Data centers in Frederick County, Virginia

Upcoming: Nov 3 special elections for three Board of Supervisors seats. NVDaily reports that all four independent challengers have run on anti-data center platforms and that the three incumbents said they would not state positions until they voted on the pending applications (NVDaily, Oct 26).

Upcoming: Nov 3 special elections for three Board of Supervisors seats. NVDaily reports that all four independent challengers have run on anti-data center platforms and that the three incumbents said they would not state positions until they voted on the pending applications (NVDaily, Oct 26).

Board unanimously denied the conditional use permit for the 72-acre Winchester Gateway data center campus in Kernstown; the Virginia Technology Park applicant, Equus Capital Partners, had withdrawn its application the week before (Winchester Star via NVDaily).

Virginia Technology Park application withdrawn from the Oct 28 Board agenda; the Planning Director said the application 'ceases to exist'. The applicant's Oct 23 letter said the main reason was a lack of time to revise the application after the hearing date was moved up (NVDaily).

Board voted 6-1 (Supervisor Oates opposed) to remove data centers as a permitted or conditional use in the TM, M1, M2 and B3 zoning districts, which the Winchester Gazette described as making Frederick the first of Virginia's 133 localities to bar the use outright. The Board also unanimously grandfathered two pending applications (Virginia Technology Park and Winchester Gateway) if heard by Oct 28.