Data centers in Caroline County, Virginia

Board voted 4-2 to rezone about 916 acres for the Carmel Technology and Enterprise Center (Luck Stone, RZ-06-2024). The revised proffers prohibit data centers, per the Planning Commission item text. Not a data center project; listed because a large Reedy Church tract was rezoned with data centers excluded.

DEQ's list of issued air permits for data centers shows registration 74341-1 (Article 6 - mNSR) issued 2026-07-02 to Clean Arc Data Centers - VA-1 Campus in Caroline County. The list gives no project size or status; the entry says nothing about whether the facility is built.

Board agenda listed a performance agreement between Caroline County, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority and Amazon Data Services, Inc. under the Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Program (consent agenda item G), and a special exception request SPEX-08-2025 (SAC III Acquisition Co., 95.4 acres, phased data center campus) deferred at the applicant's request. [Unverified: the vote outcome on the consent item was not found.]

County planning page (undated as retrieved Nov 1, 2026) lists three data center applications as pending with no hearing date: Thornberry Data Center Campus RZ-03-2025 (657 acres), ADP Ladysmith Data Hub RZ-02-2025 and SPEX-06-2025 (140.38 acres), and Bull Church Data Center RZ-04-2024.