Chesterfield County looks poised — perhaps in less than two years — to become home to 1,500 acres of Google data centers, as the tech company makes a $9 billion investment in data center “campuses” in three locations across the county.
The first campus announced last year, Project Peanut, is slated to go into Chester on Bermuda Hundred Road. Its zoning is currently under review by the county. Once construction starts, data centers generally take between 18 and 24 months to build.
The second site, called Project Skye, is to be built on Watkins Center Parkway in Midlothian. Skye is slated to go online by 2028, with expansion continuing over the next six years. And the third center, Project Loch, is slated for Moseley Road, west of state Route 288 and south of Midlothian Turnpike. The construction timeline for Project Loch depends on permitting…