Tag Archive for: WV Legislature

Republicans Want to Disown the Data Center Monster They Created

There's non-partisan politics and there's partisan politics. How do you decide whether legislation results from one or the other? Troy Miller levels an argument at Republicans, who want to claim that data centers should be a non-partisan issue, because nobody here wants them. But there's the reality that it is exactly Republican legislators who are roughly 100% responsible for why data centers are a looming reality.

Data Centers: Talk of the Panhandle

The topic of data centers is contentious for communities actually or potentially impacted by them. It's so contentious that our Republican dominated legislature has taken away the rights of these communities to regulate them and even to have them at all. John Doyle makes the case that these community rights legislated away for now have to be reconsidered and restored in future legislative sessions.

West Virginia Legislature Denies Water Quantity Amendment to Data Center Rule

Lucia Valentine reports on how the legislature failed to provide a rule for prospective data centers to determine the potential impact on water availability of their facilities. Will there be any negative impact on the water availability for farmers and residential users?