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Iron Mountain Richmond Campus (RCH-1–RCH-3, Henrico)

Iron Mountain Richmond Campus (RCH-1–RCH-3, Henrico)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)

6110 Technology Creek Drive, White Oak Technology Park, Henrico County — 66 acres directly across Technology Boulevard from QTS's RIC4 site; four buildings planned, >1M sq ft, >200MW campus at full build; RCH-1 (360,000 sq ft / 48MW) first, 18MW by 2027, remainder ~2030. NEW record 2026-07-06 — the project the QTS-RIC4 correction disentangled (Clark's actual Henrico project).

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

53.5 /100
53.5/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

50 /100
50/100

Capital

50 /100
50/100

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 Iron Mountain Richmond Campus (RCH-1–RCH-3, Henrico) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Iron Mountain Richmond Campus (RCH-1–RCH-3, Henrico) Newest capital evidence is 2025-05-21 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Iron Mountain Richmond Campus (RCH-1–RCH-3, Henrico) Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-05-21 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Iron Mountain Richmond Campus (RCH-1–RCH-3, Henrico) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 Iron Mountain Richmond Campus (RCH-1–RCH-3, Henrico) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-05-21 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Iron Mountain Richmond Campus (RCH-1–RCH-3, Henrico) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Iron Mountain Richmond Campus (RCH-1–RCH-3, Henrico) 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 (2025-02-18).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Iron Mountain Richmond Campus (RCH-1–RCH-3, Henrico) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-02-18 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Iron Mountain
Developer
Clark Construction
General Contractor

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. Data Center Frontier · Mar 5, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/55269118/amid-shifting-regional-data-center-policies-iron-mountain-and-dc-blox-both-expand-in-virginias-henrico-county

  2. Data Center Dynamics · May 21, 2025 · backs: status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/iron-mountain-starts-work-on-data-center-campus-near-richmond-virginia/

Signals

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

  1. · Richmond BizSense · relevance 0.90

  2. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.90

  3. · Data Center Frontier · relevance 0.75

  4. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.95

  5. www.businesswire.com · relevance 0.90