How to read this page. Every count comes from the records on this page and links to where it is counted. Nothing is published until a person reads its source, and a figure no source gives reads Not disclosed; nothing is estimated. A rating changes only when a person sets it.
The data center in Hanover County
Each row is one site with its stage, its latest dated entry and what its sources disclose. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed.
Drag with one finger to move the map, pinch to zoom. Tap a pin for the data center, a county for its rules
1 data center in Hanover County: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.
The outline is Hanover County's boundary from the U.S. Census Bureau. Tap a pin for that data center's facts and a link to its page.
What Hanover County has decided
1 body, 1 decision on the record
What the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.
Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own.
Hanover Countycounty
Planning officials recommended application be refused, reported February 3, 2026.
Power, water, jobs and tax, summed only where a data center disclosed the figure; what each facility is for; how each is cooled. Nothing here is estimated.
Power, water, jobs and tax
Figure
Disclosed total
Disclosed
Not disclosed
Basis
Power
Not disclosed
0
1
Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Water, stated per day
Not disclosed
0
1
Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Water, stated per year
Not disclosed
0
1
Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Permanent jobs
Not disclosed
0
1
Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Tax each year
Not disclosed
0
1
Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
By what the facilities are for
Use
Records
Power
Water
Jobs
Tax each year
Not disclosed
1
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
Not disclosed: power, water, jobs, tax each year
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
What the facilities are for
No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Hanover County is for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Hanover County is cooled.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Hanover County, Virginia", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/va/hanover-county, updated September 23, 2026.
Data Center Record, "Data center records in Hanover County, Virginia", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/va/hanover-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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