GLOSSARY
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JLARC = Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (Virginia's nonpartisan legislative watchdog)
DCC = Data Center Coalition (industry trade group)
PEC = Piedmont Environmental Council (Virginia environmental advocacy group)
PJM = PJM Interconnection (regional grid operator serving 67M customers from Chicago to New Jersey)
SCC = State Corporation Commission (Virginia's utility regulator)
GS-5 = General Service rate class for 25MW+ utility customers
SOQ = Standards of Quality (Virginia's school funding formula)
ACFR = Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (Virginia's official financial statements)
MAE-East = Major interconnection point for internet traffic in Ashburn, Virginia
VPAP = Virginia Public Access Project (tracks campaign finance data)
GJF = Good Jobs First (national nonprofit tracking corporate tax subsidies)
IRP = Integrated Resource Plan (utility's long-term infrastructure plan)
ROW = Right-of-way (land corridor for transmission lines)
MW = Megawatt (1 million watts)
kV = Kilovolt (1,000 volts)
MW-day = Megawatt-day (unit for capacity market pricing in PJM)


SOURCES
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Primary (Government):
- JLARC Rpt598, "Data Centers in Virginia," December 2024 — Table 2-2 (48 cent return, p. 41), Chapter 1 (employment), Chapter 4 (energy, pp. 65-66, $33/month), Chapter 5 (water, p. 80, "currently sustainable"), Chapter 7 (tax exemption), Summary pp. i-xii
- JLARC Rpt518-1, "Data Center and Manufacturing Incentives," 2019 — found exemption returned 72 cents per dollar
- Virginia Department of Taxation — FY2024 tax expenditure: $1.02 billion
- VA Code 58.1-609.3(18) — data center sales tax exemption statute (law.lis.virginia.gov)
- PJM Interconnection — Base Residual Auction results: $28.92/MW-day (2024/2025 delivery), $329.17/MW-day (2026/2027 delivery)
- Virginia Court of Appeals — March 31, 2026 unanimous ruling on Prince William Digital Gateway
- Virginia LIS (lis.virginia.gov) — HB1601 (vetoed transparency bill), SB 553 (water reporting, passed)
- NEA, 2024-2025 Virginia teacher salary average: $68,292

Advocacy/Research:
- Good Jobs First, April 2026 — $1.94B FY2025 projection, $267.4M education share, county-level estimates
- Piedmont Environmental Council (pecva.org) — total bill projections, GS-5 rate class analysis, Valley Link coverage
- IEEFA, July 30, 2025 — PJM capacity price analysis
- Business Insider, February 2025 — DCC PAC contributions ($490K raised, $165,500 to 34 lawmakers, $50K to Don Scott, $250K from Stack Infrastructure), Amazon $25K to Youngkin's Spirit of Virginia PAC (January 4, 2025), 27 reform bills filed

News:
- Cardinal News, March 12, 2026 — Valley Link transmission line details: 115 miles, 765-kV, $1 billion, 135-160 ft towers, 9 counties, eminent domain, Louisa County unanimous vote
- VPM, March 27, 2026 — Valley Link SCC filing expected September 2026
- WJLA/7News, April 2026 — QTS last-minute appeal in Digital Gateway case (Compass dropped, QTS still fighting)
- Data Center Dynamics, April 2026 — Compass pulls out of PW Digital Gateway, QTS continues
- Potomac Local, April 30, 2026 — QTS intends to challenge court ruling
- NBC4 Washington, May 2, 2025 — Youngkin vetoes HB1601 data center reform bill
- WTOP, May 2025 — Virginia data center reform bill vetoed by Gov. Youngkin
- Virginia Mercury — budget stalemate (May 2026), Spanberger data center position, SB 553 water reporting
- WUSA9, citing Good Jobs First — $267M education impact, county-level breakdowns
- Blue Ridge Leader, citing JLARC — 1.6 billion gallons Loudoun County, 10% of county water use
- Sierra Club Virginia Chapter — 5 million gallons/day per single large data center
- Grist — 250% increase in Loudoun data center water use 2019-2023, drought context
- WaterVerge — Loudoun County data center water consumption analysis
- Business Insider, February 21, 2025 — DCC PAC contributions, 27 reform bills overview
- Liberty Nation News / Annandale Today — Youngkin veto record (201 bills in 2025 session)