Grow Tomatoes, Not Data Centers
The proposal submitted to Hanover County offers zero protections for Henrico residents
If built as promoted by HHHunt, this facility will be a Hyperscale Data Center designed to support 900 megawatts of power. Fully operational, it would be the 3rd largest in the United States today by megawatts.*
This is an enormous data center with significant water usage, significant pollution, and significant noise. The Voluntary Proffer Statement** received by Hanover County Planning Department on 8/22/25 contains some limited protections for residents of Hanover county.
It makes no mention of Henrico residents.
In January 2026, facing overwhelming community opposition and a unanimous recommendation of denial from the Planning Commission, HH Hunt withdrew their application for Hunting Hawk Technology Park in Hanover.
The New Threat: We proved that when Hanover fights back with facts about water, noise, and zoning, we win. But Hunting Hawk was just one battle. Northern Virginia is full, and the data center industry is aggressively targeting Central and Southern Virginia. Our aquifers, our rural landscapes, and our electric rates are on the menu.
The Mission: We are taking the energy from our local victory statewide. We are joining forces with the Piedmont Environmental Council, the Sierra Club, and others to demand a pause on this explosive growth. Virginia laws must protect our resources, not just developer profits.
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Sign the letter demanding data center reform legislation.
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VISION
We stopped one massive data center in Hanover. Now, Big Tech wants to turn the rest of our farms and forests into the next "Data Center Alley."
The Victory: You may have arrived here looking for information on the 900MW data center campus proposed at the site of the Hunting Hawk Golf Course in Hanover County.
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That project is gone. We made HHHunt withdraw their proposal.
Rebranded as Hunting Hawk Technology Park, HH Hunt is already looking for buyers of the 'large scale data center campus'.
HHHunt has filed plans for a large-scale data center campus called Hunting Hawk Technology Park, located outside Richmond, Virginia. The proposed development spans 400 acres and includes up to 10 buildings totaling approximately 3.9 million square feet.
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The site was previously zoned for residential use but has now been submitted for rezoning to limited industrial, with additional requests for building height exceptions and accessory uses.
Key Figures
400
ACRE CAMPUS
3.9M
SQUARE FEET
62ft
BUILDING HEIGHT
150ft
FROM RESIDENCES
Residential Buffers
100-150 foot buffers from residential property lines, 200 feet from road frontage. (Industry average is 200-500 foot buffers and residents still complain of noise and vibration.)
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All protections for residential property owners identified in the proffer statement refer to Hanover County with no mention of Henrico County.
Noise Attenuation
7AM-7PM Mon-Sat generator testing (one standard generartor operates at 85d. Multiply this by hundreds of generators to be tested. All protections for residential property owners identified in the proffer statement refer to Hanover County with no mention of Henrico County.
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Noise attenuation to ensure conformation to Hanover noise ordinance. How would this apply in Henrico, where there is no noise ordinance?
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Private Water Source
The water source for this proposed data center is Hanover well water. When data centers draw millions of gallons of water per day from wells, they are pulling from the same aquifer (underground water supply) that local residents use for their private wells. This can lower the water table, causing nearby residential or agricultural wells to run dry or require expensive re-drilling to greater depths.
The Chickahominy River headwaters could be impacted, affecting wetlands and the downriver municipal water supply (Hampton Roads).
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And how do we stop it?