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Vapid_Ingenue t1_j0ty436 wrote

Reply to comment by WoodwickVonRazzle in Facebook parent Meta adding to Henrico footprint with code-named ‘Project Tropical’ data center - Richmond BizSense by Charlesinrichmond

I'm on RVA 5/6. The clearing you're talking about, is it across the street from craft parking on Portugee Rd? If so, that's actually QTS expansion. Meta hasn't really started clearing for 7/8 yet

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WoodwickVonRazzle t1_j0uo8tw wrote

That was the one I was speaking of, are they doing more over there? I see they also cleared the lot on technology/memorial, wasn’t sure what was going in on that site.

There’s another two entrances into the woods that were made a couple weeks ago further down the road toward Elko on the right that to my understanding is about where project tropical will be located. You’d probably know more from the grapevine around there

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Vapid_Ingenue t1_j0upc6n wrote

QTS also has another few buildings going up. They're putting in another substation as well

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Vapid_Ingenue t1_j0upi7f wrote

And you're correct that the two small openings with the dirt mounds will be Project Tropical

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WoodwickVonRazzle t1_j0us7yx wrote

Hopefully this means my power never goes out for long 🤞🏼

I wonder if they have plans for tropical to make sure any water runoff is controlled, that dip in the road down there floods frequently and would be hellish frozen

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Vapid_Ingenue t1_j0utbz1 wrote

The engineers have detailed plans to preserve the wetlands. They've been working on that behind RVA 5/6 for maybe six months now. With the busses running along that route all day long I'm sure they're going to control runoff 👍

I can't assure your house won't be out of power for long, but the generators cost about $1.5M a day to run, so I'm guessing it will be a priority to restore power as quickly as possible

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