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Wilderness Crossing

Locust Grove, Virginia, United StatesProposed
Evidence
Headline capacity
Not established in published records
Updated
Oct 28, 2026

Wilderness Crossing is a large mixed-use master-plan area in Orange County, Virginia that includes an Amazon Web Services data center development component. County approval records support the land-use framework, but the tracked 1.5 GW figure is not established in those records as operating or contracted IT capacity. Exact data center parcel boundaries, building count, Dominion delivery, water, permits, incentives and construction schedule require further public-record reconciliation.

Capacity

Operating IT capacity: Not established in published records

A missing figure does not mean zero. Planned, utility and generation figures are not operating IT capacity.

Development

Approved master plan; data-center phase definition pendingAnnounced or preconstruction

Wilderness Crossing is a large mixed-use master-plan area in Orange County, Virginia that includes an Amazon Web Services data center development component. County approval records support the land-use framework, but the tracked 1.5 GW figure is not established in those records as operating or contracted IT capacity. The available public sources do not establish a single project-scoped capacity figure. Exact data center parcel boundaries, building count, Dominion delivery, water, permits, incentives and construction schedule require further public-record reconciliation.

Participants

Amazon Web Services

Developer

Sources by role
Developer (1)

Site & development

Location context

Actual

Wilderness Crossing | Locust Grove | Virginia | US

Source

Location context

Actual

Wilderness Crossing | Locust Grove | Virginia | US

Source

Development model

Actual

Mixed use master plan with data center component

Source

Additional project facts

Lifecycle status

Actual

Proposed

Source

Capacity basis

Actual

1,500 MW future full build site capacity; not measured operating IT load.

Source

Lifecycle status

Actual

Proposed

Source

Operator association

Actual

Amazon Web Services

Source

Capacity status

Actual

1.5 GW not verified in county approval records

Source

Infrastructure & permits

Technical details (1)
Electric grid

Unknown

1,500 MW

Secondary estimate; headline withheld.

Other · Issued

Wilderness Crossing

Orange County, Virginia

Aug 28, 2026

Sources (1)

Public-source research. Plans may change. See Evidence for sources and qualifications.

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