Franklin County data center proposal
A data center proposal in Franklin County was dropped. It is cancelled, since August 16, 2026.
How much power it needs, 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
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Crusoe
- as stated by the source [1]
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
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 | Not disclosed | |||
| 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 | Crusoe | as stated by the source | [1] datacenterdynamics.com | September 21, 2026 |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| 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.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
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· Status: stalled or cancelled (content date)
A data center proposal in Franklin County was dropped. [3]
The full Franklin County data center proposal timeline, in order
4 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the kind of source of a history entry
The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier: wdbj7.com is a news outlet (tiered by kind, the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.
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· the source url of a status history row
The source was a news.google.com wrapper url, which names no publisher and does not last. Resolved to the publisher's own page by the monitor's resolver on 2026-09-20 (docs/batch-va-record-fixes-0920.md, item 3). The outlet and the date on the row are unchanged. The old and new text.
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
The site
Where in Franklin County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Stalled or cancelled, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- 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
- Franklin County, Virginia
- How exactly it is located
- County level, the county seat
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Franklin County data center proposal?
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Crusoe is the developer, source. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Franklin County data center proposal say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Franklin County data center proposal stand today?
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It is cancelled, since August 16, 2026. The newest entry, August 16, 2026: A data center proposal in Franklin County was dropped. [3]
What has Franklin County decided about it?
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No decision by Franklin County about data centers is on the record. The Franklin County page and the Virginia scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Reporting
- Crusoe linked to potential data center project in Franklin County, Virginia, Data Center Dynamics, July 16, 2026, trade press
- Franklin County commissioners voted unanimously to approve rezoning two properties from agricultural to industrial use, clearing the way for data center developments., www.facebook.com, September 16, 2026, local outlet
- Data center proposal dropped in Franklin County - WDBJ7, WDBJ7, August 16, 2026, local outlet
3 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Franklin County data center proposal", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/franklin-county-data-center-proposal-va, last verified September 21, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Franklin County data center proposal", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/franklin-county-data-center-proposal-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
- franklin-county-data-center-proposal-va
- Status value
- cancelled
- Stage
- Stalled or cancelled
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/va/franklin-county
- Coordinates
- 36.9997, -79.8897
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Rocky Mount), Wikidata, placed at county level
- Coordinate source
- wikidata county seat
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 16, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last verified
- 2026-09-21