Virginia

“We're having a major debate right now at the state level about trying to extract, you know, somewhere between five hundred million and a billion dollars a year from the industry.”

“The state battle that's going on in Virginia right now, I've said to the industry, you guys got to watch this because we are the mother load of data centers. And if there is some adjustment of the kind of economic deal that's going to happen in Virginia, that …”

“In one of the counties we work with, it's an affluent-ish county in the Virginia area South American cartels fly illegal drones through these neighborhoods. They'll flip on night vision, look through houses to see if anyone's home, then go break in.”

“One year later, we have a joint development agreement and we're building our first power plant on a Dominion owned site in Virginia.”

“And we have seen cost reductions up to 80% in, in California and 60% in Virginia While the electricity rate was really almost half than in California.”

“Virginia is, you know, 30, just under 34 terawatt hours of power consumed by data centers in 2020 three, and almost 26% of state power already going to that.”

“I remember there was a time where I was building a data center in Virginia and we consumed a 200 mile radius of all of the electricians in the region in Southern Virginia had to pay overtime for them to travel. And that was for 30 megawatts.”

“And in fact this is what Dominion Energy did for their offshore wind demonstration project off the coast of Virginia a few years ago They installed, I think, two turbines, and they did the whole, they ran the whole thing out of Canada, I think St. John, Canad…”

“New York, Virginia 450 to 500,000 dollars to pay consulting firms, to pay people 25, 26 dollars per signature to just sit outside and just say, hey, can we get your signature to get this guy on a ballot?”

“Virginia is where most of the cloud workloads in the world are.”

“In California, when we talk about the definition of a sale of user data, it's for anything of value, not just monetary value. In Virginia, the definition is really around monetary value.”

“Sensitive data under Virginia law. You must opt into, you must affirmatively say, yes, I will share my data. Whereas in California, it's an opt out regime. Meaning if you don't say anything, the assumption is you're allowing your data to be shared. You need to…”

“So he built this custom platform for this and then licensed it to 23 schools in the state of Virginia, for example.”

“Cancel culture the negative side of woke culture is extraordinarily pernicious, but I also think it maybe has peaked, and you see this in my state of Virginia, Seemed to have become a totally blue state, and they elected a Republican governor.”

“Number one issue why Glenn Youngkin won in Virginia was, that was schools.”

“When Pat first looked at this business, he saw that most states in the U.S., other than Virginia, didn't allow for digital notary, and they required an in-person witness.”