New governor could see new versions of old bills seeking to regulate the data center industry

New governor could see new versions of old bills seeking to regulate the data center industry

Last year, a group of mostly Democratic Virginia legislators introduced a set of bills to deal with data center proliferation. Then-Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivered a State of the Commonwealth address, in which the Republican said that data center control should be a local, not state, concern. Only seven of about two dozen bills on the subject survived 2025’s General Assembly session. Youngkin then vetoed a measure that would have required develope…