Data Center Nation: How All Of America Became Big Tech's Boomtown

Prince William County, Virginia, looked very different in 2016.

With the Manassas Civil War battlefield at its center, the county long served as a dividing line between the heavily developed D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia and the rural communities in the central part of the state. 

A decade ago, the county’s western half was predominantly forests and farms, with its eastern half filled with bedroom communities.

Now, an explosion of data center development has changed this landscape dramatically. Vast campuses of windowless concrete buildings surrounded by generators have bubbled out along major highways and power transmission corridors, replacing homes, businesses and green space...

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