Cochran Tech Park
Loudoun County, VA
Source: Primary source
Cochran Tech Park is a proposed data center in Loudoun County, VA.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 16, 2026
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Loudoun, Virginia
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Hearing timeline
- DecisionPlanning Commission Public Hearing
Tue, May 26, 2026
Planning Commission Public Hearing: data-center item — Golden Substation permit and special exception applications in Sterling for utility project.
- DecisionBoard of Supervisors Business Meeting
Tue, Apr 21, 2026
Board of Supervisors Business Meeting: Zoning amendment and special exceptions for Cochran Tech Park.
- DecisionBoard of Supervisors Business Meeting
Tue, Apr 21, 2026
Board of Supervisors Business Meeting: data-center item — Zoning amendment for Concorde Industrial Park in Sterling.
Withdrawn — applicant withdrew Concorde Industrial Park item; removed from agenda.
- DecisionBoard of Supervisors Business Meeting and Public Hearing
Tue, Mar 17, 2026
Board of Supervisors Business Meeting and Public Hearing: data-center item — Zoning Map Amendment for Concorde Industrial Park in Sterling; rezoning 17.2 acres.
- DecisionBoard of Supervisors Business MeetingDeferred
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
Board of Supervisors Business Meeting: Zoning map amendment and special exceptions for Cochran Tech Park, Leesburg.
Deferred — Cochran Tech Park granted one final redeferral to a future meeting.
- DecisionBoard of Supervisors Business Meeting
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
Board of Supervisors Business Meeting: data-center item — Comprehensive Plan Amendment for countywide electrical infrastructure provisions.
- DecisionBoard of Supervisors Public Hearing
Wed, Feb 11, 2026
Board of Supervisors Public Hearing: data-center item — Zoning map amendment and special exceptions for Concorde Industrial Park in Sterling
- DecisionPlanning Commission Public Hearing
Wed, Jan 28, 2026
Planning Commission Public Hearing: data-center item — Concorde Industrial Park zoning map amendment and special exceptions in Sterling.
- DecisionBoard of Supervisors Business MeetingDeferred
Wed, Jan 21, 2026
Board of Supervisors Business Meeting: Zoning Map Amendment and Special Exceptions for Cochran Tech Park rezoning and site plan approvals.
Deferred at applicant's request to a future business meeting for action.
- DecisionBoard of Supervisors Business Meeting
Wed, Jan 21, 2026
Board of Supervisors Business Meeting: data-center item — Comprehensive Plan Amendment for housekeeping and clean-up text amendments to 2019 General Plan.
- DecisionBoard of Supervisors Public Hearing
Wed, Jan 14, 2026
Board of Supervisors Public Hearing: data-center item — Countywide comprehensive plan amendment regarding electrical infrastructure.
- Board of Supervisors Business Meeting
Tue, Jan 6, 2026
Board of Supervisors Business Meeting: data-center item — Board Member Initiative: Data Center Informational Fact Sheet (Countywide)
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Overview
source: linkData-center land-use application(s) before Loudoun County, Virginia (status: proposed). Cases: SPEX-2025-0029, SPEX-2025-0054. Source: Loudoun Online Land Applications (LOLA).
In the news
source: Google News- 4 Major Data Center Deals Changing NoVA’s LandscapeNorthern Virginia Magazine· Feb 4, 2026
- Data center ‘gold rush’ pits local officials’ hunt for new revenue against residents’ concernsGeorgia Recorder· Jan 6, 2026
- News | Amazon buys $700 million site in Virginia as data center demand surgesCoStar· Nov 7, 2025
- MSU is state’s only public university growing 10 of past 11 yearsDarkhorse Press· Nov 4, 2025
- Data center event weighs environmental, economic impactsdecaturish.com· Oct 16, 2025
- In a new strategy, energy storage could be used alongside a planned Loudoun County data centerLoudoun Times-Mirror· Oct 2, 2025
In public meetings
Where this facility is discussed in the verbatim record of public government meetings. Captions are auto-generated and uncorrected.
- Board of Supervisors Business MeetingApr 21, 2026
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Read the transcript - Board of Supervisors Business MeetingFeb 18, 2026
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Read the transcript · 4 mentions - Board of Supervisors Business MeetingJan 21, 2026
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Read the transcript · 4 mentions
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
Virginia reported $1B in Data Center Retail Sales and Use Tax Exemption (Va. Code § 58.1-609.3(18)) for FY2024 (Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) / Weldon Cooper Center). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.
Water use
No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
What this site costs the grid
source: PJM RPM auction reportsPJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site sits in PJM's DOM pricing zone, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →
Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, Seldens Landing Elementary in Leesburg, is 0.9 mi from this site (555 students).
Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).
Hearings timeline
No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.