What's The Real Story Behind the PW Digital Gateway -- and How Much Money is Really Involved?


 


Why would any politician support a proposal to make Prince William County the largest data center hub in the world when it has enormous adverse impacts on the citizens of the county?

Why would any politician support approving data centers that blast dangerous levels of sound next to schools where teachers cannot teach and kids cannot learn -- and next to communities that destroy the quality of life of the families that live there?

Why would any politician support approving data centers in a location where they will pollute the Occoquan Watershed that supplies nearly 2 million citizens in eastern PWC, Fairfax, and Alexandria?

Why would any politician support approving data centers in a location where they will destroy wildlife habitats and the invaluable rural landscape in PWC?

Why would any politician support approving data centers in a location where 4 lane divided industrial roads have to be built that will CREATE the Outer Beltway (aka the Bi-County Parkway) that will make roads from I-95 in eastern PWC to the Loudoun county line horribly unsafe?

Why would any politician support approving data centers in a location that will destroy the viewsheds and the historically significant sites (including freed slaves, slaves, and soldiers who fought in the Manassas battles or who lived in that location at that time) at the Manassas National Battlefield Park?

 Why would any politician support approving data centers without doing all of the studies needed to protect our county (the BOCS did approve a water study, but refused to stop the approval of data center before the water study is completed)?

Why would any politician support approving data centers when the Data Center Overlay District previously approved is not filled to capacity now?

Why would any politician support approving new data centers when they could just get the same "revenue" by increasing the data center tax rate to match Loudoun County's?

Why does the definition of political corruption always come down to money?

And who is giving the money to the politicians who are rolling out the red carpet for data center operators to pave over PWC, and when will they transfer the money to those politicians or their campaigns?

Why is the BOCS hell-bent to put the approval of these data centers on the FAST-TRACK before the elections next year?

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