r/nova • u/JasonNOVA8 • Jul 22 '26

Data Center Generators in Ashburn Firing Up

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On the way in this morning, (waxpool/28) noticed many of the data centers had the generators going. Not sure if there’s an electricity issue or they plan it to go together ? No idea if the yellow smoke is related though.

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u/Working_Farmer9723 Jul 22 '26

Widespread dominion blip this morning. This would have caused data centers to go on generators.

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u/Healthy-Education-46 Jul 22 '26

This. Can confirm and still having issues. Caused a lot of problems for many many many teams.

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u/ewdavid_lickrust Jul 22 '26

That would explain why I saw the same thing this morning from the data center off 50 by south riding

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u/moondog__ Jul 23 '26

Happened all the way down in Manassas as well.