CoreWeave · Chester, Virginia

CoreWeave Chester VA

114MW

The power of 93,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Jan 2024. Projected to reach 197 MW by Jun 2027.

Capital cost
$3.1B
Chips
H100, B200
Users
OpenAI (unconfirmed)
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Power over time

facility power · 6 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 18 Sep 2023 — Conversion starts at CTP-01 (Building 1). The data center was formerly owned by Capital One, now leased to CoreWeave. Source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/chirisa-secures-200-million-loan-to-fit-out-virginia-data-center-for-coreweave/
  2. 31 Jan 2024 25 MW Building 1's second data hall scheduled to come online this month.
  3. 30 Apr 2024 38 MW Building 1 is scheduled to be fully online by this point, so we count the full 27 MW as operational here.
  4. 22 Jan 2025 38 MW Satellite imagery shows Building 1 complete, with Building 2's yard work and early construction visible. Building 3 hasn't started yet, since the old building is still there.
  5. 20 May 2026 114 MW Based on satellite imagery, Building 3 has cleared its land and is beginning construction. Building 2 is operational judging from the colored motion artifacts on the cooling tower fans.
  6. 30 Jun 2027 · projected 197 MW Buildings 3 is estimated complete by the end of Q1 2027, based on the current PowerHouse schedule. Added another three months to account for commissioning and server installation.

Every step Epoch planned here on 2 Sep 2026 is still on plan. Planned against reached

Gas made 41% of the power on this site's grid

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

PJM Interconnection, LLC PJM · balancing authority

  1. Gas 41%
  2. Coal 17%
  3. Nuclear 31%
  4. Wind 4%
  5. Solar 3%
  6. Hydro 2%
  7. Other 3%

The grid of the utilities that serve Chesterfield County, VA. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

Owners plan 1.2 GW of new power in Chesterfield County, mostly gas

power plants in Chesterfield County · EIA-860M, September 2026
  1. Chesterfield Gas · 1.0 GW · Jun 2029 · proposed · Virginia Electric & Power Co
  2. Chester Solar Technology Park, LLC Solar · 160 MW · Oct 2027 · proposed · Chester Solar Technology Park, LLC
  3. Petersburg - VA 0224 (Murphy) Solar · 3 MW · Dec 2027 · being built · CVE US VA Petersburg 224 LLC

In service in Chesterfield County today: 504 MW. Since January 2023: 25 MW added, 1.1 GW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI
  1. Chirisa secures $200 million loan to fit out VA Data center for CoreWeave
  2. Blue Owl-led JV secures $750m to build out data centers for CoreWeave
  3. Chirisa offers former Capital One data center in Virginia to hyperscalers

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of Chester. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.