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Meta Henrico Data Center

Meta lists a data center at Henrico, Virginia among the sites it operates. It is running, as reported September 7, 2026.

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

Last verified · 2 sources, 2 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
Meta
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 Meta as stated by the source 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

Jobs once it runs, also reported: 200 jobs, 2026 (VEDP: Meta created 200 new jobs in Virginia with the data center.) .

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. (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Meta lists Meta Henrico Data Center at Henrico, Virginia on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

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

    The Henrico Data Center campus was completed in 2023. [2]

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

    The first phase went online in August 2020. [2]

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

    Site work began in February 2018. [2]

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

    Meta announced a $1 billion additional investment in September 2018 for three new 500,000 square foot buildings. [2]

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

    In October 2017, Meta announced plans to invest $750 million initially. [2]

  7. · Status: running (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    In 2017, Meta began searching for a site for its eighth East Coast data center. [2]

The full Meta Henrico Data Center timeline, in order

9 corrections to this record

Every correction, with its reason

  1. · the site acres of a projects row

    The site read 970,000 acres. The source's figure was 970,000 square feet, a floor area, and the approval wrote it as acres. Returned to not disclosed, as it was before. The old and new text.

  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 (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: the tier the record already gives vedp.org. 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: the tier the record already gives vedp.org. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  5. · 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 tier the record already gives vedp.org. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  6. · 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 tier the record already gives vedp.org. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  7. · 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 tier the record already gives vedp.org. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  8. · 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 tier the record already gives vedp.org. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  9. · the kind of source of a history entry

    Tier after resolution (2026-09-21). The source on file is vedp.org, the publisher's own page. The item reached the record through Google News: Meta Henrico Data Center, which the record carries at tier 1, and the approve copied the feed's tier onto this row. The tier now comes from the outlet, which the record already carries at tier 2 on 1 row of monitoring_sources. DECISIONS section 7. The speaker, the claim, the date and the url are unchanged. The day's label corrections.

Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.

What was said

Rachel Peterson is Vice President for Data Center Strategy at Meta.
Rachel Peterson, Vice President for Data Center Strategy, Meta · September 7, 2026 · paraphrased · VEDP primary source

Every statement about data centers in Virginia, by speaker

The site

Where in Henrico is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Henrico, not a building, and the outline is Henrico 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
Henrico, Henrico County, Virginia
How exactly it is located
Town level, the center of the city
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 the center of its town.

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.

Permanent jobs

1 figure, 1 source
Not disclosedNot disclosed

No filing or developer document on the record states one.

200 jobsCompany

VEDP, Sep 7, 2026

Show each source's words
  • 200 jobs, VEDP: Meta created 200 new jobs in Virginia with the data center.

Keep going

The county Henrico County 2 projects 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 Meta Henrico 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 Meta Henrico Data Center?

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

Who will use Meta Henrico 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 Meta Henrico Data Center say it needs?

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

Where does Meta Henrico Data Center stand today?

It is running, as reported September 7, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 7, 2026: The Henrico Data Center campus was completed in 2023. [2]

What has Henrico or Henrico County decided about it?

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

What is still unknown about Meta Henrico 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

  1. Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet, Meta, September 14, 2026
  2. Meta Friends Virginia | VEDP - VEDP, VEDP, September 7, 2026

2 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Meta Henrico Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-henrico-data-center-va, last verified September 21, 2026.

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

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Slug
meta-henrico-data-center-va
Status value
operational
Stage
Running
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/va/henrico-county/henrico
Coordinates
37.4375205, -77.300333
Location precision
city
Location source
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
Coordinate source
tigerweb city centroid
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 14, 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
2026-09-21