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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Emerald Lakes Estates (Doug Fuller)
- Address and locality
- Chesapeake · Chesapeake (independent city) · Virginia
- Lifecycle status
- reported cancelled
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 26 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000562
What the source record says
22.6-acre parcel on west side of Centerville Turnpike, south of Etheridge Manor Boulevard, Great Bridge area of Chesapeake. Developer Doug Fuller (Emerald Lakes Estates) sought rezoning from agricultural to light industrial; proposed 350,000 sq ft, 35 ft tall, 24/7 staffed facility. City Council denied the rezoning request unanimously. Separately, in July 2026 the Chesapeake Planning Commission recommended a citywide data-center zoning ordinance/policy (conditional use in industrial districts + Fentress Airfield Overlay only) — this is a POLICY change, not a site-specific candidate, and is not included here. No other active Chesapeake DC site rezoning was found this session. Coordinates are approximate (Centerville Turnpike/Great Bridge area); exact parcel not geocoded from GIS this session. Chesapeake City Council denied the rezoning 7-0 on 2025-06-17 (Planning Commission had recommended denial 6-1). Recorded as a cancelled proposal.
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Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-06-17 · reported cancelled
cancelled per City of Chesapeake Department of Planning, Rezoning Case PLN-REZ-2025-002 (Etheridge Lakes Data Center)
Sources and attribution
- City of Chesapeake Department of Planning, Rezoning Case PLN-REZ-2025-002 (Etheridge Lakes Data Center) · City of Chesapeake Department of Planning
- Chesapeake City Council rejects massive data center · Virginia Business
- Chesapeake City Council rejects land rezoning proposal for Virginia data center · Data Center Dynamics
- City Planning Commission rejects Chesapeake data center · 13News Now
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- PLN-REZ-2025-002 Etheridge Lakes Data Center rezoning application (mirror) · WAVY-TV
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID emerald-lakes-etheridge-lakes-data-center-chesapeake-va. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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