Residents and candidates press for limits on data-center expansion

Virginia residents seek a pause, enforceable noise and diesel-emissions limits, and protection from shifting infrastructure costs to ratepayers. Spanberger’s executive order added noise rules and local negotiating tools but did not stop construction; a proposed three-year moratorium has bipartisan support. Pennsylvania activists are pressing Philadelphia for a moratorium before a city task force reports this summer, while a New Jersey map documents more than 80 existing centers and further planned or active projects.