Data Centers help create lifetime careers

May 29, 2024 – Cardinal News

Shawn Hergenrather, Cornet Fire Protection

When my brother, Neale, and I began our careers in Northern Virginia’s telecom industry in the 1990s, the life of the American worker was undergoing a profound shift.

Before that time, a person could expect to get a good job out of high school or college, learn everything they needed to know on the job, have meaningful career pathways without having to switch employers and even stay at a single company until retirement.

A manufacturing success story in Virginia gets even better, thanks to data centers

May 23, 2024 – Cardinal News

Rob Bedard, Airedale by Modine

Modine is expanding its Rockbridge County manufacturing plant due to the growth of data centers.

Old Dominion, new data

February 29, 2024 – Virginia Business

Written by Katherine Gustafson

As available land for data centers in Loudoun County — home to Data Center Alley, the world’s largest concentration of data centers — has become scarcer and more expensive, the industry has expanded into other Northern Virginia localities and beyond.

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Virginia's Data Centers and Economic Development

June 2023 – Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s Econ Focus

Written by John Mullin

The state's fast-growing data center industry continues to build on its early advantages.

Residents should think carefully when asking for fewer data centers

May 13, 2023 – Loudoun Times-Mirror

Written by Editorial Board

We here at the Loudoun Times-Mirror hear a lot of talk about data centers.

We’re sure you do, too.

Over the past few decades, data centers here in Loudoun County have slowly (or perhaps not so slowly) grown to become one of the largest sources of economic gain for the county, and now the so-called Data Center Alley in the Ashburn area is the single largest concentration of data centers on the planet.