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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- South Hill · Mecklenburg County · Virginia
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 25 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001005
What the source record says
A genuinely separate Microsoft campus filing: 132-acre site at 210 Tunstall Road (north of South Hill, between N. Mecklenburg Ave and I-85), internally referred to as the 'Hillcrest Data Center' (AVC09), part of Microsoft's Regional Network Group. Land acquired ~2020, zoning approved early 2021, three data center buildings + substation planned, build-out targeted ~2024. USACE Norfolk District docket NAO-2013-01922 'Hillcrest Data Center, Mecklenburg County' is the primary federal permit citation (case number is anomalous — likely a docket-numbering artifact reused from an earlier case series;
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 permitted
Sources and attribution
- NAO-2013-01922, Hillcrest Data Center, Mecklenburg County · USACE Norfolk District
- Microsoft files for permit to build data center campus in Mecklenburg County (named corroboration only, DCD 403-blocks fetch) · DatacenterDynamics
- Mecklenburg County parcel/GIS record (parcel OBJECTID 33037 / ParcelNumber 002) · Mecklenburg County GIS / Assessor
- datacentermap.com — Microsoft Hillcrest Data Center (AVC09)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-tunstall-road-hillcrest-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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