17/07/2025
Check out the ongoing conversation about data centers near Lake Anna. 💻
Just one day after Mineral District Supervisor and Chairman Duane Adams held a town hall to discuss the potential third Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Louisa County, one resident took to Facebook to create a space to discuss data center development in the county. The public group was created on June 27 and has already garnered 532 members.
Savannah Walker, a Louisa County native, created the group. She is a senior director for regional data center engineering at a data center company that serves over 72 data center locations in North America.
During Adams’ town hall, Walker stated her background as someone who builds, designs, and engineers data centers, and asked a question about what the third data center campus tier would be. According to hpe.com, data center tiers are a system used to rank how complex its infrastructure is, as well as how many redundancies and backup components for cooling IT equipment it has. Walker said this was going to make a difference on how much the data center would rely on community resources like water from the Northeast Creek Reservoir.
Adams responded the project is still getting site plans approvals, but could not provide information on the tier level of the project. He added that while power is a concern for data center companies, it’s not necessarily a Louisa County issue, as power is provided by local electric providers and then regulated by the State Corporation Commission.
While Walker did want to ask additional questions, Adams made it clear at the beginning of the town that he wanted to give everyone a chance to ask one question in an effort to make sure every resident had the opportunity to speak.
Reflecting on the town hall and questions asked by other residents, Walker took issue with claims made by Adams that data center campuses will cater toward Louisa residents for positions.
“[Adams] tried to say that data centers are going to give jobs [to Louisa residents]; that’s not the way colocation, or data centers work,” Walker said. “They don’t require that many people to run the facility.”
Click below to learn more about wastewater, fuel storage, noise, and infrastructure related to the proposed AWS data center, community efforts to stay informed, and a circulating petition with over 700 signatures:
https://www.thecentralvirginian.com/news/louisa-county-technology-discussions/article_679e2ea5-ec8e-44c5-953a-ecb41f21ec54.html
