Rural U.S. county split over multi-billion dollar data center boom

WASHINGTON: Page Snyder has lived in the same house on a farm in northern Virginia for all of her 71 years – but now she wants out. Along with some of her neighbors, Snyder hopes to sell her land to make way for a vast data center campus.

Located an hour from the U.S. capital, the area already has one of the world’s highest densities of data centers – gleaming warehouses accommodating the digital storage, applications and processing that power swathes of the internet.

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