LOUDOUN — When Julia Mason moved into her new home in Loudoun Meadows six years ago, the community was less than 10 years old, and the view across Quail Ridge Lake was a farm, with woods and a red-and-white barn.
A data center is seen from a street in the Loudoun Meadows housing community in Loudoun County.
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A data center borders the Loudoun Meadows housing community and is seen from across the lake in this Aug. 5 image.
Josh Levi of the Data Center Coalition said the average household now has 21 connected devices.
A data center campus was under construction near Fredericksburg in this September photo. Instead of doing so in King George County, Amazon is building data center campuses in four other counties in the greater Fredericksburg region — with centers already operating in Spotsylvania and Louisa counties.
Data centers line Loudoun County Parkway on August 5 in Loudoun County.
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Ted Lewis lives near the True North data center in Loudoun County and leads the Goose Creek Association, outside of Leesburg. It is concerned about the effects of data center development along the scenic creek.
Ben Keethler, president of the Loudoun Meadows Homeowners Association, talks about living near data centers.
Ben Keethler is a resident at Loudoun Meadows, a housing community with two new data centers nearby.
A look back - inside a data center
The inside of the Richmond Mega Data Center campus in Eastern Henrico County, as seen in May 2017.
According to a state study, data centers such as the QTS Virginia Data Center in Sandston (pictured), support 74,000 jobs and generate $5.5 billion in labor income and $9.1 billion in GDP in Virginia.
A model of the QTS Virginia data center was on display in the lobby of the 1.5-mi million-square-foot storage center for computer data in Sandston on May 3, 2017.
QTS Virginia Data Center site director Kevin Snead used one of the security checks at the 1.5-million-square-foot storage center for computer data in Sandston on May 3, 2017. It read his fingerprint to identify him.
A room in the second building at QTS’ Sandston facility is seen in May 2017. There are currently approximately 40 data centers across Henrico County.
