Data centers kept lining up to plug into Virginia’s grid in the first three months of the year, telling Dominion Energy they wanted enough electricity to power 625,000 homes.
That brings the total of future data center demand for electricity to 51,000 megawatts, Dominion said in materials for a presentation to Wall Street analysts. That’s enough for 12.75 million homes, or roughly four times the total of Virginia households.
The latest requests came as the General Assembly rejected a bill that would have, for the first time, given the State Corporation Commission power to authorize large users’ connections, a measure prompted by concern that data center demand for electricity already was exceeding what Dominion could produce.
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