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  10:40 pm
Commenter: Karen Fortuna

Are you out of your minds!!!
 

The trillion dollar industry know as data centers would love to run the cheap, cancer-causing, air polluting generators instead of paying for electricity or finding clean-air solutions to their power needs.  Unless the legislators are all data center investors, why would they even entertain such a destructive notion?  It's bad enough that all the earth's finite water supply is being used for these ridiculous monstrosities, but now we as the neighborhoods have to hear the hum and roar of generators and look at the eyesores instead of nature. NO! NO! NO!

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