Equinix Culpeper
Equinix lists 4 data centers at Culpeper, Virginia among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- 192 MW
- third party estimate [7]
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Equinix
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
- Where its power comes from
- Dominion Energy substation
- as stated by the source [7]
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | 192 MW | third party estimate | [7] starexponent.com | October 4, 2026 |
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Equinix | as stated by the source | October 4, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Dominion Energy substation | as stated by the source | [7] starexponent.com | October 4, 2026 |
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
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· Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
Equinix lists Equinix CU1, Equinix CU2, Equinix CU3, Equinix CU4 at Culpeper, Virginia on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]
What was said
Governor Spanberger launching AI Task Force to tackle risks from rapid AI development
The site
The pin is the site, as the EPA's facility record places it. Location from an EPA air permit.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Running, ringed
- data center
- Smaller pins: 35 other published records in Virginia
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- 18155 Technology DR, Culpeper, VA 22701, Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia [source]
- How exactly it is located
- Exact, the point of the EPA's facility record
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Amazon Data Services, DCA-51, 21 mi
- Equinix DC14, 35 mi
- Microsoft Blue Ridge (IAD11-12-13) Data Center, 41 mi
- Carmel Church Data Center, 45 mi
- Aligned Data Centers Ashburn, 47 mi
Questions about this project
5 questions answered from the record
How big is Equinix Culpeper?
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The record has one measure of its size: 192 MW (third party estimate, source). Its acreage is not disclosed.
Who is building Equinix Culpeper?
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Equinix is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Equinix Culpeper say it needs?
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Power: 192 MW (third party estimate, source). Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Equinix Culpeper stand today?
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It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: Equinix lists Equinix CU1, Equinix CU2, Equinix CU3, Equinix CU4 at Culpeper, Virginia on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]
What has Culpeper or Culpeper County decided about it?
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No decision by Culpeper or Culpeper County about data centers is on the record. The Culpeper County page and the Virginia scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Primary documents
- Equinix: United States and Canada colocation data centers, Equinix, September 14, 2026
- Equinix: Equinix CU1, Equinix, September 14, 2026
- Equinix: Equinix CU2, Equinix, September 14, 2026
- Equinix: Equinix CU3, Equinix, September 14, 2026
- Equinix: Equinix CU4, Equinix, September 14, 2026
- EPA ECHO detailed facility report: Equinix, LLC, Cu 1-4, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Reporting
- Spanberger seeks tighter controls on Virginia data centers - Culpeper Star-Exponent, Culpeper Star-Exponent, September 22, 2026, local outlet
7 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Equinix Culpeper", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/equinix-culpeper-va, last verified October 4, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Equinix Culpeper", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/equinix-culpeper-va. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- equinix-culpeper-va
- Status value
- operational
- Stage
- Running
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/va/culpeper-county/culpeper
- Coordinates
- 38.456463, -77.978209
- Location precision
- permit_point
- Location source
- https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110033142454
- Coordinate source
- https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110033142454
- Location source number
- [6]
- Location last verified
- October 4, 2026
- EPA registry id
- 110033142454
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- third_party_estimate
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- 192 MW, third party estimate
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last verified
- 2026-10-04