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Roanoke College alumnus running for congress calls for universal data center safeguards
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Fusion42 · 14 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Virginia, home to 371 operating data centers and 400+ planned, faces water and power infrastructure strain as Google and other hyperscalers expand. A Congressional candidate calls for federal and state safeguards on water use and environmental contamination, while local governments begin setting their own standards.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure and Data Infrastructure.
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If you're selling power, cooling, or water infrastructure to data centers in Virginia, you now have customers buying under local ordinances that don't yet exist federally—meaning federal rules are coming, and they will standardise your product. Call Roanoke City Council and see what they just approved; that's your spec sheet.
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