The fate of 81-acre data center near Leesburg, Virginia, is set to be decided by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors.

Elsewhere in Virginia, a data center expansion request has been put on hold in Mecklenburg County, and the meeting to discuss the Bristow Campus data center project in Prince William county has been deferred.

JK Land Holdings awaits approval for rezoning request in Leesburg

A data center project proposed by JK Land Holdings is hoping to receive approval to rezone 81 acres from Transitional Residential-10 and Joint Land Management Area-20 to Industrial Park from the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors.

As reported by Loudoun Now, county supervisors were expected to vote on the application during a meeting on November 7.

Update - Loudoun County has informed DCD that the vote was deferred at the request of the applicant. A new meeting date has not yet been set.

The data center project, dubbed Greenlin Park, will feature 2.1 million sq ft (195,100 sqm)of data center and utility substation space on land between Sycolin Road and the Dulles Greenway.

The project received a recommendation of approval from the Planning Commission in July, though staff cited concerns about the design, with the application proposing 60-foot tall buildings and not offering specific site plans to show where there structures would be located.

Following a September 11 public hearing in which community members criticized the project's size, environmental impact, and the increased cost of utilities, JK Land Holdings reduced the building height to 55 feet and has committed to restricting power demand to no more than 300MW for five years.

The webcast of the meeting has not yet been published in Loudoun County's meeting archives. DCD has contacted the county for more information about the outcome of the vote.

Meeting for Bristow Campus data center project in Prince William County deferred

The Bristow Campus data center project in Virginia's Prince William County, originally set to receive a decision on November 19, has had its meeting deferred.

County Supervisors were set to vote on the project led by Stack Infrastructure, however, Gainesville District Supervisor Bob Weirt has speculated that the deferral may be because the applicant knows "they don't have the votes."

As reported by Potomac Local, the Bristow Campus sought to rezone 58 acres of land near Nokesville Road and Broad Run Creek from agricultural to a Planned Business District, enabling the development of two high-rise office buildings and light industrial structures up to 75 feet tall.

The project is outside of the Prince William County Data Center Overland District, a designated area in 2017 for data centers.

Stack purchased the land in December 2023. It is seeking to develop two three-story data centers on the site, each spanning 450,000 sq ft (41,806 sqm). The company has seven data centers on adjacent land.

Mecklenburg County supervisors defer data center expansion request until January

Over in Mecklenburg County, in the south of Virginia, a meeting regarding a data center expansion project has been deferred to January 2025.

TecFusions is seeking to rezone seven parcels on Burlington Drive outside of Clarksville to build artificial intelligence data centers, reports SoVa Now.

The move to postpone the meeting was made by Board Vice Chair Andy Hargrove who said that nearby residents did not have sufficient knowledge of the project at present.

Those nearby residents are comprised of a single family that owns land in the area and did not know why the property was being rezoned and had not attended the Planning Commission meeting on October 31 where rezoning was approved without objection.

TecFusions has an existing Clarksville data center at 250 Burlington Drive, and has purchased an additional 66.13 acres to expand its facility. It also wants to develop some houses on the site for people working at the data center.

The Clarksville Town Manager Jeff Jones has approved providing 20,000 gallons of water and sewer per day for the data center projects.

Founded in 2023 and led by former QTS CTO Simon Tusha, TECfusions recently signed a deal with TensorWave to provide the GPU cloud firm with 1GW of capacity.