How big is Google Prince William County data center?

Not disclosed. No source on file gives its capacity, its acreage or a count of buildings. What the record holds instead is under Disclosed.

Who is building Google Prince William County data center?

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

Who will use Google Prince William County data center?

Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.

How much power and water does Google Prince William 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 Prince William County data center stand today?

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

What has Prince William County decided about it?

Prince William County (rated restrictive): Prince William County Board of Supervisors approved changes ending by right data center development and shrinking Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District from 9,698 acres to 3,641 acres (reported September 23, 2026, source); and Prince William County: Supervisors approved 90 day transition period for properties within overlay, rejecting motion to eliminate grace period entirely. (reported September 23, 2026, source). 21 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

What is still unknown about Google Prince William County data center?

Not disclosed by any source on file: how much power it needs, how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is constructing it, how much land, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.

Running Built from one source

Google Prince William County data center

Google lists a data center at Prince William County, Virginia among the sites it operates. It is running; 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 September 17, 2026 · 1 source, 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

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	Last 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 was decided

Acts of Prince William County and the cities in it about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

Date	Who	Decision	Source
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Prince William County Board of Supervisors approved changes ending by right data center development and shrinking Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District from 9,698 acres to 3,641 acres	commercialobserver.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Supervisors approved 90 day transition period for properties within overlay, rejecting motion to eliminate grace period entirely.	patch.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to reduce Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District from 9,700 acres to 3,650 acres, eliminating by right development outside the overlay and requiring special use permits.	patch.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Property owners have 90 days to file certain data center related applications to remain in the reduced district	virginiabusiness.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District expected to shrink from about 9,700 acres to roughly 3,641 acres	virginiabusiness.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to eliminate automatic approvals and data center opportunity overlay district, requiring special use permits and public hearings for all future data center projects	nbcwashington.com

15 earlier decisions on the county's rows

Date	Who	Decision	Source
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Planning Commission set to consider 120 day grace period and 500 foot setback buffer proposal, with November public hearing targeted	wtop.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Future data center projects will require special use permit instead of by right development	wtop.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Amendment established 90 day grace period for data centers with approved site plans or already built or under construction	wtop.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted 8-0 to approve zoning text amendment ending by right data center development countywide	wtop.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	The Planning Commission is aiming for a November 2026 public hearing on setback proposal, with a board hearing targeted for January 2027	rappnews.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	The amendment includes a 90 day grace period for qualifying projects already built or being built in the county, as well as those already with a site plan that has passed the quality control threshold	rappnews.com
Reported September 23, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	The overlay district allows data centers to be built by right within its parameters; the countywide amendment will drastically shrink the size and scope of the overlay from its originally adopted form which dates back over a decade to May 2016	rappnews.com
Reported September 22, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Planning commission recommended a 120 day grace period for developers; supervisors were also considering eliminating the grace period entirely.	patch.com
Reported September 22, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Prince William County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on zoning changes to restrict by right data center development, shrinking the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District.	patch.com
September 22, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to shrink the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District	virginiabusiness.com
September 22, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted 8-0 on September 22, 2026 to end by right data center development countywide, requiring special use permits for future projects	rappnews.com
Reported September 18, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Several high profile projects in Prince William County were recently halted due to sustained community opposition	ground.news
Reported September 16, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Prince William County will vote to repeal zoning rules for one area of the county where data centers can be built without approval	nbcwashington.com
Reported August 25, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Prince William dissolved the resident Data Center Ordinance Advisory Group and adopted a different measurement approach with advisory standards	virginiamercury.com
Reported August 25, 2026	Prince William County restrictive	Prince William County's Data Center Ordinance Advisory Group raised noise standards by 6 decibels over consultant recommendations	virginiamercury.com

What happened

Read on September 14, 2026 · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

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

The full Google Prince William County data center timeline, in order

The site

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

This record: Running, 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: Prince William 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.

Comparisons

1 metric with more than one figure

Every figure on the record for the same thing, the record's own or the document's first, each with who gave it, its date and its basis.

Project footprint

1 figure, 1 source

1.95 acresReported

Data Center Dynamics, Sep 16, 2026

Show each source's words

1.95 acres, Data Center Dynamics: Project would impact 955 linear feet of stream channels and 1.95 acres of wetlands

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The county Prince William 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

7 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is Google Prince William County data center?: Not disclosed. No source on file gives its capacity, its acreage or a count of buildings. What the record holds instead is under Disclosed.
Who is building Google Prince William County data center?: Google is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
Who will use Google Prince William County data center?: Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.
How much power and water does Google Prince William 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 Prince William County data center stand today?: 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: Google lists Google Prince William County data center at Prince William County, Virginia on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
What has Prince William County decided about it?: Prince William County (rated restrictive): Prince William County Board of Supervisors approved changes ending by right data center development and shrinking Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District from 9,698 acres to 3,641 acres (reported September 23, 2026, source); and Prince William County: Supervisors approved 90 day transition period for properties within overlay, rejecting motion to eliminate grace period entirely. (reported September 23, 2026, source). 21 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
What is still unknown about Google Prince William County data center?: Not disclosed by any source on file: how much power it needs, how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is constructing it, how much land, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.

Sources

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

Primary documents

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

1 source on file.

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

Last verified September 17, 2026, first recorded September 14, 2026. Every correction is logged on the corrections page.

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Slug: google-prince-william-county-data-center-va
Status value: operational
Stage: Running
Tier: skeleton
Tags: skeleton
Place id: us/va/prince-william-county
Coordinates: 38.75142, -77.4764
Location precision: county
Location source: County seat (Manassas), 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: Restrictive
Published: 2026-09-14
Last verified: 2026-09-17