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Virginia data center water reporting and use.

13 sourced items are documented. Reporting duties, permitted quantities and reported use retain separate meanings.

Enacted, Historical record. Checked: October 27, 2026.

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Google Sterling 2025 water reporting
Google reported location totals only, potentially covering multiple facilities. These are not all operators in a city or state, approved supply allocations or an individual building reading.
Google. Source: Publication date not stated. Checked: October 23, 2026.
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Google Ashburn 2025 water reporting
Google reported location totals only, potentially covering multiple facilities. These are not all operators in a city or state, approved supply allocations or an individual building reading.
Google. Source: Publication date not stated. Checked: October 23, 2026.
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Google Bristow 2025 water reporting
Google reported location totals only, potentially covering multiple facilities. These are not all operators in a city or state, approved supply allocations or an individual building reading.
Google. Source: Publication date not stated. Checked: October 23, 2026.
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Google Leesburg 2025 water reporting
Google reported location totals only, potentially covering multiple facilities. These are not all operators in a city or state, approved supply allocations or an individual building reading.
Google. Source: Publication date not stated. Checked: October 23, 2026.
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Meta Henrico 2024 water withdrawal
Meta reported named facility withdrawal for 2024. The label may cover a campus; it is not an independent Atlas building measurement, statewide demand, approved allocation or future water requirement. Original megaliter unit and unknown site consumption remain explicit.
Meta Platforms. Source: Publication date not stated. Checked: October 23, 2026.
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Virginia supplier water reporting with a January 2027 start
Adopted supplier category reporting. Statutory effectiveness, regulatory effectiveness and the explicit future reporting start remain separate. Reporting duties do not establish actual water use or universal public facility disclosure.
Virginia General Assembly. Source: Publication date not stated. Checked: October 23, 2026.
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Virginia October report water response gaps
An actual published report with incomplete water provider responses. It contributes reporting context, not a new zero water observation, operator report or complete state total.
Virginia State Corporation Commission. Source: October 1, 2026. Checked: October 23, 2026.
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Microsoft Ashburn fiscal 2025 water withdrawal
Operator reported whole megaliter withdrawal at a metropolitan location containing owned datacenters. Fiscal period, estimated data possibility, exclusions and absence of Deloitte review are explicit. No exact building join or net consumption calculation.
Microsoft. Source: Publication date not stated. Checked: October 24, 2026.
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Microsoft Boydton fiscal 2025 water withdrawal
Operator reported whole megaliter withdrawal at a metropolitan location containing owned datacenters. Fiscal period, estimated data possibility, exclusions and absence of Deloitte review are explicit. No exact building join or net consumption calculation.
Microsoft. Source: Publication date not stated. Checked: October 24, 2026.
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Microsoft Manassas fiscal 2025 water withdrawal
Operator reported whole megaliter withdrawal at a metropolitan location containing owned datacenters. Fiscal period, estimated data possibility, exclusions and absence of Deloitte review are explicit. No exact building join or net consumption calculation.
Microsoft. Source: Publication date not stated. Checked: October 24, 2026.
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Helio conditional water capacity and infrastructure funding agreement
Publicly hosted primary agreement PDF1through8,10,13through16 reviewed; signatures13/14 visually checked. Other clauses and exhibits not fully reviewed; no exact parcel, Google affiliation or Native association established.
Western Virginia Water Authority and Helio Capital LLC; publicly hosted copy. Source: October 14, 2025. Checked: October 25, 2026.
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Virginia historical thermoelectric water context
Historical2015 state thermoelectric power estimates, including fresh and saline water. Not current2026 conditions, data center facility use, drinking water demand, permit allocation or proof of a data center effect. Withdrawal, total water use including deliveries and reclaimed wastewater, and consumptive use are distinct. Consumption may exceed withdrawal because other supplied water is included. Independent rounding is retained; no facility joins or per kWh allocation.
U.S. Geological Survey. Source: Publication date not stated. Checked: October 26, 2026.
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Virginia historical2020 modeled thermoelectric water context
USGS2008-2020 thermoelectric water-use reanalysis,published annual output filtered to2020:modeled annual-mean million gallons/day,not observed current2026 water use.958plant-year rows cover48conterminous states,not a complete facility census or data center inventory. Withdrawals include fresh/saline rows;consumption at coastal saline plants was not modeled.54Once-through saline source zero-consumption placeholders are excluded from consumption sums,not measured zero. State best/lower/upper figures are calculated sums of source plant model estimates and thermodynamic plausibility limits,not statewide statistical confidence intervals. Do not compare directly with2015county compilation as a measured trend;methods differ. HUC12 IDs and county labels do not certify parcels;README says public model-input coordinates use interpolated HUC12 centroids,not precise plant locations. No source coordinates adopted,site joins,permit/sustainable availability/datacenter allocation or causal inference.
U.S. Geological Survey. Source: October 31, 2023. Checked: October 27, 2026.
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