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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

Overview

source: link

data center

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
0.3 mi
Unknown147466
Transmission line
0.8 mi
line
Municipal water
Served
Lynchburg, City Of

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.

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.

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