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Google Chesterfield County data center

Google lists a data center at Chesterfield County, Virginia and says it is being built. It is being built; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 4 sources, 1 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

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
Google
as stated by the source
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

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast 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

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Google as stated by the source September 17, 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

  1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Appalachian Power plans the Daleville Area Transmission Improvements Project to connect Google to the grid, involving upgrading nearly 20 miles of transmission line with completion expected in late 2029 [4]

  2. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Google purchased the output of a 79 megawatt wind power plant in Botetourt County [4]

  3. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Google proposes three data center buildings of about 300,000 square feet each, three electric substations, a 28,000 square foot office building, and associated roads and parking at Botetourt Center [4]

  4. · Status: being built (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Google lists Google Chesterfield County data center at Chesterfield County, Virginia on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

The full Google Chesterfield County data center timeline, in order

4 corrections to this record

Every correction, with its reason

  1. · 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.

  2. · 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: cardinalnews.org 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.

  3. · 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: cardinalnews.org 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.

  4. · 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: cardinalnews.org 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.

Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.

What was said

Google and other tech companies voluntarily agree to pay for all new power delivery infrastructure upgrades required to service their data centers under the Ratepayer Protection Pledge
White House, Ratepayer Protection Pledge · September 16, 2026 · paraphrased · Cardinal News local outlet

Every statement about data centers in Virginia, by speaker

The site

Where in Chesterfield County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.

  • This record: Being built, 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
Chesterfield 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.

Keep going

The county Chesterfield County 1 project on the record. The state Data centers in Virginia Every Virginia project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

4 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

Who is building Google Chesterfield County data center?

Google is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does Google Chesterfield County data center say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Google Chesterfield County data center stand today?

It is being built; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, reported September 16, 2026: Appalachian Power plans the Daleville Area Transmission Improvements Project to connect Google to the grid, involving upgrading nearly 20 miles of transmission line with completion expected in late 2029 [4].

What has Chesterfield County decided about it?

No decision by Chesterfield County about data centers is on the record. The Chesterfield County page and the Virginia scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. Google: Data center locations, Google, September 14, 2026

Reporting

  1. Virginia's Chesterfield County approves rezoning for two data center projects - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, June 2, 2025, query feed
  2. Google reveals involvement with two more data center projects in Chesterfield - Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 29, 2025, query feed
  3. New details emerge about Botetourt grid upgrades for Google data center - Cardinal News, Cardinal News, September 16, 2026, local outlet

4 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Google Chesterfield County data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-chesterfield-county-data-center-va, last verified September 17, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page and under What happened.

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For researchers
Slug
google-chesterfield-county-data-center-va
Status value
under_construction
Stage
Being built
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/va/chesterfield-county
Coordinates
37.3764, -77.5039
Location precision
county
Location source
County seat (Chesterfield Court House), 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
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-09-17