High-voltage transmission lines cut through a property in May 2021 an area proposed for datacentre development in Prince William County, Virginia. — Handout photo by Prince William Digital Gateway/Reuters
WASHINGTON: Page Snyder has lived in the same house on a farm in northern Virginia for all of her 71 years – but now she wants out. Along with some of her neighbors, Snyder hopes to sell her land to make way for a vast data center campus.
Located an hour from the US capital, the area already has one of the world’s highest densities of data centers – gleaming warehouses accommodating the digital storage, applications and processing that power swathes of the internet.
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