From Farms to Data Centers: The Natural Gas Industry’s Newest Sales Pitch Comes to Virginia’s Pittsylvania County

From Farms to Data Centers: The Natural Gas Industry’s Newest Sales Pitch Comes to Virginia’s Pittsylvania County

“In all my days here, this is the biggest black eye that Pittsylvania County has experienced,” says Amanda Sink Wydner, leader of the local opposition to plans for a massive new power plant and data center complex in Chatham, a small town in southern Virginia.  On April 15, the county government will vote on whether to rezone hundreds acres of farmland to heavy industrial use, which would allow Balico LLC, a natural gas power developer, to proce…