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Senate panel backs study to assess data center growth, energy and water impacts after Loudoun experience cited
Summary
Senators heard sponsors and conservation groups urge a state study on the scale and consequences of hyperscale data center growth; county supervisors and industry warned of the need for local flexibility and speedy permitting. No vote recorded.
The Education, Energy and Environment Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 116, a bill that would fund a state study into energy, water and economic impacts of large commercial data centers and produce recommendations for planning and permitting.
Sponsor Senator Karen Lewis Young said Maryland has seen rapid interest from hyperscale data center projects and that the state can learn from Virginia and other states’ experiences. Supervisor…
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