Virginia index · last changed 1 November 2026
Selected source-linked records are published below. This is not a complete inventory of Virginia data centers.
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151 licensed rows · 66 source localities · 5 map targets
The state outline is adapted from the U.S. Census Bureau 2025 cartographic boundary file. Facility coordinates are adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Outline and markers use one geographic projection before any explicitly disclosed readability offset. Exact singleton source anchors are never moved. A one-kilometre boundary tolerance prevents the simplified 1:20,000,000 outline from hiding legitimate border-area source points; farther conflicts are disclosed, not clamped. DataCenterData groups source-reported city coordinates only within a bounded map radius; the outline does not validate a facility record. 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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Virginia evidence at a glance
Selected public evidence, not a statewide census. Each row shows whether it is independently source-linked, attributed, or unresolved; licensed leads remain separate.
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3 campus records · 9 project records · 2 operating facility records · 3 building records. Names are as they appear on each record page.
| Record / roles | Status | Capacity / scale | Primary evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Data Center Campus — Botetourt Center at Greenfield | approvedcampus | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Botetourt County Google Data Center project page →Gov. record |
| EdgeCore Shannon Hill Data Center Project | proposedproject | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Louisa County Sale of Shannon Hill Regional Business Park →Gov. record |
| Solis Arx / Fluidstack Progress Park Project | proposedproject | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Solis Arx/Fluidstack — Progress Park project page →Gov. record |
| Pairmont Data Center Campus | proposedproject | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Spotsylvania County Planning Department March 2026 status report →Gov. record |
| Massaponax Tech Campus | proposedproject | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Spotsylvania County Planning Department March 2026 status report →Gov. record |
| Thornburg Industrial Park 2 | proposedproject | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Spotsylvania County Planning Department March 2026 status report →Gov. record |
| Mineral Gap Data Center | operatingoperating facility | UnknownNo independently supported figure | Data Centers — Wise County Economic Development →Gov. record |
| Google Bermuda Hundred Data Center Campus | constructioncampus · Chesterfield County data-center project status table as of July 2026, Peanut LLC row | UnknownNo independently supported figureNo selected county record states critical-IT, utility-request, utility-service, generation, gross-facility, company-design or measured-load MW. The county's 6.000 MGD maximum public water use for this row is water, not IT load, and is not published as capacity. | Chesterfield County Data Centers — Project Status as of July 2026 →Gov. record |
| Google Upper Magnolia Green Data Center Project | approvedproject · Chesterfield County data-center project status table as of July 2026, Upper Magnolia Green row | UnknownNo independently supported figureNo selected county record states critical-IT or other MW. Tract A acreage is described site area, not capacity. The county's 1.755 MGD maximum public water use is water, not IT load. | Chesterfield County Data Centers — Project Status as of July 2026 →Gov. record |
| Google Watkins Centre Data Center Project | approvedproject · Chesterfield County data-center project status table as of July 2026, Watkins Centre row | UnknownNo independently supported figureNo selected county record states critical-IT or other MW. The 349.97-acre figure is rezoning site area, not capacity. The county's 0.850 MGD maximum public water use is water, not IT load. | Chesterfield County Data Centers — Project Status as of July 2026 →Gov. record |
| 11751 Meadowville LLC | unknownbuilding · Chesterfield County data-center project status table as of July 2026, 11751 Meadowville LLC row | UnknownNo independently supported figureNo selected county record states critical-IT or other MW. The county's 0.626 MGD figure is stated maximum water usage, not measured consumption or capacity. | Chesterfield County Data Centers — Project Status as of July 2026 →Gov. record |
| Tradeport 95 Data Center Project | proposedproject · Chesterfield County data-center project status table as of July 2026, Tradeport 95 row | UnknownNo independently supported figureThe county table states no MW figure and lists maximum water usage as not specified. | Chesterfield County Data Centers — Project Status as of July 2026 →Gov. record |
| Google data center, Prince William County | operatingUnresolved group · excluded from verified counts | UnknownNo independently supported figureNo capacity is stated by the operator. A third-party modelled estimate is not used. | Google Data Centers — Virginia →Company |
| EdgeCore AS01 | unknownbuilding | UnknownNo independently supported figureEdgeCore publishes a combined figure for AS01 and AS02. The reviewed evidence does not allocate it between the buildings. | Loudoun County — EdgeCore AS01 permit →Gov. record |
| EdgeCore AS02 | unknownbuilding | UnknownNo independently supported figureEdgeCore publishes a combined figure for AS01 and AS02. The reviewed evidence does not allocate it between the buildings. | Loudoun County — EdgeCore AS02 permit →Gov. record |
| Pacific Corporate Park (PowerHouse Pacific) | unknowncampus | UnknownNo independently supported figureNo power capacity is established by this identity review. | Loudoun County — Pacific Corporate Park site plan →Gov. record |
| PowerHouse Arcola | unknownproject | UnknownNo independently supported figureNo capacity is assigned by this identity review. | Loudoun County — Powerhouse Arcola plat →Gov. record |
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This is still not a list of every data center in the state.
Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.
State research audit window ended 23 September 2026. Individual records and claims below show their own evidence dates and may be newer.
Next scheduled coverage review: 17 December 2026.
12 independently source-linked project/campus records; 4 independently source-linked facility/building records; 1 attributed or unresolved row. These counts use different units and must not be added together.
These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.
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Licensed and operator listings, reviewed records, answers and local policy for each place. Listings overlap and are not added; a place without a line here has no published local evidence.
No local evidence answer, reviewed record or local policy record is published for Ashburn, Boydton, Bristow, Chester, Culpeper, Gainesville, Leesburg, Manassas, Petersburg, Remington, Ruther Glen. Their listings above are source listings to investigate. No statewide evidence answer is published for Virginia either; statewide and utility-territory rules are under Policy tracker below.
5 Virginia answers are not tied to a published record, so they are not placed here: Virginia answers.
Policy tracker
60 sourced records are associated with this state context. They are grouped below as current, pending and nonbinding, and history, and each card shows its relevant date. These are not facility counts and do not cover every locality.
Recorded as in effect on the dataset date. This does not mean every project in a represented state is restricted or approved.
Enacted legislation or regulation
In effect · Virginia · State
Effective: 18 September 2026
Issuing authority: Governor of Virginia
Virginia Executive Order 22, signed on 18 September 2026 and effective on signing, launches a Data Center Accountability Framework.
Reporting or resource-use requirement
In effect · Virginia · State
Effective: 9 September 2026
Issuing authority: State Water Control Board (Virginia Department of Environmental Quality)
Virginia’s State Water Control Board amended its Water Withdrawal Reporting regulation to carry out 2026 Acts chapters 623 and 896 (HB 496 and SB 553).
Enacted legislation or regulation
In effect · Virginia · State
Effective: 1 July 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
The 2026 Special Session I budget (HB 30, Item 3-5.24) imposes a Data Center Electricity Consumption Tax of $0.011 per kWh on all electricity consumed at each data center, beginning 1 July 2026 and applying before 1 July 2028.
Enacted legislation or regulation
In effect · Virginia · State
Effective: 1 July 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Code section 10.1-1322.6, added by 2026 Acts chapter 397 (House Bill 507), requires that any Department of Environmental Quality air permit for a data center applied for on or after 1 July 2026 set engine-generator emission limits no higher than those of a Tier 4 equivalent gen-set, defined as one with selective catalytic reduction, a diesel oxidation catalyst and a diesel particulate filter or equivalents.
Enacted legislation or regulation
In effect · Dominion Energy Virginia service territory, Virginia · Utility territory
Effective: 1 July 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion Energy Virginia)
Dominion Energy Virginia's filed tariff includes a consumption-tax provision stating that, under the 2026 state budget, it will collect and remit a $0.011 per kWh Data Center Electricity Consumption Tax on electricity used by data center operators, beginning with September 2026 billing and applying to 1 July 2026 through 30 June 2028.
Enacted legislation or regulation
In effect · Appalachian Power service territory, Virginia · Utility territory
Effective: 1 January 2025
Issuing authority: Appalachian Power Company (tariff filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission)
Appalachian Power's Virginia Economic Development Rider, a demand-charge discount for qualifying new or expanded commercial and industrial load, bars customers with primarily portable or extractive load, naming cryptocurrency mining and mobile containers or units for server farms or mobile data centers, from applying after 1 February 2024.
Permanent restriction or prohibition · Fairfax County only (local rule)
In effect · Fairfax County, Virginia · Local
Effective: 11 September 2024
Issuing authority: Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
Fairfax County's 2024 zoning amendment tightened where and how data centers may be built: in some industrial districts they need a special exception instead of being permitted by right, they are no longer allowed in the PRC district, and they require a special exception in PDC and PTC districts.
Incentive or explicitly supportive policy
In effect · Virginia · State
Effective: 1 July 2010
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Code section 58.1-609.3, subdivision 18, provides a sales-and-use tax exemption for specified computer equipment and enabling software used in a qualifying data center.
Reporting or resource-use requirement
In effect · Virginia · State
Last checked: 3 November 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia's 2026 Acts chapter 591 directs the Department of Energy to study and promote beneficial use of waste heat from data centers, convene a work group of industry, local government, utility and other stakeholders, and report findings and legislative proposals to the House Labor and Commerce and Senate Commerce and Labor committees by 1 September 2026.
Enacted legislation or regulation
In effect · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
The 2026 Special Session I budget (HB 30, Item 3-5.18) directs that data center fixtures classified as real estate be assessed at one hundred percent of fair market value as determined by the cost approach required by Code of Virginia section 58.1-3295.3.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (8 October 2026)
Enacted legislation or regulation
In effect · Virginia · State
Last checked: 3 November 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia law sets how localities value data center fixtures that are taxed as real estate: they must be assessed using the cost approach, meaning the cost to reproduce or replace them less depreciation.
Incentive or explicitly supportive policy
In effect · Virginia · State
Last checked: 3 November 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia law places computer equipment and peripherals used in a data center in their own class for local tangible personal property tax.
Adopted measures with unverified effect, adopted future measures, open proceedings, proposals, drafts and nonbinding context stay separate from current rules.
Legislation introduced (any outcome) · Suffolk only (local rule)
Proposed · City of Suffolk, Virginia · Local
Source document: 21 October 2026
Issuing authority: Suffolk City Council
A City of Suffolk council packet prepared for the 21 October 2026 City Council regular session presents a public hearing on Ordinance Text Amendment OTA2026-008.
Legislation introduced (any outcome) · Loudoun County only (local rule)
Proposed · Loudoun County, Virginia · Local
Source document: 20 October 2026
Issuing authority: Loudoun County Board of Supervisors
On 15 September 2026 a majority of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted for future consideration of a resolution that, if approved, would pause the Board's action on data center and electrical substation applications that require legislative approval for up to 12 months.
Reporting or resource-use requirement
Informational—not binding · Virginia · State
Source document: 9 December 2024
Issuing authority: Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission
JLARC’s 2024 study of the data center industry in Virginia, authorized by the Commission on 11 December 2023, found that data centers bring economic benefits mostly during construction, that unconstrained data center demand could double Virginia’s power demand within ten years, and that data centers are currently paying their full cost of service, though growing demand is likely to raise costs for other customers.
Reporting or resource-use requirement
Informational—not binding · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Virginia DEQ revised its guidance memo APG-576 for writing air permits for diesel engine-generator sets.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 1132 of 2026 would authorize a locality that collects real or personal property taxes on data center property to create a local residential renewable energy incentive program, directing 15 percent of new data center revenue to residential solar and battery storage and 15 percent to pro rata vehicle personal property tax reimbursements, with penalties for misuse.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (12 February 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 1515 of 2026 would prohibit a locality from giving final approval to any rezoning, special exception, special use permit, site plan or plan of development for siting a new data center until the earlier of the fulfilment of all pending data center requests for interconnection to electric distribution service or 1 July 2028.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (13 September 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 503 of 2026 would bar Commission-approved rates from including utility costs that are substantially related to serving data center customers with a peak demand of 100 megawatts or more and would not have been incurred but for their demand, unless the rates are designed to recover those costs substantially from data center customers.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (8 June 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 591 of 2026 would declare it Commonwealth policy to encourage responsible data center operation while supporting grid reliability, affordability and renewable deployment, including coordination with grid operators, demand response incentives, data centers paying their share of infrastructure investments and reporting of water and aggregated energy use.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (28 July 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 607 of 2026 would direct the Department of Environmental Quality to conduct a three-year study modelling aggregate air pollution in areas with a large volume of data centers, with recommendations on minor air permits for data center generators and air-quality monitoring.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (11 September 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 641 of 2026 would create a data center land preservation tax of $3 per square foot of each data center facility footprint and direct at least $250 million of its revenue to land protection and preservation purposes.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (7 July 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 336 of 2026 would direct the State Corporation Commission to evaluate the impact of requiring data centers to limit the use of Tier 2 generators and prioritize Tier 4 equivalent or better generators, and to report its findings to legislative committees.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (2 July 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 393 of 2026 would create a data center land preservation tax of $3 per square foot of each data center facility footprint and direct at least $250 million of its revenue to land protection and preservation purposes.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (7 June 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 417 of 2026 would require data center operators applying for Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund payments to use reclaimed water for water-dependent cooling, rising from 60 percent beginning 1 July 2027 to 100 percent on and after 1 July 2031.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (28 July 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 466 of 2026 would prohibit recovering from any other customer the costs of constructing or extending electric distribution infrastructure that primarily serves the load of a data center, including associated land acquisition.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (13 April 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 521 of 2026 would require new construction or substantial expansion of a data center to include a rainwater harvesting system capturing runoff from at least 30 percent of the total roof area and to use the harvested water for non-potable needs, including irrigation or heat dissipation.
Read the sourced record · Primary source · Archived copy (10 October 2026)
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Proposed · Virginia · State
Last checked: 23 September 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 93 of 2026 would provide that the data center computer equipment sales and use tax exemption does not apply to a data center operator or its tenants if any tenant is a bank, and would make banks’ computer equipment used in a data center taxable personal property for banks subject to the bank franchise tax.
Expired, repealed, vetoed, failed, blocked, superseded and completed measures remain visible without being presented as current.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 1101 of 2026 would have required the Department of Education, with the Department of Taxation, to revise the local composite index school funding formula to count local revenue generated by data centers, including real property and business personal property taxes attributable to their operation, subject to later General Assembly approval.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 154 of 2026 would have directed the Department of Environmental Quality to require each data center that operates an emergency generation unit to report on a publicly accessible website, within 24 hours, the times when that unit will be in operation.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 1984 of 2025 would have allowed local land use approval for siting a data center only in areas at least one-quarter mile from federal, state or local parks, schools, and property zoned or used for residential use.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2026 of 2025 would have required a locality whose zoning ordinance addresses data centers to review and amend it to designate data centers as industrial uses, review by-right locations and minimum requirements, identify areas suited to data centers, address data center noise and require mitigation commitments.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2028 of 2025 would have entitled a school board whose division has a public school within three miles of a data center receiving its certificate of occupancy after 1 July 2025 to a one-time fee of $250,000 from the data center owner.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2101 of 2025 would have directed the State Corporation Commission to determine whether current cost allocation requires customers that are not data centers to unreasonably subsidize data center customers and, if so, to adopt rules to eliminate or minimize the subsidy.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2377 of 2025 would have required every locality to include in its comprehensive plan provisions prioritizing and evaluating cooling methods that minimize water use, particularly when approving or siting data centers or similar land uses, and to consider such alternatives before approving water-reliant cooling.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2422 of 2025 would have required electric utilities and water or sewer utilities to include a separate customer classification for data centers when showing that their rates contain reasonable customer classifications.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2428 of 2025 would have provided that, for the separate local tangible personal property tax classification of computer equipment and peripherals used in a data center, a data center includes facilities housing digital asset mining systems.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2578 of 2025 would have conditioned eligibility for the data center sales and use tax exemption on clean-energy purchases, efficiency investments and lower-emission backup generators, and directed studies of non-diesel generation and data center waste-heat reuse.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2684 of 2025 would have directed Dominion Energy Virginia (a Phase II Utility) to file every two years a plan addressing the risk that generation and transmission costs of serving new data center customers are stranded with other customers.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2685 of 2025 would have made the data center computer equipment sales and use tax exemption unavailable, between 1 July 2025 and 1 July 2030, for equipment used in a data center constructed after 1 July 2025 in Planning District 8.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2712 of 2025 would have allowed a locality considering a data center land use application to require and consider water use estimates, sound modeling studies and power load demand estimates, and to set and enforce maximum sound levels for operating data centers.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 2715 of 2025 would have made data center operators eligible for the sales and use tax exemption only if building service employees at the data center were paid at least a standard rate, with audits and revocation after three violations.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 511 of 2026 would have required a locality whose zoning ordinance addresses data centers to review and amend that ordinance to designate data centers as industrial uses, review by-right locations and minimum requirements, identify areas suited to data center development, address data center noise and require mitigation commitments; the Session Summary states it was incorporated into HB 153.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 589 of 2026 would have required any water user that provides water to a data center and must register withdrawal and use data with the State Water Control Board to report, monthly or as often as practicable, the total volume of water, including reclaimed water, provided to that data center.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 658 of 2026 would have directed the State Corporation Commission to determine whether transmission cost allocation for Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power, and generation and distribution cost allocation for Dominion Energy, require customers that are not data centers to unreasonably subsidize the costs of serving data center customers.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 784 of 2026 would have required the Department of Taxation to publish an annual report naming each data center operator receiving the retail sales and use tax exemption, with the amount claimed, whether the job and investment goals in its memorandum of understanding were met, and its employment and wage levels.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 824 of 2026 would have directed the Department of Energy to convene a work group to study the cost and feasibility of energy generation by data centers, its use as backup or primary generation, and energy storage by data centers, and to report its findings to the General Assembly.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 897 of 2026 would have conditioned eligibility for the existing data center sales and use tax exemption on limits to co-located carbon-dioxide-emitting generation, clean-energy procurement, non-emitting backup power and efficiency investments.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia House Bill 961 of 2026 would have limited the retail sales and use tax exemption for data center computer equipment or enabling software to purchases or leases made before a data center starts operations or as part of an energy-efficiency-improving refresh cycle of an existing data center.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 1045 of 2025 would have allowed local approval of a land use application for siting a data center only if the data center is on property classified by local ordinance for industrial use, for applications submitted on or after 1 July 2025.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 1046 of 2025 would have conditioned local land use approval for siting a data center on resident notice and neighborhood meetings, sound mitigation to keep levels at or below a baseline, five years of post-occupancy noise studies, and a public website announcing backup generator operating times.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 1196 of 2025 would have made data center operators eligible for the sales and use tax exemption only if their facilities met a power usage effectiveness score of 1.2 or less (or an equivalent efficiency level) and they would procure carbon-free renewable energy equal to 90 percent of their electricity requirements.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 1243 of 2025 would have prohibited recovering from any other customer the costs of constructing or extending electric distribution infrastructure that primarily serves the load of a data center.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 1358 of 2025 would have required the State Corporation Commission to approve certain proposed 500-kilovolt transmission lines as underground pilot projects, with localities paying part of unrecovered costs and the remainder assigned to the utility’s data center customers.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 1425 of 2025 would have ended the data center retail sales and use tax exemption, and any extensions of it, on and after 1 July 2025 and directed the resulting revenue to school, road and bridge construction.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 334 of 2026 would have required a locality disposing of permanent easements or rights-of-way for new electric transmission or distribution facilities over 69 kilovolts, data center operations or supporting facilities over 69 kilovolts, or commercial or industrial facilities served through such facilities to hold a public hearing first that discloses the proposed use, anticipated community and environmental impacts and alternative locations considered.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 465 of 2026 would have made data center operators eligible for the sales and use tax exemption only if their facilities met a power usage effectiveness score of 1.2 or less (or an equivalent efficiency level for co-located buildings) and they would procure carbon-free renewable energy equal to 90 percent of their electricity requirements.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 14 March 2026
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 552 of 2026 would have required a locality, before approving a rezoning, special exception or special use permit for the siting or major expansion of a large data center, to hold public hearings and require an applicant site assessment, which the Department of Environmental Quality would review against standards it was to develop for noise, light, water, air emissions, traffic and proximity impacts, with notices of violation, civil penalties and possible revocation of approval.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 899 of 2025 would have authorized a locality to include zoning provisions requiring proposed data center developments to submit water use estimates and to consider water use in rezoning and special use permit decisions for data centers.
Legislation introduced (any outcome)
Did not pass · Virginia · State
Ended: 22 February 2025
Issuing authority: Virginia General Assembly
Virginia Senate Bill 960 of 2025 would have directed the State Corporation Commission to determine whether current cost allocation requires customers that are not data centers to unreasonably subsidize data center customers and, if so, to adopt rules to eliminate or minimize the subsidy.
Reporting or resource-use requirement · Listed coverage: part of Virginia
In effect · PJM region (multistate) · Regional grid
Effective: 12 October 2026
Issuing authority: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
On 9 October 2026 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted, effective 12 October 2026, PJM's definition of a Large Load at a cumulative peak of 50 MW and a Large Load Registry that requires load-serving entities to report on the Large Loads they serve, which the order says covers all such loads regardless of in-service date.
Review dates: the 60 Virginia records were last checked 23 September 2026 to 3 November 2026. 18 scheduled reviews are overdue as of the tracker date 3 November 2026: Executive Order 22: Virginia Data Center Accountability Framework, Data Center Electricity Consumption Tax (2026 Special Session I budget, Item 3-5.24), Dominion tariff sheet collecting the Data Center Electricity Consumption Tax, Fairfax County: data center zoning amendment (ZO 112.1-2024-9), Data center fixtures at 100 percent of cost-approach value (2026 Special Session I budget, Item 3-5.18), DEQ guidance APG-576: presumptive BACT for data center diesel generators (last checked 23 September 2026, review due 23 October 2026); HB 1132 (2026): local use of data center tax revenue for residential energy programs (carried over), HB 1515 (2026): proposed temporary pause on local data center approvals (carried over), HB 503 (2026): recovering data-center-driven utility costs from data center customers (carried over), HB 591 (2026): statement of Commonwealth policy on data centers (carried over), HB 607 (2026): DEQ study of aggregate air pollution from data center generators (carried over), HB 641 (2026): data center land preservation tax (carried over), SB 336 (2026): SCC evaluation of data center generator tiers (carried over), SB 393 (2026): data center land preservation tax (carried over), SB 417 (2026): reclaimed-water condition for Cloud Computing Cluster grants (carried over), SB 466 (2026): distribution infrastructure costs for data centers (carried over), SB 521 (2026): rainwater harvesting at new or expanded data centers (carried over), SB 93 (2026): data center sales-tax exemption where a tenant is a bank (carried over) (last checked 23 September 2026, review due 28 October 2026). Overdue means not re-read yet, not changed. No single record, and not this list, establishes complete statewide policy coverage.