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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Etheridge Lakes Data Center (Great Bridge).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Emerald Lakes Estates (Doug Fuller)
- Address and locality
- Chesapeake · Chesapeake (independent city) · Virginia
- Official metro area
- Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC
- Source-reported status
- cancelled
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 26 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000562
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Dominion Energy Virginia
- Land area
- 22.6 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
Provider notes
Community. Chesapeake City Council denied the rezoning; project did not proceed.
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.
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
- 2025-06-17 · source-reported cancelled
cancelled per City of Chesapeake Department of Planning, Rezoning Case PLN-REZ-2025-002 (Etheridge Lakes Data Center)
Sources and attribution
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- 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 1.34.1, 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. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000562
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- Chesapeake, VA · Chesapeake (independent city) (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Emerald Lakes Estates (Doug Fuller)
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported cancelled
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2025-06-17 · source-reported cancelled
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 22.6 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Dominion Energy Virginia
Utility as named by the provider.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: opposed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-26
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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