QUICK CHAT: Data Center Legislative Update on the Virginia General Assembly Session

March 29, 2024
Don Slaiman of IBEW Local 26 discusses recent Virginia data center legislative updates and political coordination.

IBEW Local 26’s Political Coordinator, Don Slaiman, joins Data Center Frontier Editor in Chief Matt Vincent to discuss data center legislative updates from the Virginia General Assembly session.

The IBEW Local 26 represents 12,000 union electricians in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia, many of whom build data centers. The quality craftsman of IBEW signatory contractors offer a best-in-class, reliable workforce who specialize in providing data centers with electricians to meet the  fast-tracked deadlines of the largest projects in the DC metro area, on time and on budget.

 

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