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Eaton invests $50M+ in new Virginia facility to advance grid-to-chip AI data center solutions
PITTSBURGH, December 10, 2025--Intelligent power management company Eaton today announced it will open a new manufacturing campus in Henrico County, Virginia, for critical power distribution technologies to help meet record demand from data center customers. With more than 50 new data centers already permitted in Virginia this year, Eaton is increasing regional manufacturing for technologies vital to data center equipment uptime and reliability.
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