Homeowners appreciate not having power lines all around them, and it turns out that the owners of datacenters feel the same way. Only datacenters need a lot of energy, so in Northern Virginia, DuPont Fabros is kind of stuck.
A new power line might decrease the likelihood of blackouts and even (eventually) reduce costs. So far, so good - you might imagine that DuPont would support Dominion Virginia Power’s plan to run one.
But Kendra Marr writes, “[S]oaring towers and high-voltage lines could devalue its property,” and a cofounder of DuPont told her that the company has been unable to either support or oppose the idea. The Northern Virginia Technology Council also failed to pick a side.If such situations are duplicated elsewhere, this could conceivably lead to problems for ever-expanding companies like
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