Data centers in the Richmond market

About the Richmond market

The directory lists 33 data centers in the Richmond market, 45th among the 64 markets it covers and 1 percent of all listings in the United States. They are run by 11 operators and sit in only 2 named places: Sandston holds 22 of them, 67 percent of the market, and Richmond itself 8.

One operator shapes this market. QTS has 15 listings, far more than anyone else; Bank of America follows with 3, and every other operator, among them Google, Meta, Iron Mountain and Flexential, has a single site. Colocation sites account for 19 of the records and enterprise facilities for 5.

Few buildings publish size figures here. The only published IT load is Flexential Richmond's 2.8 MW, and Flexential's site is also the larger of the 2 buildings with a published floor area, at 28,594 square feet, ahead of EdgeConneX Richmond.

A sizeable part of the market is still being built. 6 listed facilities are under construction and 4 are planned; 1 is recorded as operational, 1 as closed and 21 carry no status in the data. Most of that is QTS, whose RIC3 DC1 to DC5 buildings are under construction and whose Richmond 2, Richmond 3 and Richmond 5 are planned. Google's Chesterfield County site is also planned. 1 facility holds an Uptime Institute certification, at Tier III.