Data centers in Chesterfield County, VA
Everything on file with the regulator, added up. Every figure links to the filing it came from.
Ranked 10 of 14 counties.
Chesterfield County holds 36 permitted backup generators across 2 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.
None of the 1 sites here that Groundwork could locate sits in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area.
No single permit discloses the 36 generators permitted in this county. That number exists only because 2 separately-published filings were added together. Each one, read alone, looks routine.
Every tracked site in Chesterfield County.
| Site | Operator | Permits | Generators | NOx t/yr | Flood zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chirisa Richmond LLC | Chirisa | 1 | 36 | — | Zone X |
| 11751 Meadowville Owner LLC c/o GFH Capital Ltd | — | 1 | — | — | 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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