Amid budget battle, legislators pass the buck on concrete data center reforms. Again.

By: Ivy Main

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: June 16, 2026

Words: 1,020

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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Oh yay, another commission.

Leaders in the House of Delegates are continuing to tweak their version of a state budget, but they aren’t backing down from their fight with the Senate over data centers. What they are backing down from is their former insistence that data centers use clean energy. Instead, they propose to punt this and every other data center issue over to a commission.

Is that supposed to resolve the budget …

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