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Lumos Networks

Lynchburg County, VA

Source: OpenStreetMap

Lumos Networks is a mapped data center in Lynchburg County, VA.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 12, 2026

Real parent
Operator
Utility
Appalachian Power Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

data center

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

  • Reported withdrawal15.7K gpd
    2021 · groundwater · matched by location (731 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal13K gpd
    2020 · groundwater · matched by location (731 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal16.6K gpd
    2019 · groundwater · matched by location (731 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal18.2K gpd
    2018 · groundwater · matched by location (731 m, low confidence) · source
  • Reported withdrawal42.6K gpd
    2010 · surface · matched by location (731 m, low confidence) · source

Location-matched records come from state withdrawal reporting, which redacts owner names in the public release. A nearby withdrawal point is circumstantial evidence — the distance and confidence shown are part of the claim.

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 →

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
25
O3
Good

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

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$42.3K
People of color
25%
Below poverty
22%
Tract population
628

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, Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle For Innovation in Lynchburg, is 0.6 mi from this site (531 students). 2 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

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.