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Iron Horse data center campus, 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.

3 events, February 3, 2026 to August 21, 2026. Also on the record, under the month each belongs to: 1 statement, 1 figure from another source and 4 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

  1. cancelled
  2. waiting on permits

Now: waiting on permits. A stage is the record's status after the entry that set it (the definitions).

2026 3 events

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

    cancelled

    400 acre data center campus withdrawn; originally planned 10 buildings, 3.9 million sq ft total [1]

  2. Also in February 2026: 1 statement, 1 figure from another source and 2 lines that are not events of their own

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

      Entry

      HHHunt developer planning 10 building data center campus on 400 acres [1]

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

      Decision · Hanover County (county)

      Planning officials recommended application be refused datacenterdynamics.com

    3. (said in the source itself)

      Statement · Sue Dibble, Hanover County supervisor

      Sue Dibble, Hanover supervisor, said site should be reserved for residential development Data Center Dynamics trade press

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

      Figure · Data Center Dynamics

      900 MW: Data center campus capacity claimed at 900MW Data Center Dynamics trade press

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

    waiting on permits

    Iron Horse data center proposal deferred in Hanover County [4]

  4. Also in June 2026: 1 line that is not an event of its own

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

      Entry

      430 acre data center tract rejected by local officials in Hanover County [2]

  5. (content date)

    Entry

    Hanover leaders recommended approval of the Iron Horse data center campus. [3]

  6. Also in August 2026: 1 line that is not an event of its own

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

      Decision · Hanover County (county)

      Hanover County leaders recommend approval of Iron Horse data center campus wric.com

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
iron-horse-data-center-campus-hanover-va
Status value
permitting
Events on the timeline
3
Under the months
6
Stage changes
2
Decisions
2
Statements
1
Figures
1
Entries and decisions under the months
4