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A developer abandons its share of a datacenter campus beside a battlefield

development2026-07-03

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Blackstone's QTS abandoned its slice of a 2,100-acre Virginia data center campus beside a Civil War battlefield, handing residents a rare win, while the chip lobby warned Washington that meddling with memory prices would only deepen the shortage.

Reported metric: 2,100 acres

Reporting date: 2026-07-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to July 3, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A developer abandons its share of a datacenter campus beside a battlefield
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-07-03
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-07-03-a-campus-abandoned-beside-a-battlefield
Claim: Blackstone's QTS abandoned its slice of a 2,100-acre Virginia data center campus beside a Civil War battlefield, handing residents a rare win, while the chip lobby warned Washington that meddling with memory prices would only deepen the shortage.
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- Welcome to July 3, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-july-3-2026
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