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Virginia regulators weigh expanded use of data centers’ polluting generators

The state’s Department of Environmental Quality would expand permissible uses during emergencies to include “planned outages” by grid operators, presumably for power line upgrades

The construction of a data center in Loudoun County, Virginia. (Photo by Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News)

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