Sites / VA / Powhatan

Province Group Data Center Campus (Page Road)

Status: permitted · Confidence: medium · Announced: 2024-08-19

Facts

Signal notes

Newport Equities LLC / Province Group (also filed as LC West LLC, originally "Powhatan Technology Park") — all mapped to province-group. Status permitted: Board approved rezoning + CUP (75-ft buildings). Approval path: Aug 2024 original proposal deferred by Powhatan Planning Commission; initial 119.9-acre rezoning/CUP approved 3-2 on 2024-10-28; further 61.8 acres approved unanimously 2025-10-29, creating a 181-acre campus. Planning Commission recommended denial both times (utility-proffer concerns, later resolved). land_acres 181 = 61.8 (2025) + 119.9-120 (2024). building_sqft conflict: county (Oct 2025) says "2-million-square-foot"; Virginia Business (2024) cites 1.525M sqft filed across three data centers (plus six support structures). County (government, newer) figure used; minority claim noted. investment_usd 2.7B per county; developer estimate $3B.

Sources

• Powhatan Board Approves Rezoning for Data Center Development on Page Road — County of Powhatan, Virginia (press release), 2025-10-29
• Powhatan approves $2.7B data center campus — Virginia Business, 2024-10-30
• Proposals for two data center projects in Richmond, Virginia, deferred by local officials — Data Center Dynamics, 2024-08-19

Signals

Raw observations behind this record (8): sig-20260705-province-acres, sig-20260705-province-investment, sig-20260705-province-mw, sig-20260705-province-sqft-county, sig-20260705-province-sqft-vb, sig-20260705-province-status-approved, sig-20260705-province-status-deferred, sig-20260705-province-status-initial

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