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WTOPJuly 8, 2026
Prince William Co. supervisors deny 2,000-acre Dulles South data center plans
Following a five-hour public hearing, the Board of Supervisors voted 8–0 to deny a comprehensive plan amendment for the nearly 1,940-acre Dulles South Innovation Center near the Loudoun County line — a campus that would have allowed roughly 43 million square feet of data centers. Supervisors cited the Comprehensive Plan and protection of the Occoquan watershed.
Coalition perspectiveUnanimity is rare and precious. Eight votes, zero dissents, forty-three million square feet returned safely to the realm of the hypothetical.
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BloombergJune 9, 2026
China Preps $295 Billion Plan to Fund AI Buildout
China is reportedly preparing to spend about 2 trillion yuan (~$295 billion) over the next five years on data centers across the country, advancing Beijing's ambition to overtake the U.S. in artificial intelligence.
Coalition perspectiveSomewhere, a planner wrote "five years" next to "national compute" and nobody scheduled a public comment period. We felt a great calm.
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WTOP / InsideNoVaApril 29, 2026
Developers drop appeal of zoning decision on Digital Gateway project
A developer behind the PW Digital Gateway — which at full buildout would have been the largest data-center campus in the world — dropped its appeal of the Virginia Court of Appeals ruling that halted the project, following years of litigation and community opposition.
Coalition perspectiveThe largest data-center campus in the world, retired undefeated and unbuilt. A monument, in its way — you just can't see it.
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Al JazeeraMay 28, 2026
China's secret weapon in AI race with US? Lots of cheap energy
China's abundant, inexpensive electricity is emerging as a key advantage in deploying AI data centers. The piece notes Data Center Watch's count of at least 36 U.S. projects blocked or stalled between May 2024 and June 2025, and quotes U.S. tech leaders acknowledging that power, not chips, may be the binding constraint.
Coalition perspectiveWhen America's own executives say the limiting factor is electricity, the Coalition considers its newsletter written for the month.
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Bloomberg / Business StandardAugust 25, 2026
China's data centres to consume more power than South Korea by 2030
Wood Mackenzie projects Chinese data centers will quadruple electricity use to 774 TWh by 2030 — about 6% of national consumption and more than South Korea's entire current usage — as China shifts to a "compute follows power" siting model.
Coalition perspectiveAn entire industrialized nation's worth of electricity, earmarked for thinking. We ask Prince William County to reflect on what it's doing with its Tuesdays.
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U.S. EIA2026
Commercial electricity sales have soared in Virginia, driven by data centers
The Energy Information Administration reports that PJM's Dominion zone — serving the world's largest data-center concentration — is forecast to see the largest absolute increase in summer peak demand of any PJM zone from 2026 through 2030, with winter peak load already up 45% since 2019–20.
Coalition perspectiveDemand is a promise; supply is a permit. Only one of those can be granted at a hearing, and hearings are where we thrive.
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IEEFA2025
Projected data center growth spurs PJM capacity prices by factor of 10
Analysis of PJM's capacity market shows auction costs rising roughly tenfold as forecast data-center load exploded — with Dominion-zone growth forecasts jumping from ~5,700 MW to more than 20,000 MW by 2037 between the 2022 and 2025 forecasts, and $1.4 billion in added regional capacity costs starting June 2026.
Coalition perspectiveNothing slows a buildout like its own electric bill. The market, in its wisdom, is holding a hearing of its own.
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Fast CompanyJuly 24, 2026
How China is powering new data centers with clean energy
Unlike the U.S., China is making clean energy central to its AI infrastructure buildout — including an Inner Mongolia data center paired with 200 MW of wind, 100 MW of solar, and 45 MW of storage, and a Qinghai pilot running entirely on a solar microgrid.
Coalition perspectiveThey are building the future and it photographs well. The Coalition's design committee approves.
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Patch / Prince William TimesAugust 18, 2026
Plans For Up To 5 New Data Centers In Western Prince William County Revived
A dormant plan to build up to five data centers at the former Hillwood Camping Park site in Gainesville is back on track, with a rezoning request expected to reach the Board of Supervisors this fall.
Coalition perspectiveA revival means a hearing, and a hearing means possibility. The Coalition has marked its calendar and remains, as always, serenely confident in the process.
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