How much power does Microsoft Boydton — Region 2 use?

Microsoft Boydton — Region 2 has a reported power capacity of 380 MW.

Has Microsoft Boydton — Region 2 had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Microsoft Boydton — Region 2.

Where is Microsoft Boydton — Region 2 located?

Microsoft Boydton — Region 2 is in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, VA.

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Microsoft Boydton — Region 2

Q: Who owns Microsoft Boydton — Region 2?

Microsoft Boydton — Region 2 is operated by Microsoft Data Center LLC and ultimately owned by Microsoft Corporation.

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Virginia?

Virginia reported $1B in Data Center Retail Sales and Use Tax Exemption (Va. Code § 58.1-609.3(18)) for FY2024 (Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) / Weldon Cooper Center). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

Boydton, Mecklenburg County, VA

Microsoft Boydton — Region 2 is a under construction data center in Mecklenburg County, VA, operated by Microsoft Data Center LLC and ultimately owned by Microsoft Corporation. DataCentersExposed has documented 380 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Power & your bill

380 MW of new demand — roughly a city of 304,000 homes.

Large new loads can raise transmission and capacity costs that land on every ratepayer. Residential power in VA is 17.4¢/kWh, up 13.7% year-over-year. (MW→homes is a rough ~800/MW planning figure.)

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Records / FOIA request

Public Records Request

To the records custodian for Mecklenburg County, VA,

Under the applicable public-records law, I request copies of the following records concerning the data-center project known as "Microsoft Boydton — Region 2":

1. The complete application, including any rezoning, special-use/conditional-use permit, or site-plan submissions and all exhibits.
2. All staff reports, analyses, and recommendations.
3. Any traffic, noise, water-use, stormwater, or utility/load studies submitted or commissioned.
4. Any development agreement, proffers, or tax-incentive/abatement agreements and their term sheets.
5. All correspondence between the applicant (or its agents) and county/city staff or elected officials regarding this project.
6. Notices of public hearings and proof of required public notice.

I request these in electronic form where available. If any portion is withheld, please cite the specific exemption. If fees will exceed $25, please contact me first.

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Real parent

Microsoft Corporation

Operator

Microsoft Data Center LLC

Power

380 MW

Utility

Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative

Grid

PJM

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Overview

Microsoft Boydton Region 2 is a hyperscale data center under construction in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, operated by Microsoft Data Center LLC and ultimately owned by Microsoft Corporation. The site reports a power capacity of 380 MW, drawing electricity from Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative within the PJM grid.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Microsoft Corporation
Files as
Microsoft Data Center LLC
This facility
Microsoft Boydton — Region 2

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA

Nearest substation

1.4 mi

Unknown114502 · 115 kV

Transmission line

1.4 mi

115 kV line

Municipal water

No service area

self-supplied or unmapped

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Statewide cost of this incentive

Virginia reported $1B in Data Center Retail Sales and Use Tax Exemption (Va. Code § 58.1-609.3(18)) for FY2024 (Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) / Weldon Cooper Center). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Virginia subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~7.1M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~3.5M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~3.6M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 380 MW (disclosed IT power): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.5 gal/kWh embedded in PJM grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

What this site costs the grid

source: PJM RPM auction reports

Dominion (Virginia / NC) · 2027/28 auction

$333 /MW-day

Peaked at $444/MW-day in 2025/26 — 1.65× the rest of PJM

PJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site sits in PJM's DOM pricing zone, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →

This site's capacity-market cost

$46.2M/yr

380 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price.

Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$49.3K

People of color

47%

Below poverty

23%

Tract population

2,694

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Mecklenburg County Middle in Baskerville, is 4.3 mi from this site (874 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.

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