Data centers in Fauquier County, VA
Everything on file with the regulator, added up. Every figure links to the filing it came from.
Ranked 5 of 14 counties.
Fauquier County holds 521 permitted backup generators across 4 sites. The median tracked county with any generator data has 248.
Counties with permitted generator counts Groundwork has read from permit documents. Only Virginia publishes permits in a form that makes this countable today, so this ranking is Virginia-only — not a claim that no county elsewhere is denser.
What this does — and doesn't — mean.
These are emergency backup generators. They are permitted to run during grid outages and for routine testing — typically tens of hours a year, not continuously. A permit is a ceiling on what a site may emit, not a measurement of what it does emit.
A permit also is not a building. An issued permit establishes approval; it does not establish that anything is built, energised or running.
None of the 4 sites here that Groundwork could locate sits in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area.
No single permit discloses the 521 generators permitted in this county. That number exists only because 4 separately-published filings were added together. Each one, read alone, looks routine.
Every tracked site in Fauquier County.
| Site | Operator | Permits | Generators | NOx t/yr | Flood zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | Microsoft | 1 | 500 | — | Zone X |
| Amazon Data Services - DCA-51 | Amazon | 1 | 16 | — | Zone X |
| Data Center Vint Hill LLC | — | 1 | 5 | 87.88 | Zone X |
| Remington Technology Park Limited Partnership | — | 1 | — | 18.24 | Zone X |
2 operators of record · 1 of 4 located sites draw from a basin WRI rates high or extremely high for water stress.
Virginia is the only state that publishes a data-center-specific air permit list, with the issuance document for every permit. That is why Virginia pages carry permit counts, generator counts and permitted NOx, and most other states do not.
- VA DEQ — Issued Air Permits for Data Centers — in use. 201 permits, each with its issuance PDF, read for address, equipment and permitted emissions.
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