Google has filed to develop a data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia.

The search giant has filed an application with the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Norfolk District for Project Loch.

Located outside Richmond in Chesterfield County, site plans suggest three buildings and three on-site substations.

The campus is located near Midlothian on land west of Route 288 and south of Route 60, between Otterdale Road and Old Hundred Road.

According to the Army filing, the development will impact just under five acres of wetlands and 2,828 feet of stream channels.

Google first announced plans to develop in Chesterfield last year as part of a $9 billion investment program in Virginia.

Google is also behind two other projects in the county: Project Skye in Moseley and Project Peanut near the Meadowville Technology Park outside Richmond.

Google operates one cloud region in Virginia that launched in 2017. After buying land in the county in 2017, it launched its first self-built facilities in the Old Dominion in 2019. A second facility in Loudoun County launched in 2021, and a third in Prince William County in 2023.

In March 2024, a Google-linked company, Sharpless Enterprises, got approval for an 181-acre data center campus in Bristow, Virginia.

The company is also developing in Virginia’s Botetourt County, west of the city of Lynchburg, near the border between Virginia and West Virginia. Another Army filing suggests the planned Project Raspberry will total three buildings across 343 acres.