Board of County Supervisors Meeting - Work Session - Jun 10, 2025
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Prince William County Board of Supervisors
3h 41m
6 speakers
8 agenda items
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What opening formalities and agenda introductions occur at the start of the meeting?
All right. Welcome, everyone. Today is Tuesday, June 10. We are going to begin with a moment of silence.
Thank you. All rise, if you are able, for the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands,
One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, everyone. We are going to go right into agenda item number three, and that's public comment time. I'm going to call folks up in groups of five. When you are called, please state your name clearly for the record as well as where you generally reside. You do not have to put on your full address unless you want me to show up. And I hope you have good food. So I'm going to start with Mr. Rob Pixley, Kathy Kulik, Bill Wright, Dale Brown, and Kevin Coyle.
ready
we're ready
i have an overhead
all right maybe we're not ready we'll give you the okay
So this is an image of the Great Oak neighborhood, and the previous iteration of this had 13 data centers.
Bring the microphone a little closer.
This is an image of the Great Oak neighborhood with the surrounding data centers and substations. I commented previously, the previous version of this had 13 data centers, and that seemed kind of excessive. We've now gone to 14. I didn't think you could find more space for more data centers. The presentation that's going to be made that says we can't do anything about the noise because it's just too tough seems like a cop-out. When we were told, Jefferson, that you failed us last time, I don't see how we're going to go forward. It doesn't seem like, there's over $100 million in new revenue this year from data centers, and yet we're gonna let them do what they want. That says who's buying this. I don't see how we can compete with that when our representatives are taking donations from the very same people to the tune of six figures and claiming it doesn't have any effect.
Anyone who sees that will laugh at that assertion, especially given the history of this. And it is disappointing. And who butters the bread? I think we're getting a picture, and it's very disappointing. We live with this day in, day out. We don't even have the full effect yet. There's only a few of these that are operational. 14 data centers within a half a mile. I'm sorry. That's all I
got. Next speaker, please.
Good afternoon. Katherine Kulik, Vice Chair, HOA Roundtable,
member of the Data Center Ordinance Advisory Group. Data center noise is not just a Great Oak or Amazon problem, despite what the industry has piled into your offices to lament. Noise is a problem from Stack's facility on Hornbaker Road, next to low-income apartment complexes. It's emanating loudly from a core-scale facility at Gainesville Crossing. It's been heard and felt four miles away during a test of the NTT data center at the Route 29 and 66 interchange, and from load tests at the Nova Mango Farm Google Campus inundating the homes of Bristow area residents. And when all the data centers under construction and sitting idle waiting for power in the Brentsville, Gainesville, and Coles districts actually get it, 24-7 industrial noise will be everyone's problem.
Great Oak is simply the best documented with consistent and credible noise readings over a three-year period. Yet item 6C on your agenda, the noise ordinance updates demoralizing conclusion is data center noise is embedded in traffic noise and not sufficiently distinguishable to isolate its contribution. What? That's interesting.
How do public comments about data‑center noise and the Great Oak neighborhood unfold?
Great Oak residents have had no trouble distinguishing low frequency data center noise from the traffic noise they've lived with for decades. Traffic noise doesn't shake our walls, rattle our windows, cause our pets to go off their food, or frighten our children. The board directive that led to the DCOAG three years ago and a million dollars committed to the consultant assistance was on the verge of proposing a cutting edge noise ordinance. Yet staff leadership determined only a few days ago that any hope of a new ordinance is essentially doomed.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What opening formalities and agenda introductions occur at the start of the meeting?
0:08–5:17
2
How do public comments about data‑center noise and the Great Oak neighborhood unfold?
5:17–23:08
3
What discussion takes place about canceling the work session and scheduling committee meetings?
23:08–1:14:20
4
How is the county’s 2025‑2028 strategic plan and its KPIs presented and reviewed?
1:14:20–2:00:12
5
Why was the noise‑testing schedule delayed and what were the initial results?
2:00:12–2:01:51
6
How are octave‑band measurements and the new impulse, intermittent, and continuous scales being defined for the ordinance?
2:01:51–2:11:28
7
Why is it difficult to separate data‑center noise from traffic or other sources for enforcement?
2:11:28–2:45:28
8
What changes are being proposed for exemptions, penalty classes, and the implementation timeline of the noise ordinance?
2:45:28–3:41:27
Speakers
6 identified
Deshundra Jefferson 75 min
Andrea O. Bailey 16 min
Tom Gordy 13 min
Yesli Vega 10 min
Victor S. Angry 7 min
Neil Steinberg 2 min
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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