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Google Project Loch

Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia · All 53 Google sites · Every Google case on our tracker

PermittedSupportedAI confirmedRecord updated August 27, 2026

Google Project Loch is a permitted data center in Midlothian, Virginia (Chesterfield County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at announced August 28, 2025, 340 acres. It has documented public support and no documented opposition.

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Facility record

Permitted

Operator
Google
Facility type
Data center, AI use confirmed
Location
Midlothian, Chesterfield County, VA
Coordinates
37.4540, -77.7100
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
340 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
August 28, 2025
Utility
Dominion Energy Virginia
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Not established
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
Not established from a public source
Public subsidy
30-year fixed property-tax-rate agreement (Chesterfield County; dollar value undisclosed under VA law)
Community reception
Supported
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.

  1. August 27, 2026
    Permitted
    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. Source: VPM
  2. May 14, 2026
    Proposed
    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
  3. August 28, 2025
    Proposed
    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
  4. June 6, 2025
    Proposed
    Chesterfield Board of Supervisors approved rezoning of ~350 acres at 750 Watkins Centre Pkwy (Watkins Centre South) for data-center use; 30-year fixed tax agreement approved

Opposition and litigation at this site

Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Google Project Loch in Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of August 27, 2026. Rezoning filed by the Chesterfield EDA for a confidential project; Board of Supervisors approved June 6 2025; county called Google the 'Rolls-Royce of data center operators.' No organized opposition documented.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: supported means local officials or residents have expressed public support and no opposition is documented.

Rezoning filed by the Chesterfield EDA for a confidential project; Board of Supervisors approved June 6 2025; county called Google the 'Rolls-Royce of data center operators.' No organized opposition documented.

Power and water

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.

Site adjacent to Tomahawk Creek (Chesapeake Bay watershed). Army Corps permit (May 2026) covers ~5 acres of wetlands and 2,828 ft of stream channels; proposed mitigation ~11 acres of replacement wetlands + 34.2 acres preserved.

Public money on the record

ProgramAmountGranted byYear
30-year fixed property-tax-rate agreement (Chesterfield County; dollar value undisclosed under VA law)Not establishedNot established

Notes on the record

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. Virginia law bars per-company subsidy value disclosure, so the 30-year fixed tax agreement is recorded as a program label with no dollar value. Coordinates are an approximate site centroid (address-derived, not GPS-verified).

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
  • 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.
Permanent jobs promised
The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.

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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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Google Project Loch data center in Midlothian?

Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Google Project Loch in Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of August 27, 2026. Rezoning filed by the Chesterfield EDA for a confidential project; Board of Supervisors approved June 6 2025; county called Google the 'Rolls-Royce of data center operators.' No organized opposition documented.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Google Project Loch data center?

The reception note on this record refers to a court proceeding. Read it in full under opposition and litigation above, and check the sources at the foot of the page for the filing itself.

How much water does Google Project Loch use?

No water withdrawal figure for Google Project Loch is on record here. Cooling is recorded as unknown, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Google Project Loch, and how big is it?

Google is the operator on record. We hold 53 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 340 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Google Project Loch," updated August 27, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-loch-midlothian-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/google-loch-midlothian-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.Google files for data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 7, 2026
  2. 2.Chesterfield scores a Google trifecta: ties to 3 sites across the county · Richmond BizSense · retrieved July 7, 2026
  3. 3.In Google, Chesterfield landed the Rolls-Royce of data center operators · Chesterfield County, VA · retrieved July 7, 2026
  4. 4.Chesterfield County approves two data center developments · Greater Richmond Partnership · retrieved July 7, 2026
  5. 5.Chesterfield EDA secures zoning approval for two data center projects · Richmond BizSense · retrieved July 7, 2026
  6. 6.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
  7. 7.Google's $9B bet on a trio of Chesterfield data center campuses · VPM · retrieved August 27, 2026

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