This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- Midlothian · Chesterfield County · Virginia
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 27 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000722
What the source record says
Codename Project Loch; land acquired via shell entity Aeris Investments LLC (~$29M for ~340 acres). Site: 750 Watkins Centre Pkwy (Watkins Centre South), west of Rt 288 and south of Rt 60, near Westchester Commons. Three data-center buildings planned, each with a dedicated on-site substation. Google stated in Aug 2025 it has no near-term plans to develop Loch. Capacity MW not disclosed. Virginia law bars per-company subsidy value disclosure, so the 30-year fixed tax agreement is recorded as a program label with no dollar value. Coordinates are an approximate site centroid (address-derived, not GPS-verified).
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-06-06 · reported proposed
Chesterfield Board of Supervisors approved rezoning of ~350 acres at 750 Watkins Centre Pkwy (Watkins Centre South) for data-center use; 30-year fixed tax agreement approved
- 2025-08-28 · reported proposed
Google publicly confirmed as operator of Project Loch (alongside Projects Peanut and Skye); Google stated Loch and Skye are not in near-term development plans
- 2026-05-14 · reported proposed
Army Corps of Engineers (Norfolk District) permit application filed for impacts to ~5 acres of wetlands and 2,828 ft of stream channels near Tomahawk Creek
- 2026-08-27 · reported permitted
Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors has approved the local rezoning for Project Loch (Watkins Centre South site); Supervisor Jessica Schneider is quoted confirming she voted to approve Loch. US Army Corps of Engineers Clean Water Act and Virginia Marine Resources Commission permits for wetlands impact remain pending as of 2026-06-22/06-26.
Sources and attribution
- Google files for data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia · Data Center Dynamics
- Chesterfield scores a Google trifecta: ties to 3 sites across the county · Richmond BizSense
- In Google, Chesterfield landed the Rolls-Royce of data center operators · Chesterfield County, VA
- Chesterfield County approves two data center developments · Greater Richmond Partnership
- Chesterfield EDA secures zoning approval for two data center projects · Richmond BizSense
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Google's $9B bet on a trio of Chesterfield data center campuses · VPM
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-loch-midlothian-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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