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Data centers in Virginia Beach City, VA

Everything on file with the regulator, added up. Every figure links to the filing it came from.

1data center site
1issued air permits

1 permitted facilities.

These facilities hold active air permits in EPA's national registry. Groundwork has not yet read VA's permit documents, so generator counts and permitted emissions show as pending here — unlike Virginia, where every figure is read from the permit itself.

What this does — and doesn't — mean.

It is smaller than it sounds

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.

It is bigger than any one filing shows

No single permit discloses the total 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 Virginia Beach City.

SiteOperatorPermitsGeneratorsNOx t/yrFlood zone
Sentara HealthcareSentara Healthcare1Zone X

1 operator of record.

What VA publishes

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 Centersin use. 201 permits, each with its issuance PDF, read for address, equipment and permitted emissions.

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