“Governor, read the damn room,” Virginia state Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas (D-VA) told Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) this week.

The unusually public rebuke underscores a growing democratic divide over one of Virginia’s most controversial industries: data centers. 

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