Survey results from the U.S. Census showed a higher percentage of households in Virginia lacked home Internet access in November 2021 than at any other point in which data was collected over the last ten years. About 34 percent of households in Virginia said they did not have home Internet access, second only to Idaho (39 percent) and Nebraska (37 percent). On average, 23 percent of U.S. households said they did not have home Internet in the 2021 survey.
This comes as the number of data centers providing global Internet access have grown significantly across the region, making Northern Virginia the world leader in the prevalence of data center operations and construction, as measured by the number of data centers and their total power capacity.
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