Chesterfield County's Board of Supervisors has approved two rezoning requests for data center projects near Richmond, Virginia.

As reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, one of the projects is located at 750 Watkins Centre Parkway and spans 350 acres, while the other is located at 4200 Mosely Road, on 979 acres of land in the planned Upper Magnolia Green West technology village.

The zoning requests for both projects were filed in February of this year, and recommended for approval by county staff earlier this month.

The Upper Magnolia project would be split into two tracts -Tract A spanning 880 acres, and to be limited to data centers and related accessory uses. Tract B would be limited to data centers, offices, labs, pharmaceutical products manufacturing, R&D facilities, and a few other principal uses.

The project would include a 150-foot limit on building heights. The EDA is also proposing to use 350 acres as "Swift Creek Preserve," a conservation area that would not be built upon and will have 15,000 feet of streams restored.

Earlier this month, revisions were made to the Upper Magnolia project's architectural treatment and exterior lighting requirements.

Additionally, the revised plan now includes a new high school, middle school, and elementary school, as well as an electrical substation, water tank, communication tower, and a Virginia Department of Transportation laydown yard.

Meanwhile, the Watkins Centre project would be solely for data centers and accessory uses such as offices, research and development, warehouse, substations, and utility structures, with building heights of up to 150 feet.

Details about the number of buildings planned for each site or the square footage of the data centers have not been shared.

Also in Chesterfield County, Chirisa Technology Parks and PowerHouse Data Centers purchased 104 acres in September 2024 to develop a data center, directly adjacent to Chirisa's existing facility. This week, the JV secured $750 million in funding for the data center project, which, upon completion, will be used by CoreWeave.

In February 2025, Tract filed to rezone 740 acres in Chesterfield County just outside of Colonial Heights. Tract was founded by former Cologix CEO Grant van Rooyen and describes itself as a company that acquires, zones, entitles, and develops ‘master-planned’ data center parks. The company aims to get sites zoned, powered, and shovel-ready for other companies to develop data centers on.