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Data Center Alley Explores a Moratorium
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Fusion42 · 25 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Loudoun County supervisors voted 6-1 to explore a moratorium on data center development in Ashburn's Data Center Alley, directing staff to prepare options by September 15 despite legal concerns. The move reflects resident pressure over noise and emissions from backup generators, threatening the world's largest concentration of digital infrastructure.
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If you're building data centres or power infrastructure in Northern Virginia, your growth runway just shrank. Loudoun County may freeze approvals by September, and three other Virginia counties have already done it—the regulatory door is closing faster than capacity is filling.
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