Google has shared details of its planned "Project Skye" data center campus in Chesterfield County, Virginia.In a filing with the US Army Corps of Engineers, further information about the campus has been unveiled.According to the filing, Project Skye will sit on land south of Genito Road, east of Moseley Road, and north of Duval Road. The property spans 887.7 acres.The company is aiming to develop five data center buildings on the site, along with three substations.Other works will include parking, roads, utilities, and stormwater management facilities.Chesterfield County sits just southwest of Richmond, towards the central-eastern portion of Virginia. Google first announced plans to develop in Chesterfield in 2025 as part of a $9 billion investment program in Virginia.That Google has been pursuing the data center campus has been known since at least November 2025. Elsewhere in the county, Google is developing Project Loch on land near Midlothian on land west of Route 288 and south of Route 60, between Otterdale Road and Old Hundred Road, and Project Peanut near the Meadowville Technology Park outside Richmond.The company also has sites across the rest of the state.Google operates one cloud region in Virginia that launched in 2017. After buying land in the county in 2017, it launched its first self-built facilities in the Old Dominion in 2019. A second facility in Loudoun County launched in 2021, and a third in Prince William County in 2023.In March 2024, a Google-linked company, Sharpless Enterprises, got approval for an 181-acre data center campus in Bristow, Virginia. In June 2025, the company bought land in Virginia’s Botetourt County, west of the city of Lynchburg, near the border between Virginia and West Virginia.
Details revealed for Google's Project Skye data center campus in Chesterfield County, Virginia
Company files with the US Army Corps of Engineers
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