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NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus

Petersburg, Virginia

PermittedNo reception on recordRecord updated September 9, 2026

NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus is a permitted data center in Petersburg, Virginia, operated by NuVu Real Estate. The public record puts it at announced January 2026, 300 MW planned, 75 acres, a reported $1.1 billion investment.

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Facility record

Permitted

Operator
NuVu Real Estate
Facility type
Data center
Location
2588 County Drive, Petersburg, VA
Coordinates
37.1930, -77.3760 (approximate)
Power capacity
300 MW planned
Land
75 acres
Investment
$1.1 billion
Announced
January 2026
Utility
Dominion Energy
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Closed loop
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
No reception on record
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. February 2026
    Permitted
    Received the first site plan approval for a data center in Petersburg in February 2026. No rezoning was required, the site's M-1 Light Industrial zoning permits data centers by right under a 2024 code change. As of late June 2026 no land disturbance permit had been applied for. Source: Richmond BizSense

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus in Petersburg, Virginia appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

If you live near this site and something is happening that this page does not show, that is worth telling us. Send us the document and it goes in the record with the source attached. For sites where opposition is already established, see every contested site we track.

Power and water

Developer says additional power would come via a new substation connecting to Dominion Energy's grid, plus unspecified 'clean energy' sources.

Developer states the campus would use a closed-loop water system recycling water within the property, not drawing on public water.

Notes on the record

Three-building campus on a 75-acre undeveloped site between I-95 and County Drive, in a federal opportunity zone. An LLC tied to NuVu purchased the site in November 2025 for $4.12 million. Details came from Petersburg city documents released under FOIA. The live publisher page is bot-walled, so the cited source is the Wayback Machine capture actually retrieved. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the cited street address, not a parcel-confirmed point.

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.

  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
  • How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
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.
How the community has received it
Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.

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 NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus in Petersburg?

Nothing on record as of September 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus in Petersburg, Virginia appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus?

No lawsuit over NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus 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 NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, 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 NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus, and how big is it?

NuVu Real Estate is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 300 MW. The site is recorded at 75 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "NuVu County Drive Data Center Campus," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/nuvu-county-drive-petersburg-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/nuvu-county-drive-petersburg-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.Documents reveal details on several data center projects in Petersburg's pipeline (archived) · Richmond BizSense · retrieved August 27, 2026
  2. 2.Multiple data centers planned for Petersburg; documents shed light on new details · WTVR CBS 6 · retrieved August 27, 2026
  3. 3.Documents reveal details on several data center projects in Petersburg's pipeline · Richmond BizSense (via Internet Archive) · retrieved September 9, 2026

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