Known as the Digital Gateway, the land is close to Manassas National Battlefield Park, whose superintendent has expressed concerns about “potential irreparable harm” to the site. Ann Wheeler, chairman of the board of supervisors in Prince William and a strong backer of the zoning change, lost her re-election bid in the Democratic primary last week after a grass-roots campaign to oust her emphasized her support for more data centers. Data centers will increasingly be built farther from some of the traditional locations and will move closer to the clients they serve, according to research by Gartner, an I.T. “They are essentially inhaling massive amounts of energy.”The demand for data centers is so great that as soon as one is on the drawing board, the space is quickly scooped up, even before it goes to market. “Every building that gets built gets leased,” said Ryan Goeller, a commercial real estate broker and principal at KLNB, who specializes in Northern Virginia.

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Persons: Ann Wheeler, Prince William, ” Mr, Coakley, “, ”, Ryan Goeller Organizations: Digital, Democratic, Gartner Locations: KLNB, Northern Virginia