Data Center Alley: Computing Power of 10 Million Servers at Plug and Play Price

1. Clip 1 · 0:15 Leesburg Economic Development and Applicant Presentation Developer Representative In support transcribed from the official recording

   Tax Abatements Water Power & Grid Zoning

   Developer representatives and economic development officials pitch capital investment, jobs, tax agreements, and utility infrastructure before Loudoun County Board of Supervisors.

   "of Dulles Airport in Virginia we're about 30 minutes west of Washington DC with the largest concentration of data centers and it works in the world data centers are where the internet lives everything we do on the internet or on our corporate networks is stored on servers in these data centers you know people that's what's the cloud the cloud is just other people's computers and those other people's computers are"

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2. Clip 2 · 0:44 Loudoun County Board of Supervisors Member Elected Official In support transcribed from the official recording

   Tax Abatements Water Power & Grid Zoning

   Loudoun County Board of Supervisors members review zoning, tax abatement terms, water allocation, and grid capacity during the approval proceedings.

   "important initiative for enterprises around the world it makes a lot of sense to put your data scientists close to your data you want to be able to easily and rapidly manipulate large data sets we saw recently in the black hole simulation and experimentation that was done the way they did their data science and the way they did their analysis was by shipping via fedex large numbers of flash drives and hard drives containing"

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3. Clip 3 · 1:09 Resident public comment Resident Public Comment transcribed from the official recording

   Public commenters and local stakeholders raise questions regarding municipal water draw, tax revenue exemptions, power transmission, and long term community impacts.

   "their data and that's fine if you've got a long time if you're not in a hurry to do your analysis if you've got years that's great but if you need to move the speed of business you need to be able to put your data on the wire and the only way to put your data on the wire is to go somewhere where there's enough capacity and to do it very very quickly to do it in seconds and minutes not in"

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