Project dossier · Louisa County (Shannon Hill), Virginia

EdgeCore Shannon Hill campus Approved

697 acres purchased in the Shannon Hill Regional Business Park for a 3.9M sq ft, 1.1+ GW campus - a $17B+ investment announced June 2025, phased over several years. No construction start date or tenants disclosed at announcement. Part of a data-center surge in a small county that already hosts an AWS campus.

Key facts

Operator
EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure
Size
1,100 MW
Acres
697
Location
Louisa County (Shannon Hill), Virginia
First proposed
2025-06-01
Stage today
Approved

Source
read 2026-08-07

What to do next

Next step: Approved — pivot from stopping it to a binding CBA: enforceable caps on noise, water and cost, plus a community benefit.

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What has happened so far (24 events)

  • 2019-02-19vote
    Louisa County Board of Supervisors voted 6-1 to authorize a $2,620,000 budget supplement (Resolution RES-2019-40) for the purchase of approximately 700 acres in the Shannon Hill area for a regional business park, having previously voted to exercise purchase options on January 22, 2019. · source
  • 2019-03-01filing
    Louisa County completed its purchase of 684 acres at the Shannon Hill exit off I-64 for $2.6 million to establish the Shannon Hill Regional Business Park, as reported in March 2019. · source
  • 2022-01-13incentive
    Virginia awarded Louisa County $300,000 through the Virginia Business Ready Sites Program for site readiness at the Shannon Hill Regional Business Park. · source
  • 2023-01-23incentive
    Louisa County received an $11.5 million state grant to bring water infrastructure to the 700-acre Shannon Hill Regional Business Park, the third-largest such grant awarded by the state. · source
  • 2024-04-01permit
    The James River Water Authority received a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in April 2024, following an April 8 Memorandum of Agreement, clearing construction of a raw water intake, pump station, and four-mile pipeline on the James River that will serve Shannon Hill Regional Business Park among other areas. · source
  • 2024-09-04financing
    EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure completed a $1.9 billion equity raise led by Partners Group, its third financing transaction of 2024 bringing total capital raised that year to over $4 billion, to support hyperscale data center development across its portfolio including Virginia campuses. · source
  • 2025-06-01news
    EdgeCore announced the land purchase (697 ac, Shannon Hill Regional Business Park) and $17B+ phased campus plan in June 2025; construction timing and tenants undisclosed. · source
  • 2025-06-25announcement
    EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure announced the purchase of 697 acres at Shannon Hill Regional Business Park for $42 million and plans for a 1.1+ GW, 3.9 million sq ft data center campus with $17 billion total investment. · source
  • 2025-06-25announcement
    Governor Youngkin praised the EdgeCore deal; a spokesperson confirmed the commonwealth provided no state incentives, though Virginia had previously awarded $300,000 in site-readiness funds in 2022. · source
  • 2025-06-25coverage
    Bisnow reported Louisa County had invested approximately $29.5 million in utilities infrastructure at Shannon Hill using $13.6 million in grants and $17 million in debt, with the county purchasing the land in 2018 for $2.6 million and rezoning it in 2019 for technology uses. · source
  • 2025-06-25coverage
    CBS19 reported EdgeCore plans a closed-loop air-cooled system with minimal water usage and significant landscape buffers; Rappahannock Electric Cooperative and its affiliate Hyperscale Energy Services will provide power. · source
  • 2025-06-25coverage
    Data Center Dynamics reported EdgeCore's Louisa County campus would total 1.1 GW across 3.1 million square feet and six buildings on 697 acres, with power provided by Rappahannock Electric Cooperative. · source
  • 2025-06-26coverage
    Information Charlottesville reported the Shannon Hill sale closed for $42 million; IDA Chairman Dustin Madison stated the announcement marks a realization of the park's full benefits; proceeds will pay down county debt early. · source
  • 2025-06-30coverage
    Local newsletter reported that EdgeCore's Shannon Hill campus will draw water from the James River via a pipeline expected mid-2026, not from the local Northeast Creek Reservoir, differentiating it from the concurrent AWS proposal. · source
  • 2025-07-14protest
    Louisa County residents mobilized against data center expansion with a Facebook group of nearly 500 members, a petition with over 660 signatures, and yard signs reading 'Don't Loudoun my Louisa'; opposition focused on the concurrent AWS proposal but reflected broader concern about all data center development in the county including EdgeCore. · source
  • 2025-10-27coverage
    Engage Louisa reported that EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure plans to develop a third data center campus at Shannon Hill Regional Business Park, in the context of the Board of Supervisors unanimously approving a separate performance agreement with AWS. · source
  • 2025-12-01vote
    Louisa County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a performance agreement with EdgeCore providing annual performance grants of 15% of real and business personal property tax revenue, capped at $15 million total, with payments from 2027 through 2041. · source
  • 2025-12-01coverage
    The Piedmont Environmental Council listed the December 1 Louisa County Board of Supervisors meeting agenda as including a resolution to approve a local performance agreement with EdgeCore, the data center company developing Shannon Hill Regional Business Park. · source
  • 2025-12-02coverage
    GovTech reported Louisa County sold Shannon Hill to EdgeCore and proceeded with the project despite resident concerns, contrasting it with Amazon's separate withdrawal under stronger community opposition. · source
  • 2026-01-13announcement
    EdgeCore reported entering 2026 with 1.8 GW of capacity delivered or under development across six markets including Louisa County, with $5.9 billion in equity and debt committed and $16.1 billion planned for future development. · source
  • 2026-04-06financing
    Louisa County Board of Supervisors moved to appropriate $33 million from Shannon Hill sale proceeds for water and wastewater infrastructure upgrades -- $11.5 million for a clarifier at Ferncliff Water Treatment Plant and $21.5 million for New Bridge Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion -- paying cash rather than issuing new debt. · source
  • 2026-06-22coverage
    Louisa County Supervisor Manning Woodward stated EdgeCore will operate behind-the-meter power generation at Shannon Hill rather than drawing from the grid; gas-fired generation is the near-term option, with small modular reactors described as far off. · source
  • 2026-06-29incentive
    Virginia's state budget deal preserved the data center sales tax exemption through 2035, while introducing a new energy consumption tax of 1.1 cents per kilowatt-hour capped at $600 million annually; Louisa County Board Chair Duane Adams praised the decision as maintaining the state's commitment to the industry. · source
  • 2026-08-01permit
    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District published public notice NAO-2025-00089 / MRC-2026-1381 for EdgeCore Louisa Phase 2, proposing fill of 4.20 acres of wetlands and 6,302 linear feet of stream for three data center buildings and substations on 187 acres, filed via EDI Louisa 1, LLC. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (2 filed · 11 places to look)

Permits already on file (2)

Filings we have a source for — the record, not a place to look for one.

  • 2026-08-01
    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District published public notice NAO-2025-00089 / MRC-2026-1381 for EdgeCore Louisa Phase 2, proposing fill of 4.20 acres of wetlands and 6,302 linear feet of stream for three data center buildings and substations on 187 acres, filed via EDI Louisa 1, LLC. · source
  • 2024-04-01
    The James River Water Authority received a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in April 2024, following an April 8 Memorandum of Agreement, clearing construction of a raw water intake, pump station, and four-mile pipeline on the James River that will serve Shannon Hill Regional Business Park among other areas. · source

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.

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.

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 37.870, -78.080 — 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.

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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “EdgeCore Shannon Hill campus”, aigridwatch.com/projects/edgecore-louisa-county-va, retrieved 2026-10-11.

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