For the better part of three years, furor has steadily mounted over a proposed 230-kilovolt transmission line and associated electrical infrastructure that Dominion Energy wants to build in Prince William County, primarily to power an Amazon data center expansion but also, it says, to improve reliability and electrical service in the area.
Yet in a filing last week, opponents say lawyers for Amazon have acknowledged the data center expansion may not happen, undercutting the rationale for the entire controversial project.
At present, the lines and towers more than 100 feet tall are scheduled to run from Haymarket and Gainesville through the Carver Road area, a historic black neighborhood that includes properties acquired after an 1866 law allowed newly freed slaves to own land.
