New documents reveal scope of Google’s Chesterfield data center campus

A site plan filed this week shows that Google plans to build three data centers of more than 800,000 square feet next to Meadowville Technology Park in Chesterfield County.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced in August that the California tech giant planned to invest an additional $9 billion in Virginia through the end of 2026, with a significant portion going toward the building of a new data center campus in Chesterfield, but he and Google did not reveal many specifics at the time.

The site plan says that Google will build an 855,846-square-foot data center campus on about 307 acres at 2700 Bermuda Hundred Road in multiple phases. There will be three data center buildings, each 285,282 square feet, and 345 parking spaces.

Youngkin said in August that Google’s new investment will focus on cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure, and that it will grow its existing facilities in Loudoun and Prince William counties, as well as enhance education and workforce development programs for Virginians.

According to planning documents, Dallas-based AECOM is the project’s designer, while Herndon-based Bohler Engineering will serve as the civil engineer and project applicant.

The data center campus’s project cost, megawatt capacity and the project timeline are still unknown, and Google, Chesterfield County and Bohler did not immediately return requests for comment.

A Google spokesperson previously said in August that construction on the data center is underway and that data center projects typically take 18 to 24 months to complete.

The governor’s office previously said that once the new Chesterfield County data center is complete, the facility will join the Loudoun County and Prince William campuses as part of Google’s global network of data centers.

Google has still not provided estimates on how many jobs the Chesterfield project would produce or details on plans in Loudoun and Prince William counties.