Sites / VA / Chesterfield
Google Project Peanut
Status: announced · Confidence: high · Announced: 2025-08-28
Facts
| Operator | Google (hyperscaler) |
|---|---|
| Location | 2700 Bermuda Hundred Rd, Chesterfield, VA |
| Building area | 855000 sq ft |
| Buildings | 3 |
| Land | 307 acres |
| First recorded | 2026-07-05 |
| Last updated | 2026-07-05 |
Signal notes
Site bought via Peanut LLC (a Google alias) for $18.1M in 2020; ~300-acre site, WTVR gives 307 acres (used here). Three buildings; DCD ~855,000 sqft (~285,000 each), WTVR ~856,000 sqft — agree within rounding. investment_usd omitted: the widely-cited $9B is Google's total Virginia investment through 2026 (also Loudoun/Prince William), not a site-specific figure, which was not disclosed. Status held at announced: county said construction to begin by end of 2025 with an 18-24 month build, but no fetch-verified source confirms groundbreaking despite the Nov 2025 site-plan filing.
Sources
- Google to invest $9bn in Virginia data centers, plans new campus in Chesterfield County — Data Center Dynamics, 2025-08-28
- Google details plans for Project Peanut data center development outside Richmond, Virginia — Data Center Dynamics, 2025-11-12
- New details emerge as Google files Chesterfield data center plan — WTVR CBS 6, 2025-11-11
- In Google, Chesterfield landed the 'Rolls-Royce of data center operators' — Chesterfield County government, 2025-08-28
Signals
Raw observations behind this record (6):
sig-20260705-peanut-acres,
sig-20260705-peanut-investment,
sig-20260705-peanut-location,
sig-20260705-peanut-sqft-dcd,
sig-20260705-peanut-sqft-wtvr,
sig-20260705-peanut-status
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