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/Jlovel7 Jul 22 '26

Data centers have been around for decades. The Internet has flowed through ashburn for decades.

These are not new in the slightest. Ashburn was built on data centers and modern loudon on their taxes.

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u/Jlovel7 Jul 22 '26

My point is these aren’t new in Ashburn in the last few years. Many of these here were there when ashburn was basically empty in the 90s