Microsoft Panhandle Road Campus (AVC17 expansion)
Microsoft · Boydton, VA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 36.6674, -78.3897
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-09
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
- Proposed
Microsoft filed with the US Army Corps of Engineers to develop 490 acres adjacent to its existing AVC17 campus; the entire approval and construction process is expected to take four to five years.
Underlying source
Source notes
New campus on 490 acres south of Highway 58 and east of Panhandle Road, adjacent to the existing AVC17 campus and able to 'utilize nearby existing data center infrastructure' per the application. Three one-story data center buildings plus access roads, an on-site electrical substation and a water storage facility, to be built in two phases. Size and capacity were not disclosed. Application cites the southern Virginia Regional Network Group, where DCD reports existing data centers are outgrowing design capacity.
Sources and provenance
- Microsoft files to expand data center campus in Mecklenburg County, Virginia · source retrieved 2026-09-09
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.