Data centers in Caroline County, VA
Everything on file with the regulator, added up. Every figure links to the filing it came from.
Ranked 6 of 14 counties.
Caroline County holds 266 permitted backup generators across 1 sites. The median tracked county with any generator data has 248.
Counties with permitted generator counts Groundwork has read from permit documents. Only Virginia publishes permits in a form that makes this countable today, so this ranking is Virginia-only — not a claim that no county elsewhere is denser.
What this does — and doesn't — mean.
These are emergency backup generators. They are permitted to run during grid outages and for routine testing — typically tens of hours a year, not continuously. A permit is a ceiling on what a site may emit, not a measurement of what it does emit.
A permit also is not a building. An issued permit establishes approval; it does not establish that anything is built, energised or running.
No single permit discloses the 266 generators permitted in this county. That number exists only because 1 separately-published filings were added together. Each one, read alone, looks routine.
Every tracked site in Caroline County.
| Site | Operator | Permits | Generators | NOx t/yr | Flood zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clean Arc Data Centers - VA-1 Campus | Clean Arc Data Centers | 1 | 266 | 13.01 | Pending |
1 operator of record.
Virginia is the only state that publishes a data-center-specific air permit list, with the issuance document for every permit. That is why Virginia pages carry permit counts, generator counts and permitted NOx, and most other states do not.
- VA DEQ — Issued Air Permits for Data Centers — in use. 201 permits, each with its issuance PDF, read for address, equipment and permitted emissions.
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