Data Center Facts
We have compiled a set of documented numbers from Virginia regulators, and public records filed in 2025 and early 2026. These are the facts every Frederick County resident deserves to know before the Board of Supervisors votes on data center proposals.
The Facts Every
Resident Deserves to Know
Nine figures. Open a group to see each number and to learn what it means for Frederick County.
What This Means
For Frederick County
These are the documented impacts that could reach your well and your electric bill if we don't speak up now.
Our Valley's Water
Is at Risk
Frederick County sits in the Shenandoah Valley, a region already prone to drought. A single large data center can consume more water than the entire county uses in a day, with no legal guarantee our farms and wells come first.
You'll Pay for
Their Power
Frederick County is served by REC, a member-owned co-op you're part owner of. Data centers force massive grid upgrades that hit every member's bill. REC's own filings warn that proposed data centers would demand more power than its entire existing customer base combined.
24 Hours a Day,
7 Days a Week. Forever.
Data centers never sleep. Cooling systems the size of houses run continuously on rooftops four stories above your fields. When it's hot, which is when you're trying to sleep with your windows open, they run loudest. There is no off switch.
Frederick County Sits on
Hollow Ground
Most of Frederick County is underlain by karst, a landscape of dissolved limestone riddled with caves, sinkholes, and underground rivers. It's what makes the Shenandoah Valley beautiful. It's also what makes industrial-scale groundwater consumption here uniquely catastrophic.
What Our Neighbors
Are Living With
Virginia communities that said yes to data centers are now sounding the alarm. Their experience is our warning.
200+ data centers. 43 million square feet. Drinking water use jumped 250% in four years. High-voltage transmission lines are being carved through farmland and wetlands. Supervisors now deny applications, but for most neighborhoods, it is already too late.
Data centers built adjacent to the Great Oaks subdivision generated years of noise complaints and national news coverage. A Loudoun realtor noted in February 2025: "No one has ever asked me to find them a home near a data center." We'd be the experiment.
The Board of Supervisors voted 5–0 against a zoning change that would have opened the door to data centers, calling the facilities "monstrosities." Residents cited threats to the local water supply and community character. Frederick County has that same choice right now.
Now That You Know
The facts above are only useful if the people who vote on these projects hear them from you.