Data Center Registry

Iron Horse Data Center Campus

Hanover County, Virginia

ProposedContestedRecord updated October 14, 2026

Iron Horse Data Center Campus is a proposed data center in Virginia (Hanover County), operated by WestDulles Properties. The public record puts it at 180 acres. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: WestDulles Properties
Facility type: Data center
Location: 10171 E. Patrick Henry Road, Hanover County, VA
Coordinates: 37.7620, -77.4400 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: 180 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Not established from a public source
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: Contested
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.

June 18, 2026
Proposed
Hanover Planning Commission voted unanimously in mid-June 2026 to defer consideration until July 16 at the developer's request. Latest iteration of a zoning application filed in early 2025, after a similar project on the site was rejected by supervisors the prior year. Source: Richmond BizSense

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Iron Horse Data Center Campus in Hanover County, Virginia is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Most speakers opposed it over water, electricity and traffic.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.

Most speakers opposed it over water, electricity and traffic. The Planning Commission recommended approval 5-2 on Aug 20, 2026, and the Board of Supervisors decision is pending.

Source: WWBT 12 On Your Side

Power and water

Applicant announced at the Aug 20, 2026 Planning Commission meeting a switch to closed-loop cooling to reduce daily water use. No volume was given.

Notes on the record

Zoning sought for data center facilities on 78 acres (rezoning from mixed use to limited industrial, plus a height waiver to 75 feet) within an overall 180-acre campus straddling the Hanover-Ashland line; the Ashland portion was approved by town council in 2024. LLCs tied to WestDulles own the campus properties. The land area recorded is the overall 180-acre campus, not the 78-acre rezoning request. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the cited street address.

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
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.
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.

Hanover Technology Park · Tract4 mi · Under construction · 2.4 GW
Mountain Road Technology Park · Tract7 mi · Cancelled · 900 MW · Opposed
Flexential Richmond (RIC01/02) · Richmond · Flexential8 mi · Operating · 2.8 MW
Thornberry Data Center Campus · Ruther Glen · Thornberry, LLC10 mi · Proposed
CleanArc VA1 · Ruther Glen · CleanArc Data Centers12 mi · Under construction · 900 MW · Mixed reception
Hunting Hawk Technology Park · Glen Allen · HHHunt12 mi · Cancelled · 900 MW · Opposed
Iron Mountain White Oak Technology Park Campus · Henrico · Iron Mountain14 mi · Proposed · 200 MW
Tuckahoe Technology Park · Tract14 mi · Proposed · 900 MW · In litigation

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Iron Horse Data Center Campus in Hanover County, Virginia?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Iron Horse Data Center Campus?

No lawsuit over Iron Horse Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of October 14, 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 Iron Horse Data Center Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Iron Horse 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 Iron Horse Data Center Campus, and how big is it?

WestDulles Properties is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 180 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Iron Horse Data Center Campus," updated October 14, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/westdulles-iron-horse-hanover-va.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/westdulles-iron-horse-hanover-va, retrieved October 29, 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.One data center project pulled and another delayed in Hanover, as supervisors reinstitute equipment tax (archived) · Richmond BizSense · retrieved September 9, 2026
2.Iron Horse data center proposal deferred in Hanover County · WWBT NBC12 · retrieved August 27, 2026
3.Latest Iron Horse data center proposal teed up for Hanover Planning Commission review · Richmond BizSense · retrieved October 14, 2026
4.Iron Horse data center proposal gets planning commission's backing despite public opposition · WWBT 12 On Your Side · retrieved October 14, 2026

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