Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger — who promised during her campaign to prioritize affordable energy if she won — on Sunday doubled down on her views of the “energy crisis” that her state will face without new policies to hold the biggest users accountable.
“There’s some bad energy policies in some of our neighboring states that have driven up prices, particularly in southwest Virginia,” Spanberger said Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.” “We have to be clear-eyed about the fact that we will have an energy crisis headed into the future.”
Virginia has the world’s largest concentration of data centers, which are facilities designed to house the technical infrastructure that allow artificial intelligence to operate, and demand for them has only continued to grow as the AI boom proliferates. But these data centers use massive amounts of energy.
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