Here is another speech on data centers by Hailey Grimes at the 9/16 Spotsylvania County Planning Commission meeting. She provides her perspective on farmers in the area and mentions “eminent domain”. We cannot find any specific plans by Spotsylvania County on where the power lines and power substations will be located to support the data centers. The county seems very quiet on this issue.
Currently, there is no major infrastructure to support the immense power requirements of the data centers. We anticipate that Spotsylvania County will use eminent domain to take the property of residents in order to build out the power lines and the power substations. Using eminent domain to benefit private businesses tramples on the property rights of citizens. It is one thing if eminent domain is used to build a road. It is another thing if eminent domain is used for the benefit of a multi-billion-dollar businesses. That is the very definition of crony capitalism (which is very different from capitalism which the Spotsy Wire 100 percent supports). We have reached out to the Supervisors to ask this question and are waiting for responses.















