County with 37 data centers tells schools to 'conserve electricity' as rates jump 25% (404media.co)
Henrico County's manager emailed thousands of staff that power for all county and school buildings would rise 25% on July 1, about $5 million more a year, and urged them to conserve. The county hosts 37 data centers with plans for 17 more, some on Civil War battlefields.
The thread refused the easy villain. A Berkeley Lab analysis, cited in the thread, pins most of Virginia's rate rise on the state's 2020 clean-energy mandate, not the data centers. Another noted the email went to all government buildings; only 'schools' hit the headline.
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