Who owns Google Data Center?

Google Data Center is operated by Google LLC and ultimately owned by Alphabet Inc..

Has Google Data Center had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Google Data Center.

Where is Google Data Center located?

Google Data Center is in Loudoun County, VA.

Mapped (unverified)

Google Data Center

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.

Loudoun County, VA

Source: OpenStreetMap

Google Data Center is a mapped data center in Loudoun County, VA, operated by Google LLC and ultimately owned by Alphabet Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 140,634 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 18, 2026

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Est. capacity

~25-60 MW

Footprint

140,634 sq ft

Interconnection

~175 MW

Utility

Northern Virginia Elec Coop

Grid

PJM

Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

The Google Data Center is a mapped data center in Loudoun County, Virginia, run by Google LLC and owned through its parent, Alphabet Inc. Its reported footprint is 140,634 square feet. The site draws power from Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative inside the PJM grid.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Alphabet Inc.
Files as
Google LLC
This facility
Google Data Center

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA

Nearest substation

0.4 mi

Stonewall Energy Center · 230 kV

Transmission line

336 ft

230 kV line

Municipal water

Served

Loudoun Water - Central System

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~3.3M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~1.6M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~1.7M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 175 MW (interconnection capacity): 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 (estimated)

$3M to $7.3M/yr

An estimated ~25 to 60 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price. Estimated from the building footprint at 200 to 400 W/ft² (the typical range for modern data centers). A rough order-of-magnitude figure, not a metered or permitted capacity.

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 →

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow

PM2.5

Moderate

Good

PM10

Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Northern Virginia), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023

Median household income

$208K

People of color

46%

Below poverty

Tract population

8,609

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, Belmont Station Elementary in Ashburn, is 1.5 mi from this site (711 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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