Proposed-site record
Google's Botetourt campus has county zoning and August 2026 grading authorization, with fall 2026 grading expected. County and utility materials disclose planned water and wastewater reservations and attributed infrastructure/incentive terms, but not energized or data-center IT-load capacity.
This panel tracks what the facility is for without assuming that every project is AI training, inference, or cloud capacity.
No source-backed workload, customer, hardware, or training/inference allocation is attached to this record yet.
Workload classification remains unknown in the reviewed record.Source leads point to attached records or reporting. They still need field-level review before being treated as verified evidence.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: Botetourt County reports a $14 million land purchase, a $4 million commitment to county initiatives over five years, discounted land pricing, and a tax-bill stabilization grant. These are attributed project commitments/incentives, not verified public spending; the $14 million dataset cost is not reclassified as public funding.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: Botetourt County says Google must connect to Western Virginia Water Authority water and sewer, with a Day 1 reservation of no more than 2,000,000 gallons/day of water and 570,000 gallons/day of wastewater capacity. These are planned utility reservations, not measured consumption or final operating use; the county says Google will fund project infrastructure and share of broader improvements.
Source reviewed September 9, 2026: Botetourt County says grading plans and a land-disturbance permit were issued in August 2026, with on-site grading expected in fall 2026 and the first structure expected fit for use in 2028. The dataset's hyperscale label remains unclassified; no reviewed source establishes requested, approved, energized, generation, or data-center IT-load capacity.
No fuel-cell or Bloom Energy source is attached to this project yet.
No NDA reported
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These links are the current public trail for this record. Treat broad dataset links as leads; local documents and reporting carry more weight.