Plans for a data center campus in Virginia’s Prince William County have resurfaced.

As reported by local press, including InsideNova and Rappahannock News, JK Land Holdings is again proposing to develop a new campus on land in Gainesville.

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The 82-acre Gardner Property in Gainesville would total five data centers and a substation. Plans for the project were submitted to the county last month.

The first buildings would come online in five to seven years, in line with new power availability in the area.

Data centers were first pitched at the property in 2023. Having undergone several revisions, the latest version reduces the height and overall square footage of the proposed buildings, as well as other proffers around plant equipment.

The site is located outside the county's Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District, which allows data centers by-right, and so requires a special use permit.

The property was previously the Hillwood Camping Park, but the site was shut in 2022 after JK bought the land in the hopes of rezoning for data centers.

The proposal is yet to be heard by the county planning commission or board of supervisors.

JK Land Holdings is a major data center player in Loudoun County with multiple projects in various stages of development across the county.

The Coalition to Protect Prince William County called the project a “bad rash that just won't go away.”

“Approving this project will require more energy infrastructure. Approving this project will bring more industrial blight,” the group said in a newsletter about the proposals.

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