True Data Center Power Demands And Hookup Backlog Revealed: Report

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA – The true number of data centers waiting for power from Dominion Energy, the actual power they require and the time they anticipate waiting for it were revealed in a recent Virginia State Corporation Commission hearing, and the results are shocking, a new report finds.

According to the Prince William Times, Dominion Energy, which provides power to Virginia and the Carolinas, has approved 111 new data center projects that are to be connected to power by the end of 2031. More than 200 others are waiting. The total power load of approved data center projects alone is more than 70 gigawatts, a truly enormous amount of power; enough, according to Carbon Collective, to power more than 61 million homes.

The outlet reports that Dominion Energy is only able to approve projects at a rate of about 10 per year, while its list of applications grows at that rate per month. This is creating decade-long backlogs and raising questions as to what is really driving these applications.

In the meantime, political opposition to data centers and the substations and power lines that support them is only growing.

Read more from the Prince William Times here.