Bristow, Virginia – Community activists will hold a rally and press conference outside of Amberleigh Station in Bristow, Saturday at 1 p.m., to protest Dutch data center developer Yondr’s plans to build multiple data center buildings behind the small HOA community.
The data center will house eleven 300,000 square-foot, 80-foot-high data centers within 100 feet of their homes, according to plans Amberleigh Station HOA President Steve Pleickhardt received from the Prince William County Planning Office via the Freedom of Information Act.
The demonstration will focus on the "horrendous" Prince William County site plan that will subject the 170 homes of Amberleigh Station, Silver Leaf Estates, and nearby schools and businesses to years of high-decibel construction noise.
"The noise pollution will continue from ventilation fans and rooftop air conditioning units once the data centers become operational," said one organizer.
In addition, the community is protesting the Prince William County Board of County Supervisor’s upcoming vote, on Sept. 13, to create the “Devlin Technology Park” only a few hundred yards east of Amberleigh on Linton Hall Road.
Together these would surround Amberleigh Station and Silver Leaf Estates on three sides with data centers up to 120 feet tall. (The Prince William BOCS will hold a public hearing for that application, for which members of the public can sign up to speak. )
"Prince William County government continues to be overly accommodating to data center development at the peril of its citizens," said a spokesperson. "The County’s insufficient noise mitigation measures at Amazon’s Tanner Way data centers highlight the incompatibility of data centers with adjacent residential communities and is a bellwether of what is in store for residents of Bristow and Gainesville (fighting the Prince William Digital Gateway)."
"Runaway data center development is enveloping western Prince William County as citizens feel powerless to alter the determined intentions of insensitive elected officials."
"Local government needs to halt all data center development adjacent to residential communities until it can demonstrate an understanding of, and remediation for, the profound detrimental effects of what it has already approved."
Organizations represented will be:
Members of neighboring communities who oppose the data center development are welcome to join the protest. Protesters will meet Saturday, Sept. 10, at 1 p.m. on Linton Hall Road at the intersection of Bourne Place.
Arrive a bit early. There is parking within the Amberleigh Station neighborhood and at Bristow Run Elementary across the street.
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