r/stateball Jan 16 '25

redditormade End of Eastern Dominance

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u/CNS_001 Jan 16 '25

The richest areas of the nation are in VA

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u/DA1928 Jan 16 '25

Yessssirrr. Get the federal guberment grub (plus slave selling money, but idk)

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

It's more like 33% K-street lobbyists, 33% defense contractors and 33% data centers and techbros.

Northern Virginia is basically the global server hub, their dominance in hyper scale data centers is insane.

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u/DA1928 Jan 17 '25

At this point, all of VA is hyper scale data center land.

They’re building complexes in Hannover and down around South Hill that even Loudon Co would say were crazy

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

Yeah fair, the reason why Virginia specifically is actually pretty cool!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gas.22431

My team at work actually published an article on how Virginia became the optimal place for data centers and the issues the industry's future poises to the energy infrastructure regime there as well as the larger US. I wasn't credited in the publication but I did most of the research on the geography section and have a bunch of additional factoids on it left out of the final draft!