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An aerial view of the Botetourt Center at Greenfield. Photo courtesy Botetourt County
Feb 26, 2026

Google’s Botetourt data center campus may use 8M gallons of water daily

Unredacted documents reveal Google’s planned Botetourt data center may require 2M–8M gallons of water daily for operations.

U-Va. board member text messages reviewed by The Washington Post were obtained through Virginia's Freedom of Information Act by Richmond-based author Jeff Thomas. MUST CREDIT: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post
Jan 16, 2026

‘This is war’: In texts, U.Va. board members plotted with Youngkin, decried DEI

As Republican leaders moved to root out what they have criticized as liberal ideology at the University of Virginia, some conservative appointees to its board texted privately about ending “chemical and surgical mutilation” for transgender youth at its hospitals and undoing “regimes of racial classification” in its classrooms, according to nearly 1,000 pages of text […]

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