One day after announcing Amazon reached a deal with Loudoun County to withdraw its proposal to build data centers on The George Washington University campus in Ashburn, Virginia, and with the county poised to consider pausing new data center applications for one year, the tech giant says it has made recent changes to facilitate trust, cooperation and community buy-in for future data center development in Northern Virginia.
“Just this week we marked our 20th anniversary of operating data center infrastructure here in Virginia, as part of our Amazon Web Services footprint,” said Shannon Kellogg, vice president of public policy at Amazon. The company’s second headquarters — HQ2 — is located in Arlington.
Yet, this week, Loudoun County leaders applauded Amazon for where the company decided not to build four new data centers.
Loudoun County has long been considered “the data capital center of the world.” Recently, with community…
