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DataCentersExposed
County data-center profile

Chesterfield County, Virginia

DataCentersExposed tracks 13 AI data centers in Chesterfield County, Virginia — 0 operating and 8 in the pipeline, drawing 525 MW of reported power demand, led by Alphabet Inc.. Its transparent data-center risk score is 0/100.

Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard

Facilities
13
Operating
0
Pipeline
8

Reporting by · Updated May 29, 2026

Risk breakdown
8Low
  • Project exposure · 14
  • Power demand · 0
  • Water draw · n/a
  • Land footprint · n/a
Overview

What's happening in Chesterfield County

Facilities here with disclosed capacity draw 525 MW from the local grid. Data-center load on this scale is the single biggest driver of recent capacity-market price increases — costs that flow through to every ratepayer in the service territory, not just the operators.

Alphabet Inc. has the largest presence in Chesterfield County. We resolve project codenames and shell LLCs back to the corporate parent wherever the public record allows, so the table below names who is actually behind each site.

Below: every tracked facility in the county, the active state legislation that names it or its county, and local news. Commissioner vote records arrive in a later release; the placeholders show where that accountability data will land.

13 facilities

Every tracked facility

FacilityOperatorStatusMW
Chesterfield Google Data Center
Chester
Alphabet Inc.Proposed200
Project Loch
Midlothian
Proposed
Project Loch (Google)
Midloththian
Alphabet Inc.Proposed
Project Peanut
Chester
Proposed
Project Skye (Google)
Moseley
Alphabet Inc.Proposed
Upper Magnolia Green East
Moseley
Proposed
Upper Magnolia Green West Tract A and Tract B
Moseley
Proposed
Digital Drive Hyperscale (Chesterfield)
Chester
PowerHouse Data CentersUnder construction300
Digital Fortress: RichmondMapped (unverified)25
PowerHouseMapped (unverified)
PowerHouse CTP-02Mapped (unverified)
Tract Data Center
Chester
Blocked
Virginia Information Technologies AgencyMapped (unverified)
Accountability

County commissioners

How the Chesterfield County board votes on each data-center matter — the rezonings, the abatements, the water permits — is built from public-meeting minutes and roll-call records. Know of a vote we should be tracking? Tell us.

Methodology & sources

The risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%). Water and land are not yet measured for our facilities, so those arcs render as "not yet measured" and the weights are renormalized over the factors we can source today — when the data lands, the score updates.

Every row carries a confidence level (high / medium / low) and a source URL. Spot an error? Tell us.