Google Project Loch

Facility record

Lifecycle

PermittedSource-reported lifecycle

Location precision

approximate

Address as listed

750 Watkins Centre Parkway

Coordinates

37.454, -77.71

Serving utility, source-reported

Dominion Energy VirginiaView utility impact evidence

Operational capacity, source-reported

Not published

Planned capacity, source-reported

Not published

Source record updated

2026-10-28

Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.

Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.

Reported lifecycle history

1. 2025-06-06Proposed

   Chesterfield Board of Supervisors approved rezoning of ~350 acres at 750 Watkins Centre Pkwy (Watkins Centre South) for data-center use; a fixed tax-rate agreement was also approved

2. 2025-08-28Proposed

   Google publicly confirmed as operator of Project Loch (alongside Projects Peanut and Skye); Google stated Loch and Skye are not in near-term development plans

3. 2026-05-14Proposed

   Army Corps of Engineers (Norfolk District) permit application filed for impacts to ~5 acres of wetlands and 2,828 ft of stream channels near Tomahawk Creek

4. 2026-08-27Permitted

   Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors has approved the local rezoning for Project Loch (Watkins Centre South site); Supervisor Jessica Schneider is quoted confirming she voted to approve Loch. US Army Corps of Engineers Clean Water Act and Virginia Marine Resources Commission permits for wetlands impact remain pending as of 2026-06-22/06-26.

   Underlying source

Source notes

Codename Project Loch; land acquired via shell entity Aeris Investments LLC (~$29M for ~340 acres). Site: 750 Watkins Centre Pkwy (Watkins Centre South), west of Rt 288 and south of Rt 60, near Westchester Commons. Three data-center buildings planned, each with a dedicated on-site substation. Google stated in Aug 2025 it has no near-term plans to develop Loch. Capacity MW not disclosed. A fixed tax-rate agreement with Chesterfield County for the data-center equipment rate is recorded as a program label with no dollar value, because no readable cited source states one, and as of October 2026 the agreement text has not been found. Coordinates are an approximate site centroid (address-derived, not GPS-verified).

Three on-site substations planned. Dominion Energy (sole regional utility) has filed with the VA SCC to build 230-kV lines to a new Duval Substation (~$121M) to serve western Chesterfield data-center load. Dominion is inferred (service territory), not confirmed in a Loch-specific filing.

Sources and provenance

• Google files for data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia · source retrieved 2026-07-07
• Chesterfield scores a Google trifecta: ties to 3 sites across the county · source retrieved 2026-07-07
• In Google, Chesterfield landed the Rolls-Royce of data center operators · source retrieved 2026-07-07
• Chesterfield County approves two data center developments · source retrieved 2026-07-07
• Chesterfield EDA secures zoning approval for two data center projects · source retrieved 2026-07-07
• HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · source retrieved 2026-07-23
• Google's $9B bet on a trio of Chesterfield data center campuses · source retrieved 2026-08-27
• Chesterfield says it won't approve any more data center projects · source retrieved 2026-10-14
• Data Center Tracker | The Chesterfield Report · source retrieved 2026-10-28

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.