Data Center Tracker

The first of Google's three Chesterfield campuses to break ground. Google has not disclosed megawatt capacity, water use, cooling method, or permanent job counts for its Chesterfield sites. The county granted a 30-year data-center equipment tax rate of $0.24 per $100 for the Google sites.

• 2025-08-27Google announces a $9 billion Virginia investment and confirms it is behind three Chesterfield campuses
• 2025-11Site plan filed: three buildings totaling about 856,000 square feet
• 2025-11-07State air-permit application received by DEQ [source]
• 2026-08DEQ air-permit decision expected, which would make generator counts public

County rezoning is approved, but the federal Clean Water Act permit for wetlands impacts is still under Army Corps review. Plans call for five data-center buildings and three substations, with a target of coming online by 2028. A Dominion filing with the State Corporation Commission, approved in February 2026, confirms about 900 megawatts of planned data-center load in this area in three 300 MW phases through 2032. Some permit and LLC records associate the Skye and Loch code names with the opposite sites; we follow our published reporting here.

• 2025-06Board of Supervisors approves rezoning for Google's western campuses
• 2026-05-19Federal permit filings reveal impacts to more than 20 acres of wetlands and roughly 8,000 feet of streams
• 2026-06-11U.S. Army Corps of Engineers public comment period closes
• 2026-06-30Army Corps confirms the wetlands permit (NAO-2026-00282) is still under review

The owner argued the roughly 90-acre project had vested rights under the old by-right industrial zoning and, after the appeal was denied, was weighing a circuit court challenge.

• 2026-01-01Countywide zoning change takes effect: new data centers require a conditional use permit, with no grace period
• 2026-06-03Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously upholds the ruling that the project needs a conditional use permit; about a dozen residents spoke against it

Sourcing on this one is thin: the appeal and hearing date come from regional business-press reporting compiled in our research, and the outcome of the May 2026 hearing is not yet documented. We will update this entry as the record firms up.

• 2026-03Appeal filed against the county's ruling that the project needs a conditional use permit; a Board of Zoning Appeals hearing was scheduled for May 2026

300 megawatts secured from the Meadowville substation, which Dominion is building out. Plans include direct-to-chip liquid cooling and a reclaimed-water partnership with the county.

• 2024-09-26Joint venture announces a hyperscale campus: five AI-ready facilities, 600,000-plus square feet, more than $2 billion
• 2026First facility targeted to open, with the full campus planned by 2028

The plan called for up to 11 data centers on roughly 740 acres. Any refiling now falls under the county's conditional-use-permit requirement that took effect January 1, 2026.

• 2025-06-17Planning Commission unanimously recommends denial after about five hours of mostly opposed public comment
• 2025-07-02Tract withdraws the application and signals it intends to refile

The least publicly detailed of the three Google campuses. State and federal water-permit applications for the western campuses were still pending as of June 2026, per permit filings compiled in our research. Google has not disclosed megawatts, water use, or job counts. Code-name caution: see Project Skye.

• 2025-02County Economic Development Authority files the rezoning request
• 2025-06Board of Supervisors approves rezoning, with a 150-foot building height limit