Prince William School Board member Erica Tredinnick of the Brentsville District is working with lobbying firm LSI Communications, also known as LSI 360, a group advising residents involved in PW Digital Gateway land sales.
Warrenton-based LSI Communications represents Pageland Lane property owners as they navigate selling their properties to make way for the massive data center project near Gainesville. Pageland residents have an agreement to sell their land to data center developers QTS and Compass to build the Digital Gateway campus across over 2,100 acres in western Prince William.
Property owners stand to make approximately $1 million per acre. The project, should it continue to move forward, would include 37 data centers and be the largest in the world. The campus is on pause as legal challenges play out in the court system.
Tredinnick, who ran with Republican support, has represented the Brentsville District on the School Board since 2024. School Board members do not directly vote on land-use issues, but they can advocate against land use that would negatively affect schools either personally or through a School Board vote.
Braemar community residents are concerned a newly proposed transmission line would run through their neighborhood and affect areas around Patriot High School, T. Clay Wood Elementary School and Marsteller Middle School.
Additionally, many Brentsville District residents – particularly those in Bristow – have protested data center development encroaching upon their neighborhoods, school and parks.
Bristow Beat obtained an email from Tredinnick to LSI and on Dec. 4 called a phone number provided, at which time Tredinnick answered and confirmed she worked for LSI 360.
She said her employment there is unrelated to her School Board position and there was no reason to contact her at her work number. She asked who provided the information and said she would not discuss a School Board matter at her work before ending the call.
At last Wednesday’s School Board meeting – from which Treddinick was absent – several Bristow residents asked that the School Board oppose the transmission lines near schools.
Before Tredinnick sat on the School Board she held a community role as the Brentsville commissioner on the Parks and Recreation Board and the Racial and Social Justice Committee.
She later worked for Brentsville Supervisor Jeanine Lawson’s successor, Republican Tom Gordy, as his chief of staff.
In the email provided to Bristow Beat an “Erica T” details the company’s plan to arrange a Zoom meeting with the members of the “Robin Homes Community.” There is no local HOA community with that name; however, there is a Robins Drive in Catharpin in the approximate area of the land proposed to be the Digital Gateway.
“I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Erica, a lifelong Prince William resident,” read the email. “My team and I are here to help finalize your agreement and ensure ongoing, reliable updates as the project progresses … We are still targeting a Board of County Supervisors vote in Q4 2026. Our internal and external teams – including consultants, engineers, and attorneys – will continue advancing the project efficiently.”
LSI is the same company former Gainesville Supervisor Pete Candland, a Republican, worked for after leaving office. Through LSI, he advocated for the Pageland residents selling their property to data center developers.
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