Henrico County, Virginia, adopted a data-center zoning exclusion on June 1, 2025. Its status in this snapshot is enacted.
The record reads: "The Henrico County Board of Supervisors adopted the Data Center Comprehensive Plan Amendment on June 10, 2025, incorporated into the Vision 2026 Comprehensive Plan. As of January 2025, all data center construction requires a provisional… (datacentertracker.org)."
Details
| Action | Class | Status | Date | MW threshold | Scope | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoning exclusion | restriction | enacted | June 1, 2025 | county-wide | datacentertracker.org |
Jurisdiction type: county. County: Henrico County. Dataset: datacentertracker. Snapshot August 15, 2026; documented actions, not a census.
Virginia context
Virginia has 29 documented local actions across 27 jurisdictions in this snapshot. At the state level, the state has a tax action (enacted, June 30, 2026), the state has a ratepayer-protection law (enacted), Dominion Energy territory has a large-load tariff (enacted, July 31, 2026), and Dominion Energy (GS-5) territory has a large-load tariff (enacted, November 25, 2025).
A town that says no to a data center gives up local tax revenue, not jobs: one large campus pays $2M to $90M a year depending on the tax regime, against roughly 50 permanent jobs. The parent piece prices it and lists the conditions that beat a ban.