Let me try to respond to the post trying to argue data centers go where there is wealth. I am very familiar with the Loudoun County situation, and can describe it to people who might not be aware. Loudoun County has wealthy areas, and the late actor, Robert Duvall, lived in one of them and led the fight to prevent a data center from being built in the county. But not all the areas of the county are wealthy, and this may hold true more generally for counties that have approved the data centers. The town of Warrenton, nearby in the county, is definitely not brimming with wealth. What happened with the data center in the county was that it promised jobs, and this was attractive to those of lesser income in Warrenton who wanted to increase their incomes. It is also important to note that Warrenton is not on either I-81 (directly, it is nearby) or I-95. So the commuters don't necessarily stop in the town on the way, so you don't get enormous consumption spending. What you do get is blown pollution from the commuting (I-95 near Fredericksburg or Potomac Mills generates a lot of pollution on Friday afternoons, since the traffic is basically stalled), so the data centers would keep this pollution from getting worse, as I have repeatedly argued. The Warrenton Council voted 4-3 to approve the data center in the area - see https://www.fauquier.com/news/warrenton-town-council-approves-amazon-data-center-special-use-permit/article_26dcc3ee-ad17-11ed-8db1-6bb7d802d95e.html. This was definitely in response to the interest in jobs.
In response to the granting of the data center, and environmental protest, the state has moved to restrict development, which the environmental advocates argue does not go far enough - https://mwcllc.com/blog/virginia-data-centers-fast-changing-landscape-what-developers-need-to-know. So it is a back and forth between the wealthy and environmentalists on one side, and the less wealthy who want jobs on the other; the demand of the less wealthy and not the wealthy is responsible for the approval in the Warrenton case and probably many others. The Piedmont Environmental Council's response is an example of the fury of the environmentalists, but as I have also argued, they are not about to make a detailed study of the traffic that would occur if the data centers are not approved - https://www.29news.com/2026/09/10/virginians-are-so-upset-by-this-piedmont-environmental-council-calls-data-center-moratorium/