Google Chesterfield County data center, in order
What happened with this project, oldest first: the stages it reached, what the county and its cities decided, and every dated step on the record. Each entry links its source.
1 event, September 14, 2026 to September 14, 2026. Also on the record, under the month each belongs to: 1 statement and 3 lines that are not events of their own. The facts, newest first: the record; the place: Virginia.
A plain date is the day it happened, as the source states it, or as the line's own sentence states it ("voted on July 6"), which is where the line sits even when it was filed later. "Reported" and a date is the day a source published a line that carries no date of its own. Those lines, and lines that describe rather than report an act, sit under their month rather than on the timeline, with what was said and the figures other sources gave. Every timeline on the site reads its lines by this one rule. How dates are read.
Stages
2026 1 event
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(the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
being built
Google lists Google Chesterfield County data center at Chesterfield County, Virginia on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
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Also in September 2026: 1 statement and 3 lines that are not events of their own
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Entry
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]
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Entry
Google purchased the output of a 79 megawatt wind power plant in Botetourt County [4]
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Entry
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]
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(said in the source itself)
Statement · White House, Ratepayer Protection Pledge
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 Cardinal News local outlet
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On the timeline: a stage change; an entry that reports an act on the day the source or its own sentence gives; and a decision, a published scorecard event on a row at or under the record's county, that reports an act. Under the months: a statement that names this record, a figure another source gave about it, matched by place and developer, an entry dated only by the day its source was published, and an entry or a decision that describes rather than reports an act. Each is on the record in its own right and keeps its own link.
For researchers
- Slug
- google-chesterfield-county-data-center-va
- Status value
- under_construction
- Events on the timeline
- 1
- Under the months
- 4
- Stage changes
- 1
- Decisions
- 0
- Statements
- 1
- Figures
- 0
- Entries and decisions under the months
- 3