One of Louisa County’s economic development initiatives has been to invest in infrastructure at county-owned locations in order to attract industry.
On Tuesday, the county announced that the 697-acre Shannon Hill Regional Business Park has been sold to a developer and operator of data centers.
Edgecore Digital Infrastructure will pay $42 million for the site according to an information release. The Arizona-based company is currently building two data center campuses in Ashburn in Northern Virginia.
Louisa County paid $2.6 million for the site in 2018 and rezoned the land a year later for several technology-based purposes including data centers. The county and its Industrial Development Authority invested $29.5 million to bring utilities to the property. That came from $17 million in debt as well as a $13.6 million site-readiness grant from the Virginia Partnership for Economic Development.
“This announcement marks a realization of the park’s full benefits,” said Dustin Madison, Chairman of the Louisa County Industrial Development Authority in a press release. “EdgeCore’s development enables the property’s usage in a manner that minimizes traffic on Shannon Hill Road, conserves water, and generates significant and ongoing revenues which will benefit our citizens.”
The release states that Edgecore will use a closed-loop air-cooled system and claims that it will use less than 0.1 liter per kilowatt hour of energy consumed.
Louisa will put the proceeds to pay off the debt early according to the release.
The release refers to data centers as “tax revenue powerhouses” that can be used to invest in county services.
The permitting process is underway for two data center campuses being built by Amazon Web Services, part of an $11 billion investment announced in late August 2023. The county entered into an $88 million contract with a subsidiary of Faulconer Construction to build the infrastructure for both.
Earlier month, Engage Louisa reported that Amazon has filed for a conditional use permit for a third data center campus. Supervisor Duane Adams will hold a town hall on the matter on June 26 at 6:30 pm in the Alan Jackson Theater, at Louisa County High School at 757 Davis Highway in Mineral.
Before you go: This particular story was first published in the June 25, 2025 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. This is the kind of story that likely should have been published to this site right away as there’s no audio involved. However, that did not happen, but it is okay. This is all practice.
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