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Carter's Store Tech Campus

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PermittedMixed receptionRecord updated July 26, 2026

Carter's Store Tech Campus is a permitted data center in Spotsylvania, Virginia (Spotsylvania County), operated by Amazon Web Services. The public record puts it at announced June 2023, 313 acres. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.

Facility record

Permitted

Operator
Amazon Web Services
Facility type
Data center
Location
Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, VA
Coordinates
38.1911, -77.4687
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
313 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
June 2023
Utility
Rappahannock Electric Co-op
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
Not established from a public source
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
Community reception
Mixed reception
Source confidence
Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. July 17, 2026
    Permitted
    Status change recorded. Source: Data Center Frontier

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Carter's Store Tech Campus in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors approved the four-campus AWS rezoning package (Summit Crossing, Carter's Store, Cosner, Orrock) 5-2 on Oct 10, 2023; the two dissenting supervisors said they supported the project but objected that some agreements were not in writing.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors approved the four-campus AWS rezoning package (Summit Crossing, Carter's Store, Cosner, Orrock) 5-2 on Oct 10, 2023; the two dissenting supervisors said they supported the project but objected that some agreements were not in writing.

Source

Notes on the record

One of Amazon Web Services' four Spotsylvania data center campuses. ~313 acres at 8432 Flippo Drive, east of I-95, bordering the Summit Crossing campus; up to ~2.6M sq ft of data center buildings through 2035 (Phase 1 max ~900k sq ft). Amazon Data Services filed June 2023 to rezone from Rural to Industrial-1; Board of Supervisors approved the four AWS rezonings 5-2 in October 2023 ("ST23" case series). Status conservatively recorded as permitted: sources conflict on construction timing, Data Center Frontier reports Phase 1 construction starting July 2027, while The Fredericksburg Advance (2026) describes buildings going up across the AWS sites. Coordinates exact (8432 Flippo Drive geocode).

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Power capacity in megawatts
  • Cooling method and water use
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
Power capacity in megawatts
The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Cooling method and water use
The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised
The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.

Have one of these documents? Send it to us and we will add it to the record with attribution.

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Carter's Store Tech Campus in Spotsylvania?

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Carter's Store Tech Campus in Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors approved the four-campus AWS rezoning package (Summit Crossing, Carter's Store, Cosner, Orrock) 5-2 on Oct 10, 2023; the two dissenting supervisors said they supported the project but objected that some agreements were not in writing.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Carter's Store Tech Campus?

No lawsuit over Carter's Store Tech Campus appears in the record we track as of July 26, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Carter's Store Tech Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Carter's Store Tech Campus is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Carter's Store Tech Campus, and how big is it?

Amazon Web Services is the operator on record. We hold 54 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 313 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Carter's Store Tech Campus," updated July 26, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/aws-carters-store-tech-campus-spotsylvania-va.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/aws-carters-store-tech-campus-spotsylvania-va, retrieved September 14, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.Data Center Frontier, Amazon plans major data center expansion in Spotsylvania County (Carter's Store: 313 ac, 2.6M sq ft, Phase 1 construction from July 2027) · Data Center Frontier · retrieved July 17, 2026
  2. 2.Baxtel, Amazon Carter's Store Tech Campus (313 ac, 2.6M sq ft, 8432 Flippo Drive, rezoning approved Oct 2023) · Baxtel · retrieved July 17, 2026
  3. 3.The Fredericksburg Advance, Digital Insights: status of data centers in Spotsylvania (Carter's Store among AWS campuses with buildings going up) · The Fredericksburg Advance · retrieved July 17, 2026
  4. 4.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
  5. 5.Fredericksburg Free Press, "WATCH: Rezoning for data centers approved in Spotsylvania" (Oct 13, 2023) · retrieved July 26, 2026

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