Regardless what City Council says – data centers have been in the works solidly since 2018 through the VBDA.
ACA International and Telxius – Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon
2018 April – ACA announces 130,000 sq. ft. data center on 10.2 acres
Amazon AWS IAD – lists online as having a data center at Harpers Road
Globalinx – 150,000 sq. ft., 150 watts per sq. ft.
2018 – started at 10,750 sq. ft.
2022 – 150,000 sq. ft. expansion announced
2026 – $800k from VBDA
PointOne – Two 31,000 total 62,000 sq. ft, “building constructed 15 ft. above sealevel”…?
2019 – 40,000 sq. ft.
Innovation Park – was ‘supposed’ to be biomedical until VBDA gives away land and tax incentives to industrial manufacturing of. . . “everything massive data centers need.”
2022 ASC – produces data center equipment and is the gateway to nearly 1,000 acres of public land.
2025 September – illegal rezoning of public agricultural land to industrial for ASC.
2026 April – VBDA wants 600+ acres adjacent Innovation Park for. . .? Data centers.
2026 May – City Council ‘says’ no “large data centers.” At same meeting “large” is over 100,000 sq. ft. – we already have two approved.
2026 June 9 – VBDA meeting eyeing Mulch Road for 50 acre infrastructure grant from the state for. . . data centers.
The District (Taylor Farms)
2025 May – Timmons Group posts 250 acre data center plan to its website.
2026 – VBDA is soliciting for VB National Golf Course which is directly adjacent Innovation Park.
2026 June 9 – VBDA has their eyes set on 2952 Mulch Landing.
More on this from our Facebook page
- What happened to “no data centers”?
- Council meeting: not a word on the data center ordinance
- Has City Council really stopped data centers?
- Mayor Dyer: “we need industrial land”
- The VBDA and the uprising against data centers
- Debrief on City Council’s data center briefing
- Who is lying to whom about data centers?
- Watch the ITA rezoning
- A 300-acre data center in the works since ASC
- Video: rural land rezoned to industrial (sound familiar?)
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