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PCs for People officially selects the Richmond-Hampton Roads megaregion as its next expansion market

PCs for People founder and CEO, Casey Sorensen, officially announced at the Convergence 2024 conference on Oct. 1 that PCs for People has selected the Richmond-Hampton Roads megaregion as its next expansion market. 

PCs for People is the largest and most successful national nonprofit computer refurbisher, operating in large U.S. markets with a vision to end the digital divide. PCs for People collects outdated computers, at no cost to the donating businesses and organizations; refurbishes the old computers and installs the latest software; and provides the renewed desktop systems to underserved residents and families for free and late-model laptops up to $150.

Our Mission

Improve the economic success and quality of life for everyone in the Richmond region (RVA) and Hampton Roads (757).

The world’s next Global Internet Hub isn’t a city, but a megaregion:
The Richmond region and Hampton Roads

The world’s next Global Internet Hub isn’t a single city but rather an area from the Richmond region to Hampton Roads. Known as the I-64 Innovation Corridor, located just two hours south of Washington, D.C., this 8,000 square mile megaregion has a combined population of more than 3 million residents, placing it among the top 20 largest U.S. regions. (Click on the map to enlarge.)

RVA757 Connects hightlights innovations taking place in the I-64 Innovation Corridor megaregion from the Richmond region to Hampton Roads through its monthly webinars called Virtual Innovation Spotlight.

The webinars are held on the first Wednesdays of every month (except for July and August) from noon to 1 p.m. The webinars are free, but registration is required.

Join us for our upcoming Virtual Innovation Spotlight:

Closing the digital divide in Virginia: The journey here and the road ahead 

Join RVA757 Connects on Wednesday November 6 at noon to learn about the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development’s ongoing efforts to close the digital divide in Virginia through broadband access, affordability and adoption. The state agency manages a portfolio of nearly $2 billion in combined state and federal grants.

2024 Virtual Innovation Spotlights:
Closing the digital divide in Virginia: The journey here and the road ahead
Closing the digital divide in Virginia: The journey here and the road ahead

The Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development's Office of Broadband manages a portfolio of nearly $2 billion in combined state and federal grants to close the digital divide in Virginia, including local and private investments on broadband infrastructure projects across the state. The agency also will manage an additional  $1.5 billion in federal funding from the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program and $18 million in Digital Equity Act program that will support access, affordability, and adoption. 

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Hampton Roads is emerging as a hub for hydrogen innovation
Hampton Roads is emerging as a hub for hydrogen innovation

Hampton Roads is emerging as a hub for hydrogen innovation. Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center in Newport News is spearheading the Hydrogen Tech Center initiative, a collaborative hydrogen research and demonstration project that aims to better define and showcase how clean hydrogen and other emerging technologies could play a role in the region’s energy mix.

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Digital Innovation: Norfolk-based startup transforming waiting rooms with app-free digital entertainment
Digital Innovation: Norfolk-based startup transforming waiting rooms with app-free digital entertainment

Magazine Jukebox is a Norfolk-based startup designed as the first digital entertainment platform that allows customers to access popular magazines and other content in waiting rooms and coffeeshops without needing to download an app and at no cost to the customer.

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2023 Virtual Innovation Spotlights:
Lifting Off: Rocket Lab bringing new launch capabilities to Virginia’s Eastern Shore
Lifting Off: Rocket Lab bringing new launch capabilities to Virginia’s Eastern Shore

Rocket Lab is lifting off from Virginia’s Eastern Shore, elevating the profile of one of the lesser-known spaceports in the U.S. Rocket Lab also has selected Virginia’s Eastern Shore for the launch and manufacturing for its new reusable Neutron rocket.

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Forefront of innovation: Jefferson Lab lands a state-of-the-art supercomputing hub
Forefront of innovation: Jefferson Lab lands a state-of-the-art supercomputing hub

Jefferson Lab in Newport News is at the forefront of innovation as the site for a new national data science computing center. The new High Performance Data Facility is a $300 million to $500 million project – the single biggest technology investment ever made in Hampton Roads.

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Having an internet exchange in the Richmond market is boosting the region’s digital infrastructure
Having an internet exchange in the Richmond market is boosting the region’s digital infrastructure

DE-CIX is one of the world's largest and most influential internet exchange operators. The German-based technology company has extended that influence to the Richmond region where it has established an internet exchange point.

DE-CIX operates 40-plus of these IXPs around the world, including in only four other U.S. markets - New York, Dallas, Chicago, and Phoenix.

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Hanover Economic Development highlights RVA757 Connects’ Global Internet Hub map
Hanover Economic Development highlights RVA757 Connects’ Global Internet Hub map


The Hanover County Economic Development Department highlighted RVA757 Connects' Global Internet Hub map in its Annual Report.

Dominion Energy pioneering renewable innovation with offshore wind project
Dominion Energy pioneering renewable innovation with offshore wind project
Old Dominion, new data: Data center industry continues expansion
Old Dominion, new data: Data center industry continues expansion

There is growing interest from the data center community to look at places outside of Northern Virginia.

The Richmond region and Hampton Roads are marketing themselves as the next big places for data centers to locate, with more available land than Northern Virginia, and connections to three major subsea cables originating in Europe and South America that come ashore in Virginia Beach and connect to the East Coast at QTS Data Centers’ network access point (NAP) in Henrico County

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For more information about our initiatives or to get involved, reach out to:

John W. Martin
President and CEO

Gregory J. Gilligan
Vice President of Operations


Adair Collins
Program Manger



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2601 Floyd Avenue
Richmond, VA 23220

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