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Google data center in Midlothian, Virginia

Updated Nov 3, 2026Sources: Compute Atlas; Server Country; Kapwork Grow tracker

Announced Aug 28, 2025, in Chesterfield County. No permit on record yet.

No permit on record yet. First seen Aug 15, 2026.

Where

Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia.

Exact site not public. Shown at township level.

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MidlothianChesterfield County
Building area
855,846sq ft
As Kapwork Grow tracker (Nov 2, 2026) reports it.
Work it brings
Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
Who bills here
Google
The operator, per Compute Atlas and Server Country. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.

  • Nearest other build

    Tuckahoe Technology Park

    15.7 miles away

  • Builds in Chesterfield County

    4

    Published builds in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.

  • Builds in Virginia

    103

    Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.

  • U.S. data center construction

    $84.95B a year

    August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.

What this means for you

Same customers, bigger invoices.

The electrical, mechanical and fiber work on this campus bills Google, its GC and the carriers you already know. Certify the invoices behind it, and funders compete to fund them.

An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.

Who your invoice goes to

  • GoogleOperator
  • General contractorNot named yet
  • CarriersNot named yet
  • UtilityNot named yet

Key facts

Stage
ApprovedCompute Atlas · Aug 27, 2026
Reported building area
855,846 sq ftKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Site area
888 acresKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Announced
Aug 28, 2025Compute Atlas · Aug 27, 2026
Construction start reported
Jun 22, 2026Compute Atlas · Aug 27, 2026
Location
Midlothian, Chesterfield County, VirginiaCompute Atlas · Aug 27, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location precision
Site footprint confirmedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Community response
Local opposition reportedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Power source
Grid powerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
AI workload
Confirmed AI or machine-learning workloadCompute Atlas · Aug 27, 2026
Facility type
AI data centerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Incentives reported
30-year fixed property-tax-rate agreement (Chesterfield County; dollar value undisclosed under VA law)Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026

What the public record lacks: the megawatts, the investment, the jobs, the general contractor's name and the completion date.

Who's involved

Operator
GoogleCompute Atlas · Aug 27, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Utility
Dominion Energy VirginiaKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
General contractor
Not named in a public record yet
Carriers
Appear here as the records name them

How far along it is

  1. · Compute Atlas

    Announced

  2. · Server Country

    Reported as announced

  3. · Compute Atlas

    Reported as announced

  4. · Compute Atlas

    Construction start reported

  5. · Kapwork's date

    First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot)

  6. · Kapwork's date

    Stage approved first seen by Kapwork

Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.

More builds

Same operator

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In Virginia

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The Kapwork Grow tracker lists 103 published builds in Virginia, as published Nov 3, 2026; these are the ones linked to this record.

Questions this page answers

Is Google Project Loch under construction?
No permit record shows it yet, so this page prints it as announced. Compute Atlas (Aug 27, 2026) reports it as approved. The sources disagree: Compute Atlas reports under construction, Server Country reports under construction and Server Country reports proposed.
Who is building Google Project Loch?
Google is the operator. No public record names the general contractor yet. It shows here the day one does.
Which carriers serve Google Project Loch?
No public record names them yet. They show here when a filing does.
How do contractors on Google Project Loch get paid sooner?
The owner pays the general contractor, and the general contractor pays its subcontractors. Once your customer approves your invoice, certify it with Kapwork. Funders compete to fund it, so you don't wait for the payment date. Free for businesses. Kapwork doesn't lend and doesn't contact your customer.

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Sources, updates and data

Compute Atlas · Server Country · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30

Where this comes from

What each source reports

  • Compute Atlas: Approved
  • Compute Atlas: Under construction, as “Project Peanut”
  • Compute Atlas: Approved, as “Project Skye”
  • Server Country: Under construction, as “Google Chesterfield County Campus (Project Peanut)”
  • Server Country: Proposed, as “Google Project Loch Chesterfield Campus”

Updates

  • Between Aug 15, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026: Stage approved first seen by Kapwork. Kapwork's date
  • Aug 15, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot). Kapwork's date
  • Jun 22, 2026: Construction start reported. Compute Atlas
  • May 14, 2026: Reported as announced. Compute Atlas
  • May 13, 2026: Reported as announced. Server Country
  • Aug 28, 2025: Announced. Compute Atlas

Limitations and interpretation

  • This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
  • Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0) · Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
  • An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
  • Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.

“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.

Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.

What we don't know yet

  • The megawatts, the investment, the jobs, the general contractor's name and the completion date.
  • The carriers that serve the campus.
  • How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.

Spot an error? Tell us

Cite: Kapwork Grow, “Google Project Loch”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/google-project-loch-va-dc_9c38b826321d, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.

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