Project dossier · Gainesville, Virginia

NTT VA11 Gainesville Operating

96MW/300,000 sq ft facility (VA11) as first phase of a planned 336MW campus, due live early 2027; part of $10B+ NTT US buildout.

Key facts

Operator: NTT Global Data Centers
Size: 336 MW
Location: Gainesville, Virginia
Stage today: Operating

Source

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.

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What has happened so far (10 events)

2021-07-01filing
Southview 66 LLC and Gainesville JM LC (with Lerner Enterprises) filed a rezoning and special-use-permit application for the I-66 and U.S. 29 Technology Park, a six-data-center plan on a 102-acre parcel — the site that later became NTT Grove at Gainesville campus. · source
2021-12-07rezoning
Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted 6-2 to approve rezoning and a special-use permit for the I-66/U.S. 29 Technology Park, allowing six data centers outside the county Data Center Opportunity Zone overlay. · source
2022-06-14announcement
NTT Global Data Centers announced it had acquired 103 acres in Gainesville from Lerner Enterprises for $257.4 million to build a 336 MW, four-building, 2-million sq ft campus — its largest in the U.S. · source
2023-06-26filing
Planning documents for NTT Grove at Gainesville campus became public, showing the project needs additional Army Corps of Engineers approval for wetlands impacts; filings hinted Amazon Web Services as the likely anchor tenant. · source
2023-11-01operational
VA10, the first building on NTT Gainesville campus, became operational, delivering roughly 84 MW of critical IT load across about 295,680 sq ft of data floor space. · source
2024-01-10public-comment
Dominion Energy held an informational meeting at Gainesville High School on its proposed Daves Store Substation and transmission line needed to power NTT and AWS Gainesville data centers, drawing resident pushback over visual impact. · source
2024-02-09filing
Dominion Energy submitted its Daves Store transmission line/substation route to the Virginia State Corporation Commission for approval, part of ~1 GW of new power infrastructure needed to serve NTT and AWS Gainesville-area data centers. · source
2024-02-24protest
Coalition to Protect Prince William County publicly criticized the Daves Store transmission line as an extension cord built to serve NTT and Amazon Gainesville data centers at ratepayer expense. · source
2024-07-25coverage
Prince William Times reported on the quarter-mile-long NTT data center building rising along I-66, noting community outrage, resident concerns about noise and electrical infrastructure, and removal of at least 40 acres of trees. · source
2026-03-03financing
NTT DATA announced it secured nearly 115 MW in new capacity commitments across its Gainesville, Chicago, and Sacramento campuses as part of a $10 billion global data-center investment push through 2027; VA11 in Gainesville listed as available for pre-lease at 96 MW. · 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 Gainesville 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 Gainesville 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.
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.

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CoreWeave Chester VA — Chester (Chesterfield County) Operating
Dulles Cloud South — Prince William County Denied

Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “NTT VA11 Gainesville”, aigridwatch.com/projects/ntt-gainesville-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.

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