Post by @trackdatacenters1

A Louisa County, Virginia homeowner, Austin Newsome, says his life has been upended since Amazon began building a data center across from his property roughly a year ago, with tap water turning brown and dust and mud coating his home. Newsome, who runs a boat servicing business from his property, said customers have stopped bringing boats to his business until construction is complete. He said he received no communication from the county or Amazon during the zoning and development process, and that representatives of Clark Construction and Amazon only called to inform him just before work began. Newsome has since filed suit against Amazon, and a federal judge recently allowed his private nuisance claim to move forward. The dispute comes as Louisa County faces separate scrutiny over an Amazon Web Services permit application to discharge up to 280,000 gallons a day of treated cooling water into Sedges Creek, which feeds into Lake Anna, with neither Virginia nor the federal government currently requiring testing of that discharge water for PFAS. #DataCenters #Virginia #LouisaCounty