Data Center Registry
Project Flash (Summit View Business Park)
Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia · All 4 Crusoe sites
Project Flash (Summit View Business Park) is a cancelled data center in Rocky Mount, Virginia (Franklin County), operated by Crusoe. The public record puts it at announced July 16, 2026. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Cancelled
- Operator
- Crusoe
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Rocky Mount, Franklin County, VA
- Coordinates
- 36.9979, -79.8922 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- July 16, 2026
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- 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
- Opposed
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
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.
- August 16, 2026CancelledBoone District Supervisor Mike Meredith announced the county had received verification that the project would not move forward. No agreements were ever reached and no votes were taken on data center development in Franklin County. Source: Smith Mountain Eagle
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to Project Flash (Summit View Business Park) in Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. More than 100 residents gathered at the Scruggs Volunteer Fire Department over water, electricity and quality-of-life impacts; residents learned of the project only through FOIA requests and demanded answers from the county.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.
More than 100 residents gathered at the Scruggs Volunteer Fire Department over water, electricity and quality-of-life impacts; residents learned of the project only through FOIA requests and demanded answers from the county.
Notes on the record
Project surfaced via Freedom of Information Act requests to Franklin County; the county had been in discussions with Crusoe since November 2025. County-owned Summit View Business Park totals 540 acres along US 220 and reportedly has grid and natural gas infrastructure; roughly 150 acres of it were under discussion. DCD reported the project 'may total 50-100MW', a range, not a settled figure, so no capacity value is recorded here.
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
- Land area
- Which utility serves it
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.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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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.
- Google Botetourt Center at Greenfield Data Center Campus · Daleville · Google29 mi · Permitted
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Project Flash (Summit View Business Park) data center in Rocky Mount?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Project Flash (Summit View Business Park) in Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. More than 100 residents gathered at the Scruggs Volunteer Fire Department over water, electricity and quality-of-life impacts; residents learned of the project only through FOIA requests and demanded answers from the county.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Flash (Summit View Business Park) data center?
No lawsuit over Project Flash (Summit View Business Park) appears in the record we track as of September 9, 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 Project Flash (Summit View Business Park) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Project Flash (Summit View Business Park) 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 Project Flash (Summit View Business Park), and how big is it?
Crusoe is the operator on record. We hold 4 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Flash (Summit View Business Park)," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/crusoe-project-flash-franklin-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/crusoe-project-flash-franklin-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.Crusoe linked to potential data center project in Franklin County, Virginia · Data Center Dynamics (via Internet Archive) · retrieved September 9, 2026
- 2."Project Flash" initiative shut down by Franklin County Board of Supervisors · Smith Mountain Eagle · retrieved September 9, 2026
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