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One app for every Virginia county or city: data center sites, power, grid and FEMA risk, with hearing alerts and an API. 381 data center buildings are mapped in 12 of its 133 counties and cities, and businesses pay 9.95¢ per kWh for power, 26% below the US average.
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Where are Virginia's data centers? 381 mapped buildings 12 of Virginia's 133 counties and cities. Loudoun County has the most: 231 .
Loudoun 231 Prince William 72 Fairfax 34 Mecklenburg 18 Henrico 15
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Which risks do the counties and cities with data centers face? Drought is the most common risk: 1 of the 12 counties and cities with mapped data centers rate high for it.
Drought 1 of 12 Heat wave 1 of 12 Inland flooding 1 of 12 Hurricane 0 of 12 Tornado 0 of 12 Wildfire 0 of 12 Bars: counties and cities with mapped data centers that rate Relatively high or Very high
Show data centers again All 133 counties and cities as a table
County or city facts Accomack County Albemarle County Alexandria city Alleghany County Amelia County Amherst County Appomattox County Arlington County Augusta County Bath County Bedford County Bland County Botetourt County Bristol city Brunswick County Buchanan County Buckingham County Buena Vista city Campbell County Caroline County Carroll County Charles City County Charlotte County Charlottesville city Chesapeake city Chesterfield County Clarke County Colonial Heights city Covington city Craig County Culpeper County Cumberland County Danville city Dickenson County Dinwiddie County Emporia city Essex County Fairfax city Fairfax County Falls Church city Fauquier County Floyd County Fluvanna County Franklin city Franklin County Frederick County Fredericksburg city Galax city Giles County Gloucester County Goochland County Grayson County Greene County Greensville County Halifax County Hampton city Hanover County Harrisonburg city Henrico County Henry County Highland County Hopewell city Isle of Wight County James City County King and Queen County King George County King William County Lancaster County Lee County Lexington city Loudoun County Louisa County Lunenburg County Lynchburg city Madison County Manassas city Manassas Park city Martinsville city Mathews County Mecklenburg County Middlesex County Montgomery County Nelson County New Kent County Newport News city Norfolk city Northampton County Northumberland County Norton city Nottoway County Orange County Page County Patrick County Petersburg city Pittsylvania County Poquoson city Portsmouth city Powhatan County Prince Edward County Prince George County Prince William County Pulaski County Radford city Rappahannock County Richmond city Richmond County Roanoke city Roanoke County Rockbridge County Rockingham County Russell County Salem city Scott County Shenandoah County Smyth County Southampton County Spotsylvania County Stafford County Staunton city Suffolk city Surry County Sussex County Tazewell County Virginia Beach city Warren County Washington County Waynesboro city Westmoreland County Williamsburg city Winchester city Wise County Wythe County York County
What will a Virginia site pay for power, and how fast is demand growing? Business power in Virginia costs 9.95¢ per kWh, 26% below the US, and demand grew 60.5% since 2019.
What do businesses pay for power? 9.95¢ per kWh 13.37¢ .
How fast is business power demand growing? Business power use 60.5% since 2019, almost 6 times the US rate (+10.5% ).
0% +25% +50% Virginia +60.5% US +10.5% 2019 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 2025 What makes Virginia's power? 106.4 TWh 58% , nuclear 27% , solar 8% .
Natural gas 58% Nuclear 27% Solar 8.3% Coal 3.4% Wood 2.5% Hydro 1.0% Under 1% each: other biomass, petroleum, other (eia's catch-all), wind. Pumped storage used more power than it made, so it is left out.
How much new power is proposed? 7,554 MW of new plants are proposed 29,581 MW: solar 47% , wind 36% , natural gas 12% , other 5% .
Solar 3,559 MW Wind 2,718 MW Natural gas 936 MW Other (EIA's catch-all) 341 MW Which grid would a Virginia site join, and what are its water and hazard risks? PJM serves 99.2% of Virginia's power sales; drought costs it most.
Which grid serves Virginia? PJM 99.2% of Virginia's retail power sales.
Share of 2025 retail sales, by each utility's balancing authority
How much water do Virginia's power plants use? Virginia's power plants took in 1,528 billion gallons of water in 2024 to cool and returned more than 99%; 3.7 billion gallons were used up
Returned 99.8% Used up 0.2%
Which hazards cost Virginia most? Drought is Virginia's biggest risk (relatively high)
Drought Relatively high Inland flooding Relatively moderate Coastal flooding Relatively moderate Heat wave Relatively moderate Hurricane Relatively moderate Tornado Relatively moderate Wildfire Relatively low Earthquake Relatively low What's in Prince William County's project pipeline? 37 project records 9 rezonings filed, 18 approved, 7 under construction, and 3 approvals a court canceled. Active cases cover 2,329 acres as filed.
What stage is each case at? One square per case.
Rezoning filed 9 Approved 18 Under construction 7 Canceled by a court 3 When did the county first record each case? 22 of 37 cases were first recorded in 2021–2023
All 37 cases by stage Rezoning filed University Business Park (and substation) · REZ2023-00019 · 117 acres as filed Gardner Property (and substation) · REZ2023-00018 · 83 acres as filed Compton Property Rezoning (and substation) · REZ2021-00019 · 77 acres as filed Gainesville East Data Center (and substation) · SUP2023-00006 · 59 acres as filed Gainesville West Data Center (and substation) · SUP2023-00005 · 59 acres as filed Bristow Campus · REZ2022-00030 · 58 acres as filed Ashton Data Center (and substation) · REZ2022-00031 · 52 acres as filed Potomac Technology Park (and substation) · REZ2022-00015 · 52 acres as filed Innovation on the Parkway PRA · REZ2023-00001 · 18 acres as filed Approved Devlin Technology Park · REZ2022-00022 · 270 acres as filed Hunter Property Rezoning · REZ2020-00022 · 196 acres as filed Gainesville Tech Park · REZ2020-00011 · 136 acres as filed I-66 & Route 29 Technology Park · REZ2021-00001 · 103 acres as filed Airport Gateway Commerce Center I (amended) · PLN2011-00437 · 97 acres as filed Parsons Business Park · REZ2023-00028 · 91 acres as filed Wellington Glen Technology Park · REZ2024-00018 · 49 acres as filed Village Place Technology Park · REZ2020-00024 · 48 acres as filed Mid-County Industrial Park · REZ2024-00006 · 41 acres as filed Westview 66 · REZ2019-00025 · 41 acres as filed Wellington Glen Parcel K · REZ2021-00014 · 40 acres as filed Manassas Point PRA · REZ2024-00001 · 40 acres as filed KH Data Capital Development (IMVA-3 4 5) · REZ2021-00022 · 37 acres as filed PRA and Release of Declaration, Hornbaker Road · REZ2019-00032 · 36 acres as filed Blackburn Land Bay 5 · REZ2019-00022 · 28 acres as filed South Point Phase II · REZ2020-00021 · 22 acres as filed VA 8/9 Rezoning · REZ2024-00041 · 19 acres as filed Stoneview · REZ2023-00026 · 12 acres as filed Under construction Youth for Tomorrow · REZ2019-00034 · 182 acres as filed Ashwood Addition · REZ2018-00001 · 99 acres as filed Avanti at Innovation Proffer Amendment & Rezoning · REZ2019-00028 · 88 acres as filed NVA05C Rezoning · REZ2024-00042 · 24 acres as filed Manassas Corporate Center MCC-7 · REZ2024-00025 · 23 acres as filed DC-4 PRA · REZ2023-00002 · 20 acres as filed QTS - Project Hero Expansion (DC6) · REZ2020-00019 · 13 acres as filed Canceled by a court Compass Datacenters Prince William County Campus 1 · REZ2022-00036 · 884 acres as filed Digital Gateway North · REZ2022-00032 · 534 acres as filed Digital Gateway South · REZ2022-00033 · 342 acres as filed Who uses it, and what do they see first? Lawyers, brokers, site teams, utilities, insurers and investors each start from their own view of Virginia's 133 counties and cities.
Land-use and energy lawyers Follow rezoning cases and hearings, with each agenda and record as it posts.
University Business Park (and substation) REZ2023-00019 · 117 acres Gardner Property (and substation) REZ2023-00018 · 83 acres Compton Property Rezoning (and substation) REZ2021-00019 · 77 acres 9 rezoning cases filed in Prince William County, of 37 project records
Land and industrial brokers Rank counties and cities by mapped data center buildings, with the power price behind them.
Loudoun County 231 Prince William County 72 Fairfax County 34 Mecklenburg County 18 Henrico County 15 231 mapped buildings in Loudoun County, the most in Virginia
Site selection teams Shortlist counties and cities by mapped sites, power and risk on one map.
12 of 133 counties and cities have mapped data centers
Utilities and power buyers Follow prices, demand and the grid behind each site. Bars: business power sales since 2019.
+60.5% business power sales since 2019, US +10.5%
Insurers and lenders Bars: how many of the counties and cities with data centers rate high for each hazard.
Drought 1 of 12 Heat wave 1 of 12 Inland flooding 1 of 12 Hurricane 0 of 12 2 of 12 counties and cities with mapped data centers rate high for at least one
Investors and analysts See which new power plants are proposed, by source and size. Bars: MW proposed.
Solar 3,559 Wind 2,718 Natural gas 936 Other 341 7,554 MW of new plants proposed for 2026–2030
What's inside Virginia Data Center Intelligence? One app for all 133 Virginia counties and cities, plus hearing alerts and an API. Every screen below is filled with Virginia's real data.
The Intelligence app Every county or city's sites, power, water and risk on one screen, with your watchlist.
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381 mapped buildings
7 AI campuses
9.95¢ business power, per kWh
+5.1% business demand, last 12 months
Watchlist Mapped Flood Heat Drought Loudoun County 231 moderate moderate moderate Prince William County 72 moderate moderate low Fairfax County 34 high high low Mecklenburg County 18 low low high Henrico County 15 moderate moderate moderate
Hearings and filings Follow counties and cities and cases; get the agenda and the record when a hearing is posted.
Hearings · Virginia
Prince William County · rezoning cases you follow Planning Commission and Board agendas
University Business Park (and substation) REZ2023-00019 · Rezoning filed · 117 acres as filed Gardner Property (and substation) REZ2023-00018 · Rezoning filed · 83 acres as filed Compton Property Rezoning (and substation) REZ2021-00019 · Rezoning filed · 77 acres as filed Gainesville East Data Center (and substation) SUP2023-00006 · Rezoning filed · 59 acres as filed Alerts New projects, stage changes, hearings and data updates for what you follow, by email or in the app.
Alerts · Virginia
Power demand Business power sales +5.1% on the year before: 88.2 TWh EIA-861M, 2025-09 to 2026-08 Site risk Fairfax County (34 mapped buildings) rates Relatively high for inland flooding FEMA National Risk Index New supply 7,554 MW of new plants proposed for 2026–2030EIA-860 Data API County, power, risk and project data as JSON for your own tools.
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GET /v1/counties/51107 {
"fips" : "51107" ,
"name" : "Loudoun County" ,
"state" : "VA" ,
"pop2025" : 449749 ,
"pop_change_2020_pct" : 6.8 ,
"density_per_sqmi" : 872 ,
"nri" : {
"risk_rating" : "Relatively Low" ,
"ifld" : {
"rating" : "Relatively Moderate" ,
"score" : 83.9 Show the full response },
"hwav" : {
"rating" : "Relatively Moderate" ,
"score" : 91.1
},
"drgt" : {
"rating" : "Relatively Moderate" ,
"score" : 74.1
}
},
"grid" : {
"rtos" : [
"PJM"
],
"utilities_n" : 2
},
"state_power" : {
"commercial_cents_kwh" : 9.95 ,
"us_commercial_cents_kwh" : 13.37 ,
"as_of" : "2025"
}
} What does it cost? Virginia Data Center Intelligence is $390 a month for 3 seats.
Virginia Data Center Intelligence $390 a month The Intelligence app: every county or city's sites, power, water and risk Alerts on new projects, filings and hearings Reports as web page, PDF and CSV 3 seats · cancel any time Data API From $999 a month County, power, risk and project data as JSON Keys for your own tools and models Public bodies $4,680 a year Counties, cities, utilities and co-ops Paid by invoice What stays open? The map, the county or city pages and every data center page stay open to everyone.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
OpenStreetMap contributors Epoch AI U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) FEMA This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s). U.S. Census Bureau How CamsAhead counts cameras · Report a problem · Report a camera
Mapped data center buildings Buildings and sites that OpenStreetMap volunteers have tagged as data centers. It counts mapped objects, not an official register, so some data centers are not on it yet.
× Drought, the water view FEMA's drought rating is our water view for each county or city: how much drought is expected to cost a year, against the rest of the US.
× Expected annual loss (FEMA rating) FEMA's National Risk Index estimates what each hazard costs a year, on average, in damage to buildings, crops and people. It then rates each county or state against the rest of the US, from Very low to Very high. "Rate high" here means Relatively high or Very high.
× AI campuses A large data center campus built for AI computing, on Epoch AI's list of AI data centers. "Being built" means Epoch lists no computers running there yet.
× Cents per kWh The average price businesses paid for one kilowatt-hour of electricity in 2025: their total bills divided by the power they bought. Virginia ranks 9th cheapest of 51 (the 50 states and DC).
× Project records Data center cases from Prince William County's own records, each at its stage: rezoning filed, approved, under construction, or canceled by a court.
× ISO/RTO An ISO or RTO runs the high-voltage grid and the wholesale power market for a region. PJM serves 99.2% of Virginia's retail power sales.
× Commercial sales Electricity sold to businesses: offices, shops and most data centers. EIA does not count data centers on their own; most sit in this group. Virginia sold 54.0 TWh in 2019 and 86.6 TWh in 2025.
Latest 12 months (2025-09 to 2026-08): 88.2 TWh, +5.1% on the 12 months before.
× TWh (terawatt-hours) A terawatt-hour is a billion kilowatt-hours: a measure of how much electricity is made or used over time.
× Proposed capacity New generators that plant owners have reported to EIA for 2026–2030. They are plans, not commitments: some are delayed or dropped.
× Other (EIA's catch-all) EIA's own "Other" group, for sources outside its main fuel types. EIA does not split it further in this table, so neither do we.
× Balancing authority The organisation that keeps supply and demand matched, minute by minute, in its area. Each utility reports its sales under one.
× Water taken in and used up Taken in (withdrawn): water a power plant pulls from a river, lake or well to cool. Used up (consumed): the part that evaporates and does not go back. These are power plant figures, the grid's water, not data center water.
× Year of the county record The date of the county's first public record of each case: the approval for decided cases, the filing for pending ones.
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