Virginia data centers face hurdle over public notice

RICHMOND, Va. — An appeals court in Virginia ruled that zoning ordinances permitting agricultural land to be used for data centers were void because they weren’t properly advertised, in part because the county hadn’t yet made the full text of the ordinances available to the public at the time the advertising appeared. The county’s board of supervisors may enforce the advertising requirements even if they knew about and actively participated in a public hearing about the matter.