id: brandy-station-culpeper
name: Brandy Station Data Center
status: cancelled
location:
  country: US
  state: VA
  county: Culpeper
  locality: Brandy Station
metrics:
  investment_usd: 12000000000
first_seen: "2026-07-07"
last_updated: "2026-07-07"
confidence: low
sources:
  - url: https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report
    title: Data Center Watch report
    publisher: Data Center Watch
    date: "2024-06"
    note: Investment figure and denial; single low-confidence source.
signals:
  - sig-20260706-brandy-station-investment
  - sig-20260706-brandy-station-status
notes: >-
  Cancelled: reported unanimously denied by the Culpeper County Planning
  Commission in June 2024 over rural preservation concerns. Operator "Culpeper
  Acquisitions" has no operators.yml entry — needs one before an operator id can
  be set. Support is a single low-confidence source (Data Center Watch); the
  $12B figure is thus low-confidence. Place resolved to county-level (Culpeper);
  Brandy Station recorded as locality from the project name.