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This Ashburn, Virginia, neighborhood wants to sell their homes to data centers

All Content from Business Insider·Jordan Pandy·4 months ago
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Mital Gandhi, 47, is a resident of Ashburn, Virginia, whose community has been overtaken by data centers. Stephen Voss for BI Mital Gandhi remembers watching the 2024 NBA Finals on TV at his home in Ashburn, Virginia, when he realized something wasn't right. Instead of hearing the ball bouncing or the intermittent squeaks from shoes on the hardwood, his ears could only focus on a constant hum. That hum, he said, came from one of the four data centers less than 2,000 feet away from his property. "You can see them from my front porch. You can hear them sometimes from my pool," Gandhi, 47, told Business Insider. "It's not appealing to me to hear them or to be surrounded by them." To say Gandhi's development, The Regency, is surrounded by data centers would be an understatement. The 143-home neighborhood in Loudoun County, Virginia, is in the area's famed " Data Center Alley ," which hosts about 200 data centers — the highest concentration in the world.…

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