Ashburn Resident Considers Selling Neighborhood to Data Center
Mital Gandhi, a resident of Ashburn, Virginia, whose community has been increasingly surrounded by data centers, is contemplating selling his entire neighborhood to one of these facilities.
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Data centers are taking over the suburbs. This man wants to sell his entire neighborhood to one.
Mital Gandhi, 47, is a resident of Ashburn, Virginia, whose community has been overtaken by data centers. Stephen Voss for BI Mital Gandhi remembers watching the 2024 NBA Finals on TV at his home in Ashburn, Virginia, when he realized something wasn't right. Instead of hearing the ball bouncing or the intermittent squeaks from shoes on the hardwood, his ears could only focus on a constant hum. That hum, he said, came from one of the four data centers less than 2,000 feet away from his proper...
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