November 03, 2026 Virginia
Dominion Energy reports 54.9 gigawatts of data center capacity in various stages of contracting across Virginia, a 13 percent increase from December 2025. The Richmond-based utility disclosed the figure with its third-quarter 2026 results. The pipeline splits across three contracting stages,...
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October 29, 2026 Richmond
Google is considering a 1,200MW data center campus on about 1,000 acres in Goochland County, Virginia, the county confirmed on Oct. 28. The county's announcement named Google as the company behind a project that appeared in Virginia regulatory filings in July without an identified owner. Google...
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October 27, 2026 Northern Virginia
Amazon has settled its civil claims against two former AWS real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on Northern Virginia data center deals. The company told a federal court on October 20 that it had reached the agreement with Carl Nelson and Casey Kirschner, less than two weeks before...
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October 21, 2026 Ashburn: Data Center Alley
Amazon Data Services has withdrawn its application to build four data centers on the former George Washington University campus in Ashburn, Virginia, ending a months-long standoff with Loudoun County. Officials announced the agreement, called Project Potomac Promise, at the Oct. 20 Board of...
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October 15, 2026 Virginia
State Sen. Russet Perry on Tuesday released draft legislation that would halt approvals for new data centers across Virginia for three years, escalating the political fight over the industry's growth in the world's largest data center market. Senate Bill 843 would take effect July 1, 2027 and...
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October 15, 2026 Virginia
Virginia could introduce a three-year data center moratorium under Senate Bill 843, proposed by Democratic Senator Russet Perry, who represents Loudoun County. If passed, the bill would prevent state agencies from approving data center planning applications for three years from July 1, 2027....
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October 13, 2026 Virginia
Texas now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than Virginia. Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW built or building in Texas, against 17.8 GW in Virginia. On capacity already online, Virginia still leads, 12.3 GW to 11.1 GW. If projects scheduled for this year deliver on time, Texas...
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September 25, 2026 Virginia
Prince William County in Northern Virginia is reducing “by-right” zoning for data center projects amid growing public opposition to AI infrastructure. County supervisors voted to shrink the Prince William data center opportunity zone overlay district, where qualifying data centers can currently...
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September 18, 2026 Virginia
Virginia’s Loudoun County has approved a 12-month moratorium on new data center applications, effective immediately. The Board of Supervisors voted 7-1 for the pause, with Supervisor Kristen Umstattd voting against and Caleb Kershner abstaining. The motion was introduced by Algonkian District...
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August 04, 2026 Virginia
Three men have been arrested after allegedly stealing copper wire from a data center construction site in Loudoun County, Virginia. Police responded to reports of a burglary at a construction site near 45000 Maries Road in Sterling shortly before 12:30 a.m. on July 31. On August 1, authorities...
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August 03, 2026 Virginia
Dominion Energy, Virginia's primary electric utility, has added more than 5GW of contracted data center load to its pipeline since the end of last year. During its Q2 earnings call, the company said the increase represents an 11% rise. Previously, in its Q4 earnings report released in February,...
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July 14, 2026 Virginia
A former ethanol plant in Hopewell, Virginia, near Richmond, is being evaluated for redevelopment into a data center. Data center consulting firm Volterra Advisors is studying the site at 701 S 6th Ave, with plans potentially calling for a 20MW facility spanning 50,000–70,000 sq ft (4,645–6,505...
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May 25, 2026 Virginia
Stack Infrastructure has completed external construction work on the first building at its new campus in Stafford County. The company announced the topping out of the first building at the Stafford Technology Campus (STC). In just over a year, project teams have recorded more than 425,000 hours...
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May 13, 2026 Virginia
Developer Highland Properties Manassas LLC has withdrawn its proposal to develop Quantico Ridge, a roughly 160-acre data center project in Prince William County, Virginia. The company also pulled its application to rezone land parcels at 14854 and 14900 Dumfries Road for industrial use. The...
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April 15, 2026 Virginia
A new data center campus has been proposed outside Leesburg in Virginia’s Loudoun County. First reported by BizJournal, the Farkas family has filed a pre-meeting application with the county to develop a campus on undeveloped land along the west side of Gulick Mill Road, south of Leesburg, west of...
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March 21, 2026 Virginia
A new data center project may be planned in the heart of Virginia’s Data Center Alley. DCD understands that the Regency neighborhood in Ashburn, Loudoun County, is in talks to sell the site to a data center developer once planning approval is secured.Regency is a residential community of around...
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March 05, 2026 Virginia
Private equity firm HighBrook Investors has closed its first US data center fund, securing $266 million in total commitments. The launch of the fund was first reported last year. HighBrook said the fund saw contributions from existing investors alongside new institutions, including leading...
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February 28, 2026 Virginia
The two houses of Virginia’s legislature, the Senate and the House, have passed two competing budgets that call, respectively, for the removal and approval of an existing data center sales tax exemption. The Senate’s budget proposal calls for ending the exemption effective January 1, 2027,...
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February 21, 2026 Virginia
US’ largest grid operator, PJM Interconnection, has approved an $11.8 billion transmission expansion plan to keep up with surging data center connection requests across its footprint. The Regional Transmission Operator (RTO) serves all or parts of 15 states across the East Coast and South of the...
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February 07, 2026 Virginia
Real estate firm TA Realty and its data center development arm, TA Digital Group (TADG), this week announced the sale of two hyperscale data center buildings totaling 745,000 sq ft (69,210 sqm) and 165MW of IT load capacity in Leesburg, Loudoun County.The facilities are the first two completed...
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