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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Skipwith Road Campus (LYH03).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Boydton · Mecklenburg County · Virginia
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- permitted
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 25 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001004
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.
- Land area
- 369 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced
- 2023
What the source record says
Site plans depict six buildings of equal size (LYH03-01 through -08 building series referenced in reporting). Filed as an addition to Microsoft's Southern Virginia Regional Network Group due to capacity growth. USACE public notice establishes this as a real, government-docketed wetlands/streams impact permit application, not mere rumor. Mecklenburg County also has separate/adjacent Microsoft filings for a 132-acre Tunstall Road site and a 259-acre Lakeside Commerce Park parcel and a reported 490-acre expansion adjacent to 'AVC17' — those may represent additional distinct sites but could not be individually confirmed to primary-source case numbers this session; flagged for a future pass rather than included speculatively. Coordinates are Boydton, VA town-centroid (approximate); exact Skipwith/Butler Farm Road intersection not independently geocoded this session.
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
- 2022 · source-reported permitted
permitted per USACE Norfolk District Public Notice NAO-2022-02394 / VMRC# 22-V2715, Microsoft Data Center, Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- USACE Norfolk District Public Notice NAO-2022-02394 / VMRC# 22-V2715, Microsoft Data Center, Mecklenburg County, Virginia · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District
- Microsoft files for six-building data center campus in Virginia's Mecklenburg County · Data Center Dynamics
- Microsoft Submits Plans For a Six-Building Data Center Facility in Mecklenburg County, Virginia · Baxtel
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-skipwith-road-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. 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).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001004
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
- Boydton, VA · Mecklenburg (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported permitted
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2023
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2022 · source-reported permitted
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 369 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.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-25
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 · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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