Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Environmental Quality
 
Board
Air Pollution Control Board
 
Guidance Document Change: DEQ Guidance Memo APG-578 addresses the use of emergency generators in the case of “sudden and reasonably unforeseeable events” as the result of a planned electric outage.
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11/19/25  8:24 am
Commenter: Julie Kay

Bad enough as it is!
 

It is bad enough that Fredericksburg has approved a Data Center project just yards from residential housing, but the idea of increasing the use of generators is ludicrous.  The noise and the pollution these centers generate are issues that are being ignored and increasing them will just prove what environmentalists and others who care about the quality of air we breathe have been saying - NO DATA CENTERS near residential areas.

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