$3B Data Center Project Kicks Off in NoVa
Snowhawk, Nuveen and Townsend Group are backing this development.
CleanArc Data Centers has commenced construction on a data center campus in Caroline County, Va., its first development in the state. The $3 billion project represents the largest economic investment in the county’s history, Governor Glenn Youngkin said in prepared remarks.
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Snowhawk, as majority investor, together with Nuveen and Townsend Group as minority investors, are backing this development. Snowhawk and Nuveen are also equity investors in Prime Data Centers.
CleanArc’s first data center campus
VA1 will be the company’s first flagship data center. It will include 900 megawatts of grid capacity when completed, with the first 300 megawatts scheduled to come online in the first quarter of 2027. The second 300 megawatts are expected to be delivered in 2030, while the remaining capacity will come online during the 2033-2035 time span.
The initial plans for VA1 called for a 600-megawatt complex to rise on a 126.6-acre site situated along Interstate 95, between Ashburn, Va., and Richmond, Va., within a 650-acre campus with rezoned land for data center use. In October, the company purchased another 87.5 acres of land for this project.
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To be constructed according to land conservation measures, the data center campus will benefit from modular design and off-site manufacturing, delivering factory-tested systems that simplify construction, accelerate deployment and allows faster market entry.
The development will provide robust redundancy for current hyperscale data center demand, while also allowing future scalability. It will include closed-loop systems to minimize water use and sustainability-focused designs that reduce noise and light pollution.
Recent NoVa data center moves
Other data center projects in the area include Newport Equities’ 180-acre campus dubbed Powhatan Technology Park, in Greater Richmond. The developer received rezoning approval for the final piece of land, with plans for a 2 million-square-foot campus, with an initial 365-megawatt deployment.
Recently, Vantage Data Centers expanded its Northern Virginia operations with a $2 billion project close to Fredericksburg. The company broke ground on its fourth campus in the state, bringing the total investment to $8 billion.
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