A pair of federal agencies could soon delay the construction of a controversial data center in Haymarket, and the new power line Dominion Energy is building to help support the project.
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, an agency that advises the White House and Congress on the management of the nation’s historic sites, wrote a May 17 letter pressing the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a more expansive review of the project. The agency is currently studying the environmental impacts of the new facility, which is being constructed on a lot across from the Novant Health UVA Haymarket Medical Center near Interstate 66.
The project — which is backed by VAData, a subsidiary of Amazon — involves three separate buildings. But the Army engineers were originally only set to study issues relating to the construction of two of those facilities, which are about the size of warehouses.
