Data centers in Culpeper County, Virginia

Piedmont Environmental Council posted a clip headlined 'Culpeper County Board reaches consensus: no more data centers' (Oct 16, 2026). [Unverified: only the headline was read; the underlying report and any Board action were not opened.]

DEQ's list of issued air permits for data centers shows registration 74348-1 (Article 6-mNSR) issued 2026-08-05 to DataBank Data Center Culpeper LLC in Culpeper County. The list gives no project size or status; the entry says nothing about whether the facility is built.

PEC reported Dominion proposed a $253.7 million transmission upgrade in Culpeper, Orange and Fauquier counties, mainly to serve data centers in the Culpeper Technology Zone, with SCC written comments accepted until Oct 7 (2025) (PEC alert dated Sept 17, 2025). [Unverified: SCC docket not opened.]

Board passed a zoning text amendment requiring a conditional use permit for all new data centers on industrially zoned land outside the Culpeper Technology Zone (Piedmont Environmental Council email alert dated Sept 17, 2025).

Board approved rezoning of 69.19 acres from Rural to Light Industrial for Red Ace Capital's two-building, 1.16 million sq ft data center campus on Keyser Road, 4-3 (DCD citing the Culpeper Star-Exponent). (Source article dated Jul 8, 2024.)