Board of Supervisors Business Meeting
The Board of Supervisors Business Meeting discussed data centers 40 times at its meeting on July 7, 2026 in Board of Supervisors Business Meeting · Virginia. Each moment is linked to the meeting record below.
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…ou? Good. We are ready when you are. all right. Good evening MADAM Chair and supervisors. My name is abdul jaffari. I'm the manager for the data center [Inaudible] Location. Today I'm joined this evening with daniel galindo, director of department of planning and zoning as well as mike and callow and frederico lopez fr…
…the findings of this white paper also inform future land- use policies and regulations related to the substations part of phase two of the data center project. At this stage staff is not prepared to address questions related to the proposed land-use policies and regulations. Those matters would be brought forward to t…
…ss the pros and cons of each. We'll also go through locations citing considerations for substations. We'll look at substations that service data centers and what are typical screening methods that are used to mitigate visual impacts. With that I'll turn it over to federico to start on the topic of what is a substation.…
…n you continue the voltage from high-voltage to low- voltage, to feed the user, the customer. Normally for distribution points in plans and data centers. [Inaudible] Classification is switching station. A switching station is related to utilities when utilities have transmission lines that they have to manage the power…
…stations, we said there was 95 existing substations within the county. There is a lot of substations obviously serving load centers such as data centers so these figures on screen are showing kind of the general arrangement of how electrical infrastructure seems to use data centers so there's switching substation which…
…s such as data centers so these figures on screen are showing kind of the general arrangement of how electrical infrastructure seems to use data centers so there's switching substation which is shown on the left. High-voltage transmission lines come in and then redirect power to the distribution substation where they s…
…ribution substation where they step down voltage a lot of times from 230 kv to 34.5 kv voltage and then distribute it to the load center or data centers. There's examples where there's substations cited on a data center campus, as shown on the left, to serve that campus, and there is other instances where the substatio…
…230 kv to 34.5 kv voltage and then distribute it to the load center or data centers. There's examples where there's substations cited on a data center campus, as shown on the left, to serve that campus, and there is other instances where the substations are cited off the campus where they consider a data center and po…
…shown on the left, to serve that campus, and there is other instances where the substations are cited off the campus where they consider a data center and potentially other customers as well. One of the questions that came up when we were working with staff was what is the typical size of a substation in loudoun count…
…loudoun county? And we kind of did a quick review. The county posts data online of all the substations that exist and so we looked at five data center complexes or -- and we kind of analyzed what those sizes are so the average campus size of those campuses came to be around 75 acres and the average substation size for…
…size for the switching substation was roughly 1.6 acres and the distribution substation being around 3.2 acres so that overall a lot of the data center campus made up roughly 6% of the area of the site and that's talking about air insulated substations and as shown in that figure on the right shows the power lines comi…
…e on the right shows the power lines coming in and then feeding the substations on the right. They are typically located on the edge of the data center campus so as it relates to digital impacts, a lot of times they are on the edge of a property or adjacent to a roadway or something else that we'll get into screening a…
…e and procedures for that facility and a lot of these facilities have redundancy in their system so that they could continue to feed to the data center if there's an outage of a certain piece of equipment. With that I'll turn over to federico to go for some of the major components of a substation. thank you. Thank you,…
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…ty substationsto data center stanrds. I glad to see this white paper and l t data the white pap. How ma substions are located site with the data centers? Would you look athat at all witthe 95 that you're talking about? Supervisor trony, we n't have a specic analysis for you but will finitely get that number, with rougy…
…Supervisor trony, we n't have a specic analysis for you but will finitely get that number, with rougy spaking a lot of substations being indata center campus as wl. Havg said that, alshave sutations being propos outsi of data center rcel or a cams. Thas an excellent queion, [ Inaudible] Get that answered r you. I just…
…t number, with rougy spaking a lot of substations being indata center campus as wl. Havg said that, alshave sutations being propos outsi of data center rcel or a cams. Thas an excellent queion, [ Inaudible] Get that answered r you. I just like to require substatio be on-site where theyare serving the data centerso I wo…
…cams. Thas an excellent queion, [ Inaudible] Get that answered r you. I just like to require substatio be on-site where theyare serving the data centerso I would be interested inunderstanding how any are off-site. I uld like to e that data. What setback doyou recommend om schools, homesand businesses? I did propose 500…
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…ewht be on the da center camp, some of thewould no. I understand hy our reliabily substation would not but herwise, why wouldn it be on the data center camps? That a very big one. there is load it in some of tse questions soi'm sory we don't haveall the answers becausethere's different inputs n some f these quesons. Th…
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