Meta has been named as the company looking to develop almost 3,000 acres into a data center campus in Mason County.

As per a report from the Ledger Independent, Meta was identified during an October 13 Mason County Fiscal Court meeting, in which a community benefits agreement was passed by county commissioners.

Under that agreement, Meta will invest $10 billion in the project, with the potential for this to grow in future phases, and will generate more than 4,000 construction jobs and 300 long-term roles once operational. Meta will also contribute $115 million to infrastructure improvements on roads, water treatment plants, and pipelines and will see annual payments to the county in the millions of dollars per development phase.

In return, Meta has been awarded a 40-year tax break on local property taxes - there will be $800bn in Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRBs) for this project, with an estimated $10 billion per phase.

That a massive data center campus was coming to the area was first revealed in November 2025, with an anonymous developer at the time evaluating 5,000 acres of land near the Big Pond and Tuckahoe roads.

In May of this year, a 2,080-acre parcel in the area was rezoned for data center use, with documents suggesting six 718,740 sq ft (66,773 sqm) data center buildings and three substations would be built at the site. Power capacity has been said to possibly reach up to 2.2GW.

The local community has voiced concerns regarding the project, with a petition against the project having 1,429 signatures at the time of writing.

Meta said: “We’re grateful to the Mason County fiscal court for its careful review. With this potential project, we’ll not only pay the full cost of the power we use, but we’ll invest directly in Mason County — in schools, workforce training and local infrastructure — guided by what local leaders and residents tell us they need. We take seriously the diversity of opinions in the county, and we intend to keep showing up and listening, not just during the approval process but in the long run.”

Mason County Judge Executive Owen McNeill added: “This agreement with Meta represents the hard work of many dedicated individuals and organizations that envisioned a brighter future for Mason County and all of our residents. Meta represents the pinnacle of technology companies that only a few short years ago, we would have never dreamt would invest here. For our community, closer to the rural end of the spectrum than urban, their investments positively address just about every issue our communities are facing today and will greatly bolster them well into the future.”