When we last checked in on Culpeper County, Virginia, folks there were contesting the construction of an Amazon datacenter while officials sought to attract more server-hosting estates to the area.went ahead in the end, the county's strategy has changed. Rather than foster five development zones packed with cloud computing centers, it opted instead for a more modest Culpeper Technology Zone, or CTZ."Power is not unlimited everywhere. We are taking a much smaller approach.
The county wants to avoid over-saturating itself with these kinds of installations, as other parts of the US East Coast. Datacenter builders love putting down buildings in this region of America, there is huge demand to develop land for that industry, and the CTZ is simply"the best we could do to prepare for it," Rothamel said.