You Can't Drink Data

Tim Dooley explains how this system of governance makes public decisions without much citizen input and how data center proliferation is just one symptom. Dooley addresses a community town hall on Sept. 11, 2026, in Fincastle, Va.

We are one year out since Botetourt County announced it had sold 312 acres to Google for a data center campus, the Western Virginia Water Authority’s Chief Engineer and Strategist Will Bulloss published an op-ed defending the Authority’s own role in the data center deal.

I. Flooding the Zone

II. Wet Works

III. Virginia is For Cove-ers

IV. Water, Sources, and Water Sources

V. Rain-Need Day Fund

VI. Who Washes the Washmen?

Learn more about responsible data center development and those citizens fighting for their communities at www.swvadcta.org.

Botetourt County Board of Supervisors Amsterdam District representative Tim Snyder hosts his monthly town hall-style meeting with constituents at VFW Lord Botetourt Post 1841 in Daleville, Va. Guest speaker and Director of Economic Development for Botetourt County Kyle Rosner described what his department does to promote businesses in the county.