There are well over a hundred data centers now in Northern Virginia, all concentrated on three adjacent roads in a two mile box.
Five new (and more being added) power substations are needed to power them.
One Chinese EMP device or a power grid cyber attack will take them all out, along with most of America’s banking, online commerce, hospital and medical records, government data files, water supplies, pipelines, and communications assets.
But more are added every week because local county governments want the tsunami of taxes coming their way.
I don't live in Virginia, but I stream WMAL to listen to Chris Plante and Dan Bongino (I like Vince Coglianese a lot too). Consequently, I hear a lot of local news from that area during their news breaks - I cannot believe how much electricity and water these data centers require. It was a big eye-opener for me.