A big hurdle standing in the way of a controversial data center development in southern Frederick County was swept away Thursday.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed a bill exempting data centers from existing regulations on the fleet of massive diesel generators needed for backup power.
Moore said he aims to “supercharge” the data center industry’s expansion into Maryland.
The scale of what’s coming is stunning to skeptics and critics in Frederick County in light of the environmental controversies now plaguing data centers in Northern Virginia.
Quantum Loophole has begun development of a 2100 former Aluminum smelting site near Adamstown in Frederick County.
Rich Paul-Hus, co-founder of Quantum Loophole said the entry of the industry to Maryland would be transformational to the state and county by injecting up to $100 billion in new economic activity, and the tax revenue that comes with it, in the coming years.
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