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Project Sisson

Stafford County, Virginia

ProposedNo reception on recordRecord updated August 27, 2026

Project Sisson is a proposed data center in Virginia (Stafford County), operated by Peterson Companies.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator
Peterson Companies
Facility type
Data center
Location
Stafford County, VA
Coordinates
38.2870, -77.3900 (approximate)
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
Not established from a public source
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
Not established from a public source
Cooling
Not established
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
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. August 27, 2026
    Proposed
    Peterson-linked affiliate Real Estate Pursuits 2 LC has filed a federal wetlands permit application with the Norfolk District of the US Army Corps of Engineers; the development would impact roughly four acres of wetlands or open water. Source: Baxtel

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of August 27, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Project Sisson in Stafford County, 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.

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Power and water

Cooling water for the campus is planned to come from the Little Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant, less than two miles from the development.

Notes on the record

16 two-story data center buildings totalling 3.8 million sq ft plus four substations, off Kings Highway around Albion Lane on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Stafford County. Distinct from the two Stafford records already tracked: the STACK Stafford Technology Campus (the former Peterson site near Stafford Regional Airport, sold to STACK for $302.3M) and Vantage VA4. No MW figure has been published. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the described Kings Highway / Albion Lane area.

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
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
  • Land area
  • How the community has received it
  • 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.
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.
How the community has received it
Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in 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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Project Sisson data center in Stafford County, Virginia?

Nothing on record as of August 27, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Project Sisson in Stafford County, 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 Project Sisson data center?

No lawsuit over Project Sisson appears in the record we track as of August 27, 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 Sisson use?

No water withdrawal figure for Project Sisson 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 Project Sisson, and how big is it?

Peterson Companies is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Sisson," updated August 27, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/peterson-project-sisson-stafford-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/peterson-project-sisson-stafford-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.Peterson: Project Sisson Data Center · Baxtel · retrieved August 27, 2026

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