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Opinion: Prince William Supervisors are like kids at the candy counter

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The steady decay of our county is staggering.  It is not happening gradually, but by one gaping cavity after another.

The imminent approval of Devlin Technology Park, a site formerly planned for housing that morphed into yet another power-sucking eyesore, will bring the total capacity of data centers operating or planned in Prince William County to nearly 50 million square feet.

That doubles the current capacity of neighboring Loudoun county, and exceeds the 48 million a recent study projected to be the maximum demand for the next twenty years.

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