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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Iron Horse Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- WestDulles Properties
- Address and locality
- 10171 E. Patrick Henry Road · Hanover County · Virginia
- Official metro area
- Richmond, VA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 14 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001565
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.
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
Provider notes
Water. Applicant announced at the Aug 20, 2026 Planning Commission meeting a switch to closed-loop cooling to reduce daily water use. No volume was given.
Community. Most speakers opposed it over water, electricity and traffic. The Planning Commission recommended approval 5-2 on Aug 20, 2026, and the Board of Supervisors decision is pending.
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- Land area: The source note gives the acreage of the overall campus, and the data center occupies only part of it.
What the source record says
Zoning sought for data center facilities on 78 acres (rezoning from mixed use to limited industrial, plus a height waiver to 75 feet) within an overall 180-acre campus straddling the Hanover–Ashland line; the Ashland portion was approved by town council in 2024. LLCs tied to WestDulles own the campus properties. landAcres records the overall 180-acre campus, not the 78-acre rezoning request. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the cited street address.
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
- 2026-06-18 · source-reported proposed
Hanover Planning Commission voted unanimously in mid-June 2026 to defer consideration until July 16 at the developer's request. Latest iteration of a zoning application filed in early 2025, after a similar project on the site was rejected by supervisors the prior year.
Sources and attribution
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- One data center project pulled and another delayed in Hanover, as supervisors reinstitute equipment tax (archived) · Richmond BizSense
- Iron Horse data center proposal deferred in Hanover County · WWBT NBC12
- Latest Iron Horse data center proposal teed up for Hanover Planning Commission review · Richmond BizSense
- Iron Horse data center proposal gets planning commission's backing despite public opposition · WWBT 12 On Your Side
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID westdulles-iron-horse-hanover-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-001565
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
- 10171 E. Patrick Henry Road, VA · Hanover (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: WestDulles Properties
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026-06-18 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-14
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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