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Google Chesterfield Data Center Campus (Project Peanut)

Google Chesterfield Data Center Campus (Project Peanut)

Planned
Probable

Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)

300+ acre site at 2700 Bermuda Hundred Rd adjacent to Meadowville Technology Park, eastern Chesterfield County, VA; coordinates approximate

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

71.5 /100
71.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

85 /100
85/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

70 /100
70/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Google Chesterfield Data Center Campus (Project Peanut) Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4).
Capital capital commitment +30 Google (investor) investor role committed $9,000,000,000 (capex undisclosed — coverage unverifiable).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Chesterfield Data Center Campus (Project Peanut) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Google Chesterfield Data Center Campus (Project Peanut) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Google Chesterfield Data Center Campus (Project Peanut) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-08-27).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Groundbreaking

    Expected
    1 revision

    Groundbreaking · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google
Developer
Google
Investor
100% $9.0B
Google
Operator
Google
Owner
Dominion Virginia Power (Dominion Energy)
Power Supplier

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. WTVR · Aug 27, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/google-chesterfield-data-center-aug-27-2025

  2. WRIC · backs: expected date

    https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/google-advancing-project-peanut/

  3. Richmond BizSense · Nov 11, 2025 · backs: status

    https://richmondbizsense.com/2025/11/11/google-files-plans-for-first-data-center-facilities-in-eastern-chesterfield/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Richmond BizSense · relevance 0.90

  2. · Virginia Economic Development Partnership · relevance 0.70

  3. · WTVR · relevance 0.90

  4. DCD · relevance 0.90