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Apr 15, 2025

Developer withdraws unpopular Pittsylvania data centers proposal

After months of Pittsylvania County residents and business owners speaking against an $8.85 billion data center campus and natural gas power plant proposed for land along Chalk Level Road, the developer announced Monday that it has withdrawn its rezoning application “The company is now evaluating alternative development options for the property in addition to the […]

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Mar 19, 2025

Loudoun County supervisors shake up data center regulations

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors approved major changes on Tuesday night to how the county regulates data centers, eliminating them as a by-right use. The board voted 7-2 to alter the county’s comprehensive plan and zoning ordinance, with supervisors Kristen Umstattd and Caleb Kershner making the dissenting votes. The comprehensive plan amendment makes data […]

Data Centers
Mar 18, 2025

Huge data center campus planned for Charles City County

Kansas-based development company Diode Ventures is planning a massive data center campus in Charles City County, about 20 miles outside of Richmond, that is estimated to create 50 to 100 full-time jobs. The company has submitted an application to the county’s planning commission and board of supervisors to rezone five properties totaling about 515 acres […]

The 2019 Something in the Water festival was “by far” the biggest event ever staged at Virginia Beach, says John Zirkle, president of the city’s hotel association. Photo courtesy city of Virginia Beach
Jan 22, 2025

Va. Beach gives Something in the Water 5-day deadline over contract breach

After receiving a brief reprieve, the clock is ticking for organizers for Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water music festival. Organizers were given five days to make significant progress in meeting Virginia Beach’s requirements for a lineup of performers and a start to ticket sales, city officials decided Tuesday. If organizers do not meet the […]

Richmond Mayor Danny Avula hosts a news conference Jan. 9, 2025, to deliver updates on the city's water outage.
Jan 9, 2025

Richmond starts water testing, but city remains under boil water advisory

On Thursday, Richmond Mayor Danny Avula said that water levels have risen across the city to the point that authorities have started testing samples for contamination and most buildings in the city have at least some running water, four days after the city’s water treatment plant failed following a winter storm. A Jan. 6 power […]

Jan 9, 2025

Retired Naval Station Norfolk commander is new Suffolk econ dev chief

Retired Navy Capt. Janet H. Days, who retired last year as commanding officer of Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval station, will be taking on a new tour of duty in February as director of Suffolk’s economic development department, the city announced Wednesday. She’ll start her new job Feb. 7, according to the announcement. […]

Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Jan. 8, 2025, discusses a winter storm that led to massive power outages, as well as a water outage affecting the City of Richmond and neighboring counties.
Jan 8, 2025

Richmond water crisis shuts down many restaurants, businesses

Jan. 9 update: Richmond starts water testing, but city remains under boil water advisory “Dry January” became all too literal in Richmond, where most city residents and businesses were struggling with a water outage that started Monday afternoon and was still leaving much of a city with a population of more than 225,000 people without […]

Pharrell Williams performs on the second night of the 2023 Something in the Water festival. Photo by Heather Cromartie, courtesy Something in the Water
Jan 7, 2025

Something in the Water gets extension from Va. Beach

Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water festival got a bit of a break Tuesday from Virginia Beach City Council members, who agreed to give the Virginia Beach-born music and fashion maven more time to fulfill an overdue part of the festival’s contract with the city. City Council voted 8-2 Tuesday to indefinitely defer an earlier […]

Oct 30, 2024

Powhatan approves $2.7B data center campus

Powhatan County has approved an estimated $2.7 billion data center campus on 119.9 acres partly bordering Chesterfield County. The county’s board of supervisors voted 3-2 during its Oct. 28 meeting for a rezoning and a conditional use permit allowing the proposed development to move forward. The developer, Newport Beach, California–based Province Group, estimates that its […]

Oct 25, 2024

Trump Town owner calls assault, indecent exposure charges ‘fake news’

Donald “Whitey” Taylor, owner of Trump Town, a Boones Mill store dedicated to merchandise celebrating the 45th president, and a candidate for mayor in that same small town, was arrested Tuesday on charges of indecent exposure and assaulting store employees.  Taylor, 74, sent a text to Virginia Business, describing the criminal charges against him as […]

Feb 6, 2024

Va. Beach makes economic development head permanent

Charles E. “Chuck” Rigney Sr. has worked in economic development all over Hampton Roads; in Norfolk, Portsmouth and Hampton. Last February, he joined Virginia Beach’s economic development team as a business development administrator and since June 2023, he has been the department’s interim director. Now he’ll keep the job permanently. The city announced his promotion [...]

Dec 31, 2023

Data mining

Elena Schlossberg has spent the past three-and-a-half years fighting against what some say is soon to become the world’s largest data center complex. The Haymarket resident estimates she’s participated in at least 100 Zoom calls, town halls and Prince William County meetings to protest the project, while wearing a series of T-shirts voicing her opposition […]

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