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City data-center white paper circulated September
22, 2025
Complete nine-page City brief extracted from a 117-page attachment
The City Manager’s September 22, 2025 message to Mayor Jones identifies an attached City white paper
and supporting materials. The following nine pages reproduce that white paper, including its appendix,
without changes.
The brief proposes a technology-infrastructure strategy, identifies attracting data centers as an objective,
discusses advantages and risks, and recommends consultant-supported planning, site selection,
governance, public engagement and marketing. Its schedule is expressly preliminary and tentative.
Source: City public FOIA release G012027-100925, 000000094.eml (control 52), Alan Archer to Phillip Jones, September 22,
2025, 22:21:54 UTC. Attachment: Data Centers Combined Doc.pdf, physical pages 1–9 of 117. The full original attachment is
retained. The other JLARC/VEDP documents and site flyers are not included in this extract.
Publication treatment: ANN source cover followed by all nine original white-paper pages. Document date identifies documented
circulation, not authorship or formal adoption. Public PDF pages 2–10 correspond to original printed pages 1–9.
The brief’s statements about other localities, policy, legal developments, infrastructure and economic effects are attributed
historical staff analysis, not independently verified findings or current legal advice. It does not document an approved
data-center development, a completed Dominion study or a contribution-related condition. This September packet has not
been established as identical to the package named in the August 4 work list.
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