Virginia’s Loudoun County advanced a proposal to pause reviews of new data-center and substation applications for up to 12 months.

The supplied report identifies Loudoun County in northern Virginia as a core part of Data Center Alley (数据中心巷). It says the county advanced a measure concerning applications for both new data centers and substations.

The proposed action is a pause in application reviews for up to 12 months (拟暂停审查新的数据中心和变电站申请，暂停期限最长可达 12 个月). The report does not establish that the pause has taken effect or that the maximum duration has been adopted.

The stated scope concerns new applications, not closure of operating data centers. No vote tally, effective date, exemptions, treatment of pending applications, or affected power capacity is supplied.