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Board weighs approach to rapid data-center buildout and possible future reuses
Summary
Spotsylvania planning staff told supervisors the county has millions of square feet of data-center projects approved or pending and asked whether the comp plan should include a guideline or cap and identify candidate reuses (vertical farming, battery storage) should demand shift; the board asked staff to continue monitoring and to emphasize resource constraints and rezoning review.
Spotsylvania County planning staff reported a substantial pipeline of data-center projects and asked the Board of Supervisors whether the comprehensive plan should include a recommended cap or guidance on total acreage or square footage devoted to data centers and whether the county should identify alternative "best fit" uses for those buildings if demand changes.
Staff said approved and pending data-center square footage totaled in the multiple millions, and that projects clustered in specific corridors close to transmission infrastructure and inside or near the primary…
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