An 87-acre data center called 'Project Tallmadge' is to be built in Strasburg, Virginia.

Developer Takanock is proposing the development of a 180MW campus near Interstate 81’s Exit 296 and the Mercury Paper facility.

According to the Town of Strasburg, the land parcel is zoned for industrial use, meaning the “data center use is by-right,” according to the town’s website about the data center.

Additional permitting for the site is set to be complete by Q3 2027, and construction will begin in that same quarter, according to a fact sheet about the data center made by Takanock.

Details about the facility’s capacity were not provided.

Takanock has said that the facility will bring “hundreds of construction jobs” to the region “at wages above the area average” and “significantly increase the tax revenue received by the town of Strasburg.”

A Takanock spokesperson has told DCD that the data center will use closed-loop cooling, and added that the company was bringing its own power by way of 400MW of front-of-the-meter on-site natural gas generation.

The fact sheet states that Project Tallmadge will use natural gas turbines.

Takanock also told DCD that they were updating the project website, which is currently inaccessible, and making changes to the fact sheet. Both of these edits will be online "in a week or so," according to the Takanock spokesperson.

Takanock began early planning and site-related activities in 2024. According to the county, construction is potentially starting in late 2027 and concluding around 2030.

Some locals have expressed opposition to the data center since information about the project surfaced in March 2025, citing concerns about the impact of a data center on air quality, noise, pollution, water, and power, and a now-closed petition on iPetitions against the facility has received 73 signatures.

Takanock is an energy company founded in 2023 by Kenneth Davies, founder of Google Energy and later head of Microsoft’s renewable strategy globally. He is also co-founder of Birch Infrastructure and its Rowan unit.

The company is funded by DigitalBridge and aims to address the power shortages in core markets by providing flexible on-site power solutions able to serve as primary power until the completion of a substation and a wholesale grid resource thereafter.

Takanock has previously said it has four "active sites" in three states in the US, with 2.8GW of IT capacity and 5.3GW of generation capacity. The firm is known to be targeting Arizona, and news that it was targeting Northern Virginia surfaced around the same time the company launched.

The firm has previously been linked to a project in Elkhart, Indiana.