Virginia has the biggest data center market in the world. Can it also decarbonize its grid?

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By Sarah Vogelsong, Inside Climate NewsJun 9, 2024, 9:00 am205 pts
While short-lived, the denial came as a surprise. This March, Loudoun County, a suburb of Washington, D.C. in northern Virginia that is home to the greatest concentration of data centers in the world, made an unexpected move: It rejected a proposal to let a company build a bigger data center than existing…

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