Culpeper Alliance for Balanced Growth

04/07/2026

03/27/2026

A wave of development in recent years has been reshaping the landscape of Culpeper as data centers rapidly rise in and around the town and county.

02/23/2026

The AI backpedaling has begun: 2028 Democratic contenders who bet big on data centers are suddenly retreating amid a growing voter revolt.

A growing voter revolt signals how the politics of AI are evolving almost as rapidly as the technology.

02/14/2026

‘The [Data Center] Industry Comes In and Kills the Work of Local Citizens’: States and feds aren’t doing much to affect data center growth. Residents here in one Virginia county are trying to push back — but running into some big obstacles.

01/07/2026

Virginia officially reports that it lost $1.6 billion in sales and use tax revenues in FY 2025 to data centers

Virginia Tax Revenue Losses to Data Centers Soar to $1.6 Billion for FY25 - Good Jobs First

09/23/2025

Candidate forum tonight at 6 pm at Germanna! There are 3 BOS seats up for election and the future of our county is at stake.

A FREE educational event for the community. Tuesday, September 23 House of Delegates District 61 District 62 Board of Supervisors Cedar Mountain, Jefferson, Stevensburg Districts Wednesday, September 24 School Board Cedar Mountain, Jefferson, Stevensburg District Town Council Mayor Candidates will b...

11/28/2024

Article re: Nov 20 hearing re: proposed changes to control growth. Have you weighed in with your BOS member?

Nearly 200 people filled the auditorium of Eastern View High School on the rainy evening of Nov. 20 to take part in a special, three-hour public hearing held by the

09/25/2024

Some big data centers in Virginia will have to wait up to three years longer than anticipated to get power from Dominion Energy – a situation that could stretch the planning, evaluation and electricity delivery process to as much as seven years.

09/25/2024

Data center spread in VA decried by Sierra Club:

Dozens of local residents turned out Wednesday to hear a speaker with the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter run through the perceived downsides of unchecked data center development in Mecklenburg County and other areas of Virginia. The gathering at the Estes Community Center in Chase City was hosted by J...

08/16/2024

"Data centers not only fail to create jobs in significant numbers, they are huge drains on local infrastructure—everyone is aware that they use a lot of electricity, but few realize they also need tremendous amounts of water to operate."

Data centers are central to the digital infrastructure powering the modern economy—but they may not be the robust job creation engines some proponents would claim.

08/06/2024

With the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors approval of more than 1.5 million SF of data centers on farmland, "We run the risk of losing what Culpeper is."

Millions of acres of American farmland are being lost to urban development but one state in particular is seeing its countryside destroyed by the internet.

07/30/2024

We need to watch out for the projects that increase the value of the land and thus result in big tax bills for landowners:

The PW Digital Gateway plans from QTS and Compass Datacenters aim to create 23 million square feet of data centers on roughly 2,100 acres along Pageland Lane near Bristow. The corridor is expected to become the largest of its kind in the world, with the Prince William Board of County Supervisors app...