Project Loch Data Center Site (Watkins Centre, 750 Watkins Centre Parkway, Chesterfield County)

Name: Project Loch Data Center Site (Watkins Centre, 750 Watkins Centre Parkway, Chesterfield County)
Address: US

Announced

United States · 1 project · Last reported 2026-08-26

Summary

Chesterfield County's presentation to the Board of Supervisors' data-center work session of 26 August 2026 lists 'Project Loch/Watkins Center, 750 Watkins Centre Parkway': rezoning for data centers and accessory uses approved on 28 May 2025 after public hearings, water use limited to 850,000 gallons per day, 'Google owner, operator' and 'Construction start TBD'; the status map shows Watkins Centre as an approved site with construction under way or to be determined, and an aerial slide describes the property as historically used for construction staging. This records a named, approved but unbuilt Google data-center site on 26 August 2026. The 2025 rezoning (case 25SN1040, 349.97 acres, about 261 acres for data center and accessory uses) is a zoning entitlement, not a site plan or building permit, and no physical work is asserted. evidence

Chesterfield County, Virginia (Board of Supervisors meeting records on the county CivicClerk portal) · published 2026-08-26

Location

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Projects (1)

Project Loch / Watkins Centre — approved future Google data center site (rezoning 25SN1040)

Announced last observed as of 2026-08-26 · Project announcement

In the evening work session (item 14.B, Data Centers Update) county staff gave an overview of data centers in the county, provided 'a map of data centers in the county and their building status (approved - built; approved - under construction, or construction to be determined; and not approved - interest indicated)', noted that the zoning ordinance no longer permits data centers by right, and gave details of Meadowville Technology Park, VITA/Commonwealth Enterprise Solutions at 11751 Meadowville Lane, Chirisa Technology Park at 1381 Meadowville Tech Parkway, Chirisa Digital Drive at 1551 Digital Drive, Peanut LLC at 2100 Bermuda Hundred Road, 'Project Loch/Watkins Center located at 750 Watkins Centre Parkway; and Project Skye/Upper Magnolia located at 4201 Moseley Road'. evidence

Chesterfield County, Virginia (Board of Supervisors meeting records on the county CivicClerk portal) · published 2026-10-08

The listing shows the 26 August 2026 Board of Supervisors meeting (event 2029) with its agenda (file 5210, published 2026-08-26T13:34Z), agenda packet (file 5225, published 2026-08-26T13:43Z) and minutes (file 5292, published 2026-10-08T16:55Z). evidence

Chesterfield County, Virginia (CivicClerk meeting portal API) · publication date not stated

The page says that apart from the Meadowville area, 'the other two approved future data center sites - adjacent to a planned technology village at Upper Magnolia Green and near Route 288 at Watkins Centre - were rezoned for data center use in May 2025'. Its status table 'as of July 2026' lists 'Upper Magnolia Green, 4201 Moseley Road, Zoning approved; number of buildings not specified, 1.755 MGD' and 'Watkins Centre, 750 Watkins Centre Parkway, Zoning approved; number of buildings not specified, 0.850 MGD', alongside Chirisa CTP-01 to CTP-04, 11751 Meadowville LLC, Chirisa Digital Drive and Peanut LLC, and the unapproved Old Bermuda Data Center and Tradeport 95. It links the zoning documents for both sites and the Sky air-permit certification form, and announces a county data-center forum on 27 October 2026. evidence

Chesterfield County, Virginia (county website, chesterfield.gov) · publication date not stated

Rezoning of 349.97 acres ('Multiple Parcels - 750 Watkins Centre Parkway') from Agricultural and General Industrial to General Industrial (I-2), Midlothian district, with uses limited to data centers and specified accessory uses; the applicant seeks to develop about 261 acres for data center and accessory uses with about 89 acres of vegetated buffer. Planning Commission and staff recommended approval. evidence

Chesterfield County, Virginia (county website, chesterfield.gov) · publication date not stated

The only data-center item is the deferred amendment of County Code Chapter 9 on the annual allocation of data-center-derived tax revenue; no zoning, conditional-use or other item concerns Project Loch (750 Watkins Centre Parkway) or Project Skye (4201 Moseley Road). evidence

Chesterfield County, Virginia (Board of Supervisors meeting records on the county CivicClerk portal) · published 2026-09-23

No case concerns 750 Watkins Centre Parkway or 4201 Moseley Road; the nearest item is 26SN2174, a battery energy storage facility rezoning on 38.74 acres at 730 Watkins Centre Parkway, which is not a data center. evidence

Chesterfield County, Virginia (Planning Commission meeting records on the county CivicClerk portal) · published 2026-10-08

Companies

Owner: Google (current) evidence
Operator: Google (intended) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors: agenda packet for the meeting of 26 August 2026 (work session 14.B, 'Data Centers', presentation slides) evidence row
Chesterfield County, Virginia (Board of Supervisors meeting records on the county CivicClerk portal) · published 2026-08-26 · Government record

Locator

Campus locator · Official source · official_tax_parcel_centroid evidence

Source checks

Not reviewed against imagery not_reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verification

Status age at review: 62 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 37.49563, -77.69253
Geometry licence: public-record-source-terms
Use scope: Campus locator
Scope class: official_tax_parcel_centroid
Authority: Official source
Source entity: Campus
Method: official_county_cadastral_parcel_centroid
Derivation: direct_geometry
Precision scope: Planar centroid of Chesterfield County parcel 717705170100000 at 750 Watkins Centre Parkway (341.49 geodesic acres in two parts against 341.5 deeded acres, about 1571 by 1933 m), the address the county gives for Project Loch; the centroid lies inside the 304.5-acre main part. It locates the rezoned property, not a building footprint.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The county publishes no positional accuracy for its parcel polygons; the centroid represents a 341-acre property and no building positions are documented.
Geometry evidence: 9b897c2b

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

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Evidence for Project Loch Data Center Site (Watkins Centre, 750 Watkins Centre Parkway, Chesterfield County)
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors: agenda for the meeting of 23 September 2026 Archived copy	Chesterfield County, Virginia (Board of Supervisors meeting records on the county CivicClerk portal) Government record	Site and project identity	2026-09-23	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Chesterfield County, Virginia	`14d604549914ef666790eecdf2edfaeae2ff95595356ea0895710ca44226573c` Retained source material; see source provenance
Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors: agenda packet for the meeting of 26 August 2026 (work session 14.B, 'Data Centers', presentation slides) Archived copy	Chesterfield County, Virginia (Board of Supervisors meeting records on the county CivicClerk portal) Government record	Project announcement, Operator claim, Owner claim	2026-08-26	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Chesterfield County, Virginia	`6147dbd933fa16e5520c73109cb57fb4b92fbba8945bcd183e2852ee348b188b` Retained source material; see source provenance
Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors: minutes of the meeting of 26 August 2026 (item 14.B, Data Centers Update) Archived copy	Chesterfield County, Virginia (Board of Supervisors meeting records on the county CivicClerk portal) Government record	Site and project identity	2026-10-08	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Chesterfield County, Virginia	`07b1ffda722d2bf5bc2b142ad65567bd724897e11efec1c5a6709185d6003b80` Retained source material; see source provenance
Chesterfield County CivicClerk event listing from 1 August 2026, first page (published files and publication times) Archived copy	Chesterfield County, Virginia (CivicClerk meeting portal API) Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Chesterfield County, Virginia	`68fb7dfacb612a2bbe313643338a2a5b2bfd706bc29af66cfef08f2d273b38c8` Retained source material; see source provenance
Chesterfield County parcel 717705170100000, 750 Watkins Centre Parkway (ParcelsEnriched layer) Archived copy	Chesterfield County, Virginia (GIS; ArcGIS Online organisation ChesterfieldVA) Government record	Geometry	not stated	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Chesterfield County, Virginia	`40df76d3d10875732942da202d58c971d5b3009f16dddf264082ee0fc8722f0e` Retained source material; see source provenance
Chesterfield County Planning Commission: agenda for the meeting of 20 October 2026 Archived copy	Chesterfield County, Virginia (Planning Commission meeting records on the county CivicClerk portal) Government record	Site and project identity	2026-10-08	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Chesterfield County, Virginia	`34d07ea6a2ee85511d27fe96a2365a5e21257b2489d508628f74fcf9635d49b7` Retained source material; see source provenance
Chesterfield County staff report, case 25SN1040 Watkins Centre South (Board of Supervisors public hearing 28 May 2025) Archived copy	Chesterfield County, Virginia (county website, chesterfield.gov) Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Chesterfield County, Virginia	`82ab8fc1202074298e191bb9932c503a9a5b677c98ffd4e1aacd09fd2a502b15` Retained source material; see source provenance
Chesterfield County: Data Centers (county information page with 'Data Center Project Status as of July 2026') Archived copy	Chesterfield County, Virginia (county website, chesterfield.gov) Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Chesterfield County, Virginia	`c8ed0832e7300777d16a84f085d46806d6114f3ab4f34a6e79a68c79c9b853ea` Retained source material; see source provenance

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). Project Loch Data Center Site (Watkins Centre, 750 Watkins Centre Parkway, Chesterfield County) [site vcc-site-148cf0bd79f9e16d2422]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-148cf0bd79f9e16d2422/

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