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Residents urge pause as board refers data-center performance standards back to review
Summary
Public speakers raised environmental, noise, water and residential-impact concerns about proposed data centers; the board sent the county's Data Center Performance Standards back to the Planning Commission and established further review and an ad hoc committee to refine protections.
Residents from multiple districts urged the Stafford County Board of Supervisors on June 3 to slow or halt approvals for large data centers while the county revises its performance standards and studies environmental and residential impacts.
Public commenters cited a range of concerns including proximity of data centers to homes, potential noise — including low-frequency noise — impacts on wells and water supplies, increased strain on the electric grid, and long construction phases. Several speakers quoted the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) report and asked the county to place data centers in industrial zones rather than adjacent to residential neighborhoods.
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