In Virginia, USA a new state regulation has been approved yesterday to assess new #DataCenter constructions in relation to the effect of the proposed facility on (i) water, (ii) agricultural resources, (iii) parks, (iv) registered historic sites, and (v) forestland site or immediately contiguous land and prohibit them in case that the assessment is not in accordance with *local* authority regulations https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1601
The bill correctly calls a data center "high energy use facility" #HEUF