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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Chirisa Technology Park — Richmond (Chester).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- PowerHouse Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Chester · Chesterfield County · Virginia
- Official metro area
- Richmond, VA
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 120 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 8 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001133
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
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Energy. 300 MW secured via a new Meadowville Technology Park substation built in partnership with Dominion Energy; eventual park goal >1 GW.
Water. Chirisa 'direct-on-chip' liquid cooling (closed-loop, ~2x more power-efficient than air-cooled); site water sourced from a Chesterfield County reclaimed-water system. No MGD figure published.
Community. The Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors approved the Chirisa / Meadowville plans and cited a positive economic impact (redevelopment of the former Capital One campus); county-wide, data-center expansion is actively debated (residential-bill, water, and diesel-generator concerns; a Jan 2026 zoning ordinance now requires conditional-use approval for new data centers). No lawsuit or moratorium against this campus.
What the source record says
Chester, Chesterfield County — first phase of a Blue Owl / Chirisa / PowerHouse JV: initial 50 MW (2025) → 120 MW facility, with a ~1 GW eventual plan (in notes). $600M construction loan closed. Distinct parcel from Google's Midlothian (Chesterfield) campus. Coordinates are the Chester area centroid. The $600M is a construction loan (financing) and the $5B is the multi-site JV total - neither is this campus's capex -> investmentUsd omitted. 800-1,200 jobs projected over 5-7 years spanning construction and operations -> jobs honest-zero. Virginia law bars per-company data-center subsidy disclosure -> subsidy honest-zero. Joint venture with Chirisa Technology Parks and Blue Owl Real Estate.
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
- 2024 · source-reported under construction
Blue Owl / Chirisa / PowerHouse JV first phase: initial 50 MW by 2025 expanding to a 120 MW facility (1 GW eventual plan); $600M construction loan closed
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.
- Blue Owl, Chirisa Technology Parks and PowerHouse Data Centers announce first phase of $5 billion JV development partnership · PowerHouse Data Centers
- Chirisa Technology Parks and PowerHouse launch hyperscale campus in Chesterfield County · PR Newswire
- Richmond, Va.-area counties split on data centers · Government Technology
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID powerhouse-chirisa-chester-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
What this page records, grouped by topic, with the source's units and qualifications. Company-reported values stay labeled as company-reported. Related listings are shown separately.
Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001133
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.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Chester, VA · Chesterfield (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: PowerHouse Data Centers
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2024 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 120 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Dominion Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-08
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · 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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