Data centers and water
Data Center Water Use in Louisa County, VA
Louisa County, Virginia has 3 mapped data center facilities, including AWS.
Water pressure for new demandHow hard a large new water user, like a data center, would press on this county's water. It blends recent drinking-water compliance, drought, and existing industrial demand. Higher pressure means new demand competes harder with current uses. It is not a judgment about whether one should be built.
Low water pressure
Louisa County has no health violations in the last 5 years, moderate drought, low existing industrial water demand.
- Mapped facilities
- 3
- EPA + OpenStreetMap layers
- Estimated power load
- Not mapped
- No capacity estimate
- Permitted discharge
- 460K gal/day
- Clean Water Act permit fields
- DCWSI national rank
- #1,014
- of 318 scored counties
The operators
How many data centers are in Louisa County?
3 facilities are mapped to Louisa County, Virginia across the EPA and OpenStreetMap layers, run by operators including AWS. Counts reflect mapped footprint, not an operator's total fleet.
- EPA ECHO
AMAZON DATA SERVICES - NORTHEAST CREEK TECH CAMPUS
AWS · LOUISA, VA
- EPA CWA
AMAZON DATA SERVICES - NORTHEAST CREEK TECH CAMPUS
AWS · LOUISA, VA
- EPA ECHO
AMAZON DATA SERVICES INC., IAD 550 LOUISA REB
AWS · MINERAL, VA
Supply versus demand
How much water do Louisa County data centers use?
Exact facility water draw is rarely public. As a screening proxy we compare the Clean Water Act permitted discharge mapped to these facilities against the county's entire industrial water baseline from the USGS 2020 series.
The Clean Water Act permitted discharge from mapped data centers in Louisa County equals about 85% of the county's reported industrial water baseline.
- Mapped facility discharge
- 0.46 Mgal/day
- County industrial baseline
- 0.54 Mgal/day
Model a build
Can Louisa County support more data centers?
On the water-pressure scale, Louisa County sits at 19, below the national median, so new large-load demand has more slack here than in most counties. Size a hypothetical build to see the daily draw against the county industrial baseline.
Data Center Water Budget Calculator
Estimate daily water use for a hypothetical facility in Louisa County.
Your facility would use 148.4% of this county's industrial water baseline. Verify water rights and long-term drought projections before committing.
Based on USGS 2020 water-use data and EPA-standard cooling intensity constants. Not a substitute for site-specific water rights analysis.
In context
How does Louisa County compare nationally?
- DCWSI build-out rank
- #1,014
- of 318 counties with a stress score
- Water pressure vs median
- 0
- national median is 19 of 100
- Share of mapped load
- N/A
- of 166.02 GW mapped nationally
Louisa County is one of 330 US counties with mapped data centers. See the full ranking and the interactive map in the national atlas.
Facility data combines EPA ECHO, EPA Clean Water Act permits, OpenStreetMap, and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas (DOE/PNNL), geocoded to county FIPS. Capacity and water baselines come from IM3 and USGS 2020 water-use data. These are county-level screening figures, not a facility-level water-use audit. Read the full methodology.