1. United States
2. Va.
3. Letter

No tax cuts for Big Tech and we need a Data Center Moratorium in Virginia to protect us from the environmental harms. See my concerns below: 1. Massive tax breaks, sweetheart land deals, and utility subsidies, all funneled to the same tech giants already worth trillions. It’s state backed infrastructure capture dressed up as progress. 2. The U.S. has roughly 5k more data centers than any other country. (Yes, even China.) Nobody seems to know why or is even asking why. That level of centralization has obvious long term political risk. 3. Residents who raise concerns about zoning, water use, noise, or power demand are often dismissed by elected officials aligned with powerful industry interests. Some have even been arrested at council meetings or for social media posts. 4. Data centers increasingly support AI training, mass data processing, and surveillance adjacent systems. It’s distributed digital infrastructure makes large scale monitoring cheap and scalable, worrying privacy advocates who can see the writing on the wall. 5. These facilities are extremely energy-intensive, loud and water-hungry, often placing heavy demand on local grids and cooling systems. They create "heat islands", pollute the air, and the cost is externalized to communities while profits are centralized. Concerns about data centers are NOT a left/right issue. This isn’t about opposing innovation or capitalism, it’s about accountability, surveillance infrastructure, concentrated power, and externalized costs.