Emerald Lake Estates Data Center

Status: cancelled · Confidence: medium

Facts

Location	Chesapeake, VA
Building area	350000 sq ft
Land	22.6 acres
First recorded	2026-07-07
Last updated	2026-07-07

Signal notes

Cancelled: Chesapeake Planning Commission voted 6-1 against the data center on 2025-05-15 (recommended for denial / blocked at commission). No operator or developer named in signals — none set. Chesapeake is an independent city, so locality is used and no county is recorded. Single good source (DataCenterDynamics) → medium confidence. Acreage reported as approximate (~22.6) in source.

Sources

Proposed data center blocked by planning authority in Chesapeake, Virginia — DataCenterDynamics, 2025-05-15
Acreage, building size, and 6-1 denial vote.

Signals

Raw observations behind this record (3): sig-20260706-chesapeake-emerald-lake-acres, sig-20260706-chesapeake-emerald-lake-sqft, sig-20260706-chesapeake-emerald-lake-status

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