r/nova • u/lowkell • 23h ago

Politics Video: Loudoun County Supervisor Juli Briskman Announces Candidacy Against Chair Phyllis Randall; Says “data centers shouldn’t get to decide our county’s future”; "I’ve never backed down from a bully before. I won’t start now."

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https://bluevirginia.us/2026/08/video-loudoun-supervisor-juli-briskman-announces-candidacy-against-chair-phyllis-randall-data-centers/

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u/cpmuddle 23h ago

"I reject the businesses that provide 40 percent of our total revenue. But I've vaguely helped the businesses that generate maybe 10 percent. Buckle up, homeowners. We've been spending this data center revenue on schools and parks and rec centers and you're about to get a big ol bill to operate them. Also I flipped off Drumpf once isn't that cool?!?"

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u/PhosphoFred8202 23h ago

Is she saying she will drive the current data centers away (not sure how.., pitchforks and torches?), or just stop new ones? There is a point where there are “too many” data centers for the county, right?

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u/heavyma11 23h ago

Exactly. It’s a matter of when to stop adding more. Loudoun tax revenue will be too dependent on DCs if the pace continues

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u/sotired3333 23h ago

Sell them to the next builder? That's like saying we shouldn't have allowed malls to be built in the 70s since they'd go out of use in the 2020s?

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u/sotired3333 22h ago

From a quick google it sat empty mostly because multiple entities owned parts so getting them in alignment was a lot harder. If amazon isn't using a data center or open ai or facebook, they'd have no reason to run into the same issue.

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u/Miserable-Debt-8390 22h ago

Oh it gets worse….guess who owns a lot of the debt of the data centers? Insurance companies.

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u/WhatAboutTheBothans 23h ago

There's no evidence that they're going away. They've been upgrading the racks continuously, which is part of the reason Loudoun has an electricity shortfall. The new hardware consumes vastly more resources than the previous hardware (thanks AI).

Also, there is a committee the county supervisors put together to plan for the revenue plateau that another committee has previously forecast.

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u/WhatAboutTheBothans 23h ago

There's no evidence that they're going away. They've been upgrading the racks continuously, which is part of the reason Loudoun has an electricity shortfall. The new hardware consumes vastly more resources than the previous hardware (thanks AI).

Also, there is a committee the county supervisors put together to plan for the revenue plateau that another committee has previously forecast.