QTS Richmond 1
Sandston (Henrico County), Henrico County, Virginia
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Tue, 08 Se). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Proposed (inferred)
- Owner
- Likely QTS
- Capacity
- 238 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Henrico County
- State
- Virginia
- Electric utility
- Virginia Electric & Power Co
- Grid operator
- PJM
Location and nearby
QTS Richmond 1 is on record as proposed in Henrico County, Virginia. A record puts its capacity at 238 MW. 62 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 5 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 2.9 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 5.0 mi Under construction 5.1 mi Permitted 5.0 mi Proposed 4.0 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 2.9 mi approximate
Wagner Urban Logistics LLC Data Center
Rejected · Henrico County, VA
- 4.0 mi approximate
Proposed · Henrico County, VA
- 4.0 mi approximate
Proposed · Henrico County, VA
- 5.0 mi approximate
Operating · Henrico County, VA
- 5.0 mi approximate
Operating · Henrico County, VA
- 5.0 mi approximate
Quality Technology Services- RIC3 DC1
Permitted · Henrico County, VA
What is on record
Owner
Likely QTS
A tracker names this operator and cites a source we have not read ourselves, so it is not traced to a record.
What the signal was
-
cited document names the operator
qts
Source cited by AI GridWatch for QTS Richmond 1: https://qtsdatacenters.com/data-centers/richmond-1/ · Aug 14, 2026
- Capacity
- 238 MW from agw
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- Virginia Electric & Power Co
- Also recorded as
- QTS Richmond 2 · QTS Richmond 3
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: operating|; source press
Source cited by AI GridWatch for QTS Richmond 1: https://qtsdatacenters.com/data-centers/richmond-1/
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: operating|; source press
Source cited by AI GridWatch for QTS Richmond 2: https://qtsdatacenters.com/data-centers/richmond-1/
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: under construction|; source press
Source cited by AI GridWatch for QTS Richmond 3: https://q.com/data-centers/richmond-3/
About this data
Evidence
Primary record
A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
1
cited filing. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
6 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for QTS Richmond 1: https://qtsdatacenters.com/data-centers/richmond-1/ US-VA | Context | url=https://qtsdatacenters.com/data-centers/richmond-1/ | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=qts-richmond-1 | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for QTS Richmond 2: https://qtsdatacenters.com/data-centers/richmond-1/ US-VA | Context | url=https://qtsdatacenters.com/data-centers/richmond-1/ | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=qts-richmond-2 | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for QTS Richmond 3: https://q.com/data-centers/richmond-3/ US-VA | Context | url=https://q.com/data-centers/richmond-3/ | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=qts-richmond-3 | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
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