Understanding What Data Center Expansion Means for Our Region

December 3, 2024 | 10:00AM - 11:30AM | RSVP Here

Up until recent years, data centers were seen as positive economic development. Today, they have grown into a complex web of interconnected impacts at the local, state, and regional level. These impacts include, but are not limited to, the challenge of meeting our clean energy goals; protecting drinking water sources; land conversion and threats to habitat protection, tourism, and historic preservation; air quality degradation; and increased costs for electric infrastructure. While Virginia is home to the world's largest data center market, this is fast becoming a region-wide issue with neighboring states laying the groundwork to attract more centers to their localities. 

Join us for a virtual funder briefing with climate, water, land use, and environmental enforcement advocates working at the frontlines of this issue to better understand the impacts and complexity of this issue as it rapidly expands across our region. 

Moderator: Prince Charitable Trust

Speakers: 

• Friends of the Rappahannock

• Maryland League of Conservation Voters

• Piedmont Environmental Council

• Southern Environmental Law Center