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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Boydton · Mecklenburg County · Virginia
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 25 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000963
What the source record says
This is the PARENT Microsoft Boydton campus — one of Microsoft's oldest and largest US data center campuses, hosting the Azure 'East US' region, first announced 2010 (~$499M initial investment) and expanded repeatedly through 2011/2013/2014/2015/2019 (cumulative >$2B investment). Distinct from the already-tracked microsoft-skipwith-road-campus-mecklenburg-va (a separate 2022 six-building permit). Located east of Highway 92 / west of Highway 608 (Ridge Road); addresses cited across sources include 101 Herbert Drive and 925 Ridge Rd, Boydton VA — sources differ on whether these are the same 175-
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
- 2026-07-17 · reported operational
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft Boydton datacenter fact sheet · Microsoft (local.microsoft.com)
- Microsoft Azure East US-Virginia, 101 Herbert Drive, Boydton VA · datacenters.com
- Microsoft Boydton VA Data Center — 175-acre site, 10 buildings, built 2013, $2B+ invested since 2010 · baxtel
- Microsoft files for another Virginia campus in Mecklenburg County (named corroboration only, DCD 403-blocks fetch) · DatacenterDynamics
- yourgv.com — Microsoft's $2B investment in Southern Virginia fulfills early vision
- VEDP press release — Governor McDonnell Announces Microsoft to Locate Major Data Center in Mecklenburg County
- VEDP case study — Microsoft Corporation's Expanding Virginia Footprint
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-boydton-bn-campus-mecklenburg-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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