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NBC examines air-quality concerns at school surrounded by data centers

Stephanie Gosk's report visits a Northern Virginia elementary school and questions the potential pollution from nearby backup diesel generators.

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Why this story? One of NBC News's most watched videos since yesterday, with 290,772 views.

NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas Full Episode - Oct. 28

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Discovery Elementary School in Loudoun County, Virginia, is surrounded by 11 commercial data centers. In NBC Nightly News's October 28 broadcast, Stephanie Gosk examines concerns about what that concentration of infrastructure could mean for the school's air quality.

The report focuses in part on the centers' backup diesel generators and their potential impact. It brings the data center debate down to a specific location: a school whose neighbors supply computing infrastructure, but also raise questions about pollution.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger criticizes how the development unfolded. "The expansion of data centers across Loudoun County should have been done vastly differently," she tells NBC. Her remarks put planning decisions alongside the air-quality concerns at the center of Gosk's segment.

The full broadcast drew roughly 291,000 views since yesterday. Tom Llamas opens with reporting on Spain's fatal train collision, while later segments cover an attempted kidnapping in Honolulu and a remembrance of farmworker organizer Dolores Huerta. The school investigation begins about thirteen minutes into the episode.

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