SnackWell's Promised You Could Eat As Many As You Want With No Problems -- PWC Says We Can Build as Many Data Centers As They Want With No Problems

 

 

Targeted Industries and SnackWell's

 

If you remember the 1990’s you may remember SnackWell's. According to an April 23, 2019 article on www.tastecooking.com,  “SnackWell’s runaway success was a particularly ’90s moment….. the defining moment for the very American idea of permissible indulgence. Here was a cookie that you could eat as much of as you wanted. Because fat and cholesterol were bad, and everything else was…fine.”

 

Similarly, Prince William County has conferred targeted industry status for data center approvals. This may have made sense when it was first introduced, just like SnackWell's made sense. But now, the targeted industry concept is completely out of balance.

 

Who is being targeted when the Board of County Supervisors zones 25 million square feet of data center campuses surrounding homes and schools in the Gainesville/Haymarket/Bristow area during a 12-month period?

 

Particularly as it was a time when residents were overwhelmed taking care of trying to navigate life during a pandemic. These data center approvals were so lightning fast, almost no one in the community knew what was taking place. 

 

What really happened in the Gainesville area is that the data center developers targeted the residents, and unfortunately the Board of County Supervisors did not stand up to protect the community.

 

With so much rapid success under their belts, data center developers have become even more brazen. The two biggest campuses – Devlin Technology Park (270 acres) and PW Digital Gateway (over 2100 acres) are up for a vote in early Fall 2022.

 

There are red flags everywhere:

  • watershed studies that should be done prior to approval of these massive projects are not being done
  • an irresponsible data center tax rate - PWC needs to build 2.5 times as many data centers as Loudoun County just to collect the same revenue. That means 2.5 times the environmental footprint! Why would a Board choose to intentionally risk the Rural Crescent when it could more readily just get the same tax revenue by creating parity with neighboring Loudoun County?
  • an insatiable demand for electrical power that will be extremely harsh on the environment
  • impact on history, African – American Heritage and Tourism (due to the. Prince William Digital Gateway CPA which would allow 90 data centers on 2100 acres of rural land next to a National Park.
  • disruptive 24/7 noise impact on thousands of residents in nearby homes

 

So, SnackWells are no longer being made. We now know that low fat and high sugar diets contributed to metabolic imbalance, obesity and diabetes.  

 

Because of the frenzied data center approvals of 2021 and 2022, Prince William County may very well become the textbook example of targeted industry, data center over-indulgence leading to community chaos and environmental disaster. 

Ally Stoeger OD

Chair – Health & Safety Committee

HOA Roundtable of PWC

 

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