CoreWeave Chester VA
Chip types: H100,B200. Epoch AI estimates ~82 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- CoreWeave
- Owner
- CoreWeave
- Tenant
- OpenAI
- Size
- 82 MW
- Location
- Chester (Chesterfield County), Virginia
- Stage today
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: Already operating — the leverage now is enforcement: noise and water conditions, tax revenue tracking, and any expansion filing, which reopens the record.
What has happened so far (12 events)
- 2023-06-05announcement
Chirisa Technology Parks offers the former Capital One data center in Virginia to hyperscaler tenants, per Data Center Dynamics. · source - 2023-09-19financing
Chirisa secures a $200 million loan to fit out the Virginia data center for CoreWeave, per Data Center Dynamics. · source - 2024-01-23announcement
Chirisa announces 150 MW of expansion across U.S. sites including a 300 MW substation and up to 1 million sq ft at the former Capital One campus in Meadowville Technology Park, Chesterfield County; Chesterfield Board Chairman Jim Holland praises the campus transformation. · source - 2024-04-10announcement
Chirisa plans a 20 MW data center in Chesterfield County, Virginia, per Data Center Dynamics. · source - 2024-07-08announcement
Chirisa announces senior hires to lead hyperscale build-to-suit delivery, citing its CTP-01 data center in Chesterfield, VA and a pipeline exceeding 600 MW under development. · source - 2024-08-29financing
Blue Owl Capital, Chirisa, and PowerHouse Data Centers announce the first phase of a $5 billion joint venture with CoreWeave as anchor customer for an initial 120 MW on Chirisa's 350-acre campus near Richmond, Virginia, for 2025-2026 delivery. · source - 2024-09-27announcement
Chirisa and PowerHouse plan a 1 GW data center campus outside Richmond, Virginia, per Data Center Dynamics. · source - 2024-12-16financing
A Societe Generale-led syndicate closes a $600 million construction loan for a 50 MW build-to-suit data center preleased to CoreWeave at the 300-plus-acre Chirisa Technology Park near Richmond; the project broke ground in 2024. · source - 2025-08-20operational
A fire is contained inside the Chirisa data center in Chesterfield County; WRIC ABC 8News reports questions remain about the incident. · source - 2025-09-08operational
A second fire in three weeks occurs at the Chirisa data center in Chesterfield County, Virginia, per Data Center Dynamics. · source - 2025-09-12operational
After four fires in 12 months at its Chesterfield data center, Chirisa blames defective batteries as the root cause, per The Progress Index. · source - 2026-01-06construction
Chirisa and American Real Estate Partners plan two new 100 MW data center buildings (380,000 sq ft total) at 1600 Digital Drive on the former Cartograf site in Chesterfield County, acquired for $16.5 million; CoreWeave will operate inside the data halls, with the first building targeted for late 2027. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Virginia DEQThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- Search Virginia DEQ for this projectsearchThis state publishes no searchable permit database, so a written records request to the agency is the reliable route. Use this search only to find the right office.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Chester (Chesterfield County) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Chester (Chesterfield County) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- PJM Interconnection (Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- Virginia State Corporation Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 37.350, -77.390 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Around here
- Virginia briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Virginia
- QTS Richmond 1 — Sandston (Henrico County), 12 mi
- QTS Richmond 2 — Sandston (Henrico County), 12 mi
- QTS Richmond 3 — Sandston (Henrico County), 12 mi Under construction
- Mountain Road Technology Park — Hanover County, 29 mi Denied
- EdgeCore Shannon Hill campus — Louisa County (Shannon Hill), 52 mi Approved
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “CoreWeave Chester VA”, aigridwatch.com/projects/coreweave-chester-va, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.
Part of the data center project tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0 (JSON · CSV).