Vampire Pimps: The Virginia Energy Plan’s Green Vandalism

Governor Spanberger’s executive order for “Virginia’s Data Center Accountability Framework” left some of us hopeful that the public outcry concerning secretive and exploitative development deals had been attended to.

I regret to inform you that it was another bait and switch. Witness the “Virginia Energy Plan” published on October 1, 2026.

Read for yourself here: https://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2026/RD624/PDF

This plan makes plain that the Commonwealth is committed to two goals that are irreconcilable without vast destruction to forests, farmland, and coastland, to wit, more data centers and net-zero.

The Energy Plan is bracingly honest in certain respects. It acknowledges that data centers will have massive energy needs that the Commonwealth’s infrastructure can not yet satisfy. And it admits that our commitment to net-zero “green” technology means that we will have to sacrifice the environment and the scenery. It’s something of a Satanic pact, to be sure, but the VEP doesn’t flinch.

The VEP acknowledges that “Virginia is the world’s largest data-center market” and “projects that data centers could account for more than 90% of the Commonwealth’s electricity demand growth over the next two decades.”

Data centers will require “hundreds of billions in energy investment in generation, storage, and grid infrastructure needed to support this growth and meet Virginia’s clean energy goals”:

And net-zero by 2050 will necessitate “expansive buildout of solar, storage, wind, and nuclear”:

This document is clear-eyed on another ugly point: solar destroys land. The VEP notes that, historically, solar installations have replaced either forest or farmland, “with 50% of utility scale solar to date being developed on forested land and 40% on farmland.”

Meeting the immediate energy needs of data centers, it is estimated, will require the ruination of another 233,000 to 277,000 acres of forest and farmland! To reduce carbon, we must kill the very trees that reduce carbon.

“Other Supportive Actions” include offshore wind development, the siting of multiple nuclear reactors, and research into nuclear fusion:

Offshore wind installations are, in fact, currently mandated by the Virginia Code:

“§ 56-585.1:11. Development of offshore wind capacity.

“B. In order to meet the Commonwealth’s clean energy goals, prior to December 31, 2032, the construction or purchase by a public utility of one or more offshore wind generation facilities located off the Commonwealth’s Atlantic shoreline or in federal waters and interconnected directly into the Commonwealth, with an aggregate capacity of up to 5,200 megawatts, is in the public interest and the Commission shall so find, provided that no customers of the utility shall be responsible for costs of any such facility in a proportion greater than the utility’s ownership share of the facility, including any ownership share held by an offshore wind affiliate.”

Generating 5,200 megawatts should require between 500 and 1,000 wind turbines. So long, marine and avian life forms!

The Old Dominion is being strip mined, make no mistake. Surely Big Oil is slavering. Have they ever had a bigger coup? From, once again, “The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship’:

“The Big Banks and the Big Oil companies–part of the group the green lobby calls the “Big Polluter”–have been enthusiastic supporters of sustainable development for generations. It’s no secret that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which drives much of the climate alarm the mainstream media hype to convince the public to embrace sustainable development, was formed thanks largely to the efforts of Rockefeller-backed Canadian oil tycoon Maurice Strong.

“The major petroleum corporations are among those who stand to gain the most from the “net zero” transition. The most powerful carbon market lobby group in the world, the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), is supported by every Big Polluter imaginable–including oil giants PetroChina, Shell Energy, and the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco).”

The Virginia Energy Plan sets the stage for a vast corporate vandalism. It must be resisted.

Also in this series:

Vampire Pimps: Hull, Cobb, & Corporate Voodoo

Vampire Pimps: Roanoke and the Western Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Authority

Vampire Pimps: AI Ready Roanoke

Vampire Pimps: Going Regional, Going Global

Delegate Terry Austin: A Primer on Evasive Political Flatulence

Vampire Pimps: In Their Own Words

Private Betrayal, Public Defiance: Botetourt’s Board of Supervisors

Vomitous Prattle & Statutory Conspiracy: The 2026 Comprehensive Plan

The 2026 Comprehensive Plan: Bend Over

The Botetourt Data Center, The Planning Commission, and Broken Promises