Data centers in Russell County, VA
Everything on file with the regulator, added up. Every figure links to the filing it came from.
1 permitted facilities.
These facilities hold active air permits in EPA's national registry. Groundwork has not yet read VA's permit documents, so generator counts and permitted emissions show as pending here — unlike Virginia, where every figure is read from the permit itself.
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.
No single permit discloses the total permitted in this county. That number exists only because 1 separately-published filings were added together. Each one, read alone, looks routine.
Every tracked site in Russell County.
| Site | Operator | Permits | Generators | NOx t/yr | Flood zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | Northrop Grumman | 1 | — | — | Pending |
1 operator of record.
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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