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Dozier Road energy-production and storage site: October 14, 2025 draft

City of Newport News · Department of DevelopmentDocument date: October 14, 2025

Released draft RFI response identifies 270, 280 and 294 Dozier Road, 19.35 acres, as EDA-controlled land. It describes nearby Dominion lines, possible extensions or a substation, with capacity and service options requiring utility confirmation and a load assessment. This is an energy-production/storage draft, not a final commercial data-center contract, electrical-service commitment or executed easement.

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Released draft RFI response identifies 270, 280 and 294 Dozier Road, 19.35 acres, as EDA-controlled land. It describes nearby Dominion lines, possible extensions or a substation, with capacity and service options requiring utility confirmation and a load assessment. This is an energy-production/storage draft, not a final commercial data-center contract, electrical-service commitment or executed easement.

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Reviewed October 26, 2026. G012154-101725, Kingston mailbox bundle, attachment HR Alliance Dozier Road RFI.docx in October 14 email 000000003.eml. ANN source cover plus a faithful four-page PDF rendering of the unchanged released DOCX. Site and acreage: public PDF page 2; electricity discussion: page 4. Date is documented circulation, not an approval or execution date. Original DOCX hash and publication-copy hash retained separately. Distinct from the York County Waterworks easement.

File: nn_dozier_energy_site_draft_2025-10-14.pdf

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September 5, 2025 EDA/IDA minutes: Council interest in data centers

City of Newport News · Economic / Industrial Development AuthoritiesDocument date: September 5, 2025

Complete approved nine-page minutes, preceded by an ANN source cover. Florence Kingston reports Council interest in data centers and tax revenue; VEDP’s Vince Barnett discusses power, utility partnerships, zoning and fast-track permitting. The minutes also record a separate CNI parking-light utility easement. Attributed discussion is not an adopted City data-center policy or evidence of a contribution-for-action agreement.

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Complete approved nine-page minutes, preceded by an ANN source cover. Florence Kingston reports Council interest in data centers and tax revenue; VEDP’s Vince Barnett discusses power, utility partnerships, zoning and fast-track permitting. The minutes also record a separate CNI parking-light utility easement. Attributed discussion is not an adopted City data-center policy or evidence of a contribution-for-action agreement.

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Reviewed October 26, 2026. G012154-101725, 000000008_R.pdf, uploaded October 20, 2025: physical pages 35–43 extracted unchanged from the 52-page redacted packet. Meeting September 5; approved October 3. ANN cover is public PDF page 1; data-center discussion appears on public pages 4–5 (printed 3–4). The other packet sections are not reproduced. Duplicate minutes in another release are the same document, not independent corroboration.

File: nn_eda_ida_minutes_2025-09-05_public_extract.pdf

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VEDP’s September 5, 2025 Newport News data-center presentation

Virginia state agencies · Virginia Economic Development PartnershipDocument date: September 5, 2025

Seventeen-slide presentation to the Newport News EDA and IDA, Data Centers — An Expanding Opportunity for Virginia. Page 15 recommends utility partnerships, faster permitting, senior local-government permit advocates and tax competitiveness. These are VEDP recommendations, not proof Newport News adopted them or Dominion requested them. Statewide economic and pipeline figures remain the presenter’s claims.

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Seventeen-slide presentation to the Newport News EDA and IDA, Data Centers — An Expanding Opportunity for Virginia. Page 15 recommends utility partnerships, faster permitting, senior local-government permit advocates and tax competitiveness. These are VEDP recommendations, not proof Newport News adopted them or Dominion requested them. Statewide economic and pipeline figures remain the presenter’s claims.

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Reviewed October 26, 2026. Individual GovQA G012027-100925 attachment Data_Centers_Presentation_NewportNews_DataCenter_9-4-25.pdf, all 17 pages unchanged. Cover dates the presentation September 5 despite the filename. Physical page 12 retains CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION; this is a City publicly released copy and the label is preserved. Pages 13 and 15 contain site-selection and permitting recommendations. Presenter and occasion also appear in approved meeting minutes.

File: Data_Centers_Presentation_NewportNews_DataCenter_9-4-25.pdf

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Dominion Energy 2025 annual report: Virginia investment and earnings model

Other public body · Dominion Energy / SEC filingDocument date: Date not specified

Physical page 20 (printed page 10) describes the Virginia investment plan, data-center demand and how regulated investment returns differ from fuel-cost recovery.

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Company-authored primary report for the year ended December 31, 2025, issued in 2026. Reviewed against the locally retained 184-page PDF. No precise publication day assigned. Source-only catalog record; the full publisher PDF is linked. Investment plans are forecasts, not Newport News spending or earned profit.

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Virginia LIS: 2026 Regular Session bill-history data

Virginia state agencies · Virginia Legislative Information SystemDocument date: Date not specified

Official session data used to match bill actions, vote identifiers and coded member votes. The download covers the session, not only this case’s selected bills.

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Official individual CSV download reviewed October 26, 2026; source-only. No publication date is assigned. VOTE.CSV has no header: each row starts with a vote ID followed by member-ID/vote pairs. HISTORY.CSV has named columns. Member identities are separately checked against LIS profiles. Retained source SHA-256: 46a19424314bd70a17657f7031b32483428670b237d739ee6bf8762de6cd95c2.

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Virginia LIS: 2026 Regular Session roll-call data

Virginia state agencies · Virginia Legislative Information SystemDocument date: Date not specified

Official session data used to match bill actions, vote identifiers and coded member votes. The download covers the session, not only this case’s selected bills.

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Official individual CSV download reviewed October 26, 2026; source-only. No publication date is assigned. VOTE.CSV has no header: each row starts with a vote ID followed by member-ID/vote pairs. HISTORY.CSV has named columns. Member identities are separately checked against LIS profiles. Retained source SHA-256: cbf0ae5d4f93dff2304faf511dd5f8e97f2517b9a2de0c6e9938bd0c7d2d74d0.

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Virginia LIS: J.D. “Danny” Diggs — 2026 member identity

Virginia state agencies · Virginia General Assembly / SenateDocument date: Date not specified

Official member identity used to interpret the session’s coded roll-call data.

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Source-only official profile checked October 26, 2026. The member code is S0119. The LIS page title identifies this senator. No profile publication date is assigned; state legislators have separate case-linked state-office profiles and are not classified as City employees.

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Virginia LIS: Mamie E. Locke — 2026 member identity

Virginia state agencies · Virginia General Assembly / SenateDocument date: Date not specified

Official member identity used to interpret the session’s coded roll-call data.

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Source-only official profile checked October 26, 2026. The member code is S0067. The LIS page title identifies this senator. No profile publication date is assigned; state legislators have separate case-linked state-office profiles and are not classified as City employees.

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SB 339 (2026): utility cost-allocation proposal and history

Virginia state agencies · Virginia General AssemblyDocument date: Date not specified

Bill and official history concerning allocation of transmission, generation and distribution costs associated with high-load customers. Senate passage is distinct from enactment.

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Source-only bill page checked with the 2026 official session bulk files. Senate passage: February 17, vote SV505, 40–0. The House Labor and Commerce history continued it to the next session March 5; it was not enacted in the reviewed 2026 history. No bill-page publication date is assigned.

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SCC: Dominion deferred-fuel financing order, PUR-2026-00078

Virginia state agencies · Virginia State Corporation CommissionDocument date: September 29, 2026

September 29 financing order authorizes securitization and recovery of eligible deferred fuel and financing costs under the statutory process. It connects the 2026 legislation to a specific regulatory proceeding.

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Primary SCC order reproduced as SEC exhibit 99.1. Source-only HTML with printed page numbers. Pages 2, 4 and 7 explain the authority, petition and $931,851,010 eligible balance inclusive of upfront financing costs, subject to adjustment. This is cost recovery, not an equivalent amount of profit or political contributions. Reviewed October 26, 2026.

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2026 Acts chapter 1124 (SB 253): electric-utility rates and cost recovery

Virginia state agencies · Virginia General AssemblyDocument date: May 14, 2026

Enacted text includes weatherization funding, underground-line cost recovery, protection against high-load customer cross-subsidies, tariff provisions and authority to seek deferred-fuel financing.

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Complete two-page official session-law PDF. Approved May 14, effective July 1, 2026, as confirmed in official HISTORY.CSV. Clauses 2–5 are distinct provisions; a vote on an earlier conference report or selected recommendations is not a vote on each final clause in isolation.

File: sb253-2026-chapter1124.pdf

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City Digital Infrastructure Readiness Plan: published scope

City of Newport News · City of Newport NewsDocument date: Date not specified

City explanation of a separate infrastructure planning process and its stated limits.

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Reviewed October 25, 2026. Page describes strategic planning, no developer deal or commitment in that process, and hyperscale facilities as infeasible. Its scope must be distinguished from the described internal AI server room; no contradiction or connection is inferred without a project crosswalk.

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City contract list dated October 18, 2026: ePlus 20-3019-00

City of Newport News · Office of PurchasingDocument date: October 18, 2026

City purchasing list identifying ePlus as a cooperative technology reseller, vendor 16681.

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Retrieved list internally dated October 18, 2026; PDF page 3 of 18. Lists 20-3019-00, Technology Value-Added Resellers, vendor 16681, COOP, estimated start February 20, 2020, current term end January 1, 2028, estimated end December 31, 2029, administrator Simone Williams. This is the currently retrieved edition of mutable DocumentCenter ID 18339, distinct from the older September-labeled catalog entry. No AI order or amount is listed. Additional targeted review October 27, 2026: PDF page 16 also lists SIR contracts 26-3357-00 and 26-3642-01. This is the same maintained DocumentCenter edition, reused for a second subject without creating a duplicate source record.