February 15, 2024 Virginia
The Loudoun County Planning Commission has rejected a data center proposed along Route 28 and the Old Ox Road interchange, close to Dulles International Airport in Virginia. This proposed project called "Innovation Gateway" project was for a 425-unit apartment building and 700,000 sq ft (65,030...
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January 03, 2024 Virginia
A group of residents in Prince William County, Virginia recently sued the Board of County Supervisors through their formed non-profit "Devlin Defend Corporation” over a data center development. The residents submitted this lawsuit on December 28, hoping to stop the development of a nine-building...
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December 27, 2023 Virginia
Hourigan, a local developer has proposed a 320-acre data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia. The company has requested to rezone the land from agricultural to light industrial, noting that it expects to see around $1 billion invested in the project. The company said in a filing with...
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December 20, 2023 Virginia
Virginia's Fauquier County Board of Supervisors has approved a set of policies designed to curb data center developments in the area. These guidelines have been put in place to protect the county's rural character, the health and welfare of its citizens, as well as the value of the residential...
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December 14, 2023 Virginia
Cielo Digital Infrastructure is now on track to develop a 1.4 million square feet data center facility upon approval from Virginia’s Culpeper Country board. This project will be built on a 121-acre parcel along Nalles Mill Road following the County Board of Supervisors' vote to approve the...
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November 29, 2023 Virginia
A group of 20 environmental and climate groups will launch a coalition this week to rein in the data center industry across the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition will call for limits to data center development at a press conference on Friday, December 1. The...
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October 26, 2023 Virginia
The US Department of Labor (DOL) has awarded community colleges in Virginia $5 million in funding in an attempt to bridge the data center skills gap as a part of its Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs grant program. Seven of Virginia's community colleges will be using this grant which will...
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September 28, 2023 Virginia
Chuck Kuhn's real estate firm, JK Land Holdings, has expanded the proposed Gainesville data center via land acquisition in Virginia's Prince William County through its Wellington Road LLC affiliate. The company has also filed an application, which is currently under review, for up to 3.8 million...
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September 25, 2023 Virginia
Chirisa Investments has secured financing for constructing a data center in Chester, Virginia. According to Commercial Observer, Chirisa received $200 million in construction funding to build CoreWeave's 242,000-square-foot turnkey data center. CO's sources revealed that an undisclosed Brookfield...
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September 20, 2023 Virginia
Chirisa Investments has secured financing for constructing a data center in Chester, Virginia. Chirisa received $200 million in construction funding to build CoreWeave's 242,000-square-foot turnkey data center, according to Commercial Observer. According to CO sources, an undisclosed Brookfield...
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September 11, 2023 Virginia
Culpeper Town Council is debating whether to rezon a land on East Chandler Street to create a six-building, 4.3 million-square-foot data center facility and substation in Culpeper County, Virginia. The 116-acre lot is zoned Residential-2 following 15 years of planning for a 490-home project. Such...
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August 25, 2023 Virginia
A former coal mine in Wise County will be converted into an industrial park with data centers thanks to a $1.7 million grant from Virginia Energy. The discarded mine at the Elam Farm site in Southern Virginia's Wise County will receive funding from the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization...
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August 18, 2023 Vantage VA11
Vantage Data Centers' VA21 data center in Ashburn, Virginia, has reached completion. VA21 is the first data center currently under development on the 96MW VA2 campus of Vantage. The 18-acre VA2 campus will house three data centers with 800,000 square feet of space. Dominion Energy will provide...
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August 16, 2023 Northern Virginia
Leesburg's Loudoun County Council unanimously approved data center design criteria. Unlike Ashburn, Virginia's Leesburg has no data centers; however, this may change. Three rezoning petitions may allow data center development in town. One is in the Oaklawn neighborhood, one close to the former...
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July 10, 2023 Virginia
The Culpeper Town Planning Commission is contemplating rezoning additional land adjacent to the Peterson property for a possible data center campus. On the 116-acre Copper Ridge Data Center Campus, up to eight two-story data center buildings comprising 2.36 million square feet could be...
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June 28, 2023 Northern Virginia
Residents of Prince William County, Virginia, are attempting to sell their land to an unidentified data center developer. According to InsideNoVa, residents of Sanders Lane near Gainesville are attempting to sell their land to a data center developer. The residents appear to be attempting to...
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May 31, 2023 Virginia
Prince William County, Virginia, is considering the development of a new data center park. A developer has submitted designs for an 82-acre data center campus in Gainesville's Hillwood Camping Park. The 'Gardner Property' development could bring up to 1.8 million sq ft of data facilities and an...
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May 25, 2023 Northern Virginia
The Virginian county of Culpeper may soon see the construction of more than four million square feet of data centers. The Culpeper Town and County Councils have received rezoning requests that would enable the construction of approximately 17 buildings on two campuses on the town's border...
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May 15, 2023 Northern Virginia
A poll of Northern Virginia residents by the National Parks Conservation Association has found that the majority oppose the development of data centers near public land, including national parks. The survey polled 300 voters from several Northern Virginia jurisdictions. Of those polled, 77%...
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May 15, 2023 Virginia
Prospective purchasers and lessees can access a data center in Chesterfield County, Virginia. JLL is offering for lease or sale at 11751 Meadowville Lane in Chester, south of Richmond. The Virginia IT agency had been based there until it left last year. The 192,600 sq ft facility, which was...
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