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Governor Abigail Spanberger just unveiled the Data Center Accountability Framework — a bold new plan to give communities more power, transparency, and protection as massive data centers spring up across Virginia. Designed to shield residents from soaring energy costs and enforce stricter environmental standards, the framework tackles five key areas: transparency, environmental safeguards, affordable energy, clean energy growth, and worker equity. With an immediate executive order in place, she’s already banning secret deals and requiring local approval for any data center using over 25 megawatts of power. State subsidies are being cut, fast-track permits revoked, and data centers must invest in c...
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It's September 18th. You're listening to Roanoke News Today, AI-powered local news. I'm Corey with the story. Governor Abigail Spanberger just dropped a new plan, the Data Center Accountability Framework. The big idea here is to make sure communities get more say and more transparency when data
centers pop up. It's all about protecting folks from higher energy bills and setting some serious environmental rules for these massive tech hubs. This framework is built on five key pillars, boosting transparency, beefing up environmental
protections, bringing down energy costs, growing the clean energy sector, and making sure Virginia workers get a better deal. She signed an executive order to kick off some of these changes right away, and also launched a new AI task force to get ahead of the curve on.
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