what homes in that area go for:
