Virginia’s Loudoun County Board of Supervisors announced that Amazon will not move forward with plans for a new data center in the county after the community pushed back against the development.

The announcement comes as activism against data center development has become widespread across the United States, with constituents raising concerns that artificial intelligence computing infrastructure is draining their local water and energy resources. Loudoun County, home to the highest concentration of data centers in the world, has been at the center of much of this pushback, with county officials voting to place a one-year moratorium on new developments in September.

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