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The company is withdrawing applications for a conditional use permit and other zoning actions for the project, which was to include 7.2 million square feet of data center space on 1,370 acres in the county, next to its Northeast Creek Reservoir between the towns of Louisa and Mineral, about 40 miles west of Richmond.

“Given the most recent feedback at the June 11, 2025, Louisa County Community meeting, we believe it is best at this juncture to reevaluate the proposed project,� Amazon’s attorney, Charles Payne, wrote to the county’s senior planner, Tom Egeland.

Amazon has said it wants to build two data center campuses in the county, and its first, on 153 acres near the North Anna nuclear power station, is under construction.

Amazon has said it wants to invest $11 billion in Louisa County by 2040.

“That commitment remains unchanged,� Payne said.

“We have heard the community and appreciate the desire for more robust input on any future projects,� he said. “We are confident that this is a goal that can be accomplished.�

The site Amazon proposed for its now-canceled project is served by a high voltage transmission line, and the company proposed building seven electric substations to handle the electricity the facility would need.

It proposed a 200-foot setback from residential areas for the data center buildings, a 250-foot setback for the substations and a 300-foot setback from farmland.

The site is surrounded by mostly wooded, vacant land that is zoned for agricultural uses. There are some scattered residential uses to the northern border of the site, and the reservoir to the south.

Last month, Colorado-based EdgeCore Digitak Infrastructure said it plans to build a 3.9 million-square-foot data center campus on a 697-acre tract at the Shannon Hill Business Park next to Interstate 64.

The data centers on this campus would draw more than 1,100 megawatts of electricity from the grid — enough to power 275,000 homes.

Virginia has become a major global hub for data centers, with Northern Virginia hosting more than anywhere else.

But because of the size of data centers — EdgeCore's campus would house facilities taking up as much space as 68 football fields — they have increasingly been raising concerns about their impact on nearby residents and on natural and cultural resources.

Environmentalists, meanwhile, worry that data centers' enormous energy demands will derail Virginia's goals to end greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by forcing utilities to build fossil-fuel plants and keep existing plants running.