Wheelabrator Portsmouth
BrownfieldPortsmouth, Portsmouth City, Virginia · Wheelabrator Environmental Systems
Wheelabrator Portsmouth is a former waste site in Portsmouth, Portsmouth City, Virginia, retired 2024-07-01. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 60 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.
Former use & capacity
Grid hookup & remediation
Site conditions & market — Portsmouth city
County-level intelligence for this site's location — the power economics, water, hazard, connectivity, and workforce a developer screens before ever visiting. Assembled from FEMA NRI, BLS QCEW, FCC BDC, USGS water-use, and EIA.
Market & workforce
Power economics & interconnection
Water & cooling
Hazard, flood & connectivity
County-level context — address-level utility offerings and flood zoning vary within the county. Confirm site-specific service with the utility and a Phase I ESA.
Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites
A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near Wheelabrator Portsmouth — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.
| Site | Former use | Legacy MW | Distance | Cleanup status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesapeake | coal plant | 761 | 2.6 mi | — |
Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.
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Nearby datacenter candidate sites
Scored candidate sites near Wheelabrator Portsmouth, ranked by DC Readiness.
| Site | Type | State | County | Voltage | Capacity | Queue wait | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YADKIN | Substation-Adjacent | VA | Chesapeake city | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 3.8 yrs | 69.9 |
| FENTRESS | Substation-Adjacent | VA | Chesapeake city | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 3.8 yrs | 69.6 |
| CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CENTER | Substation-Adjacent | VA | Chesapeake city | 230 kV | 300 MW | 3.8 yrs | 69.5 |
| SUFFOLK | Substation-Adjacent | VA | Suffolk city | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 3.8 yrs | 67.5 |
| INDUSTRIAL PARK | Substation-Adjacent | VA | Norfolk city | 230 kV | 300 MW | 3.8 yrs | 67.3 |
| OZ Norfolk | Greenfield | VA | Norfolk | — | — | 3.1 yrs | 67.2 |
| UNKNOWN115111 | Substation-Adjacent | VA | Portsmouth city | 230 kV | 300 MW | 3.8 yrs | 67.0 |
| OZ Norfolk | Greenfield | VA | Norfolk | — | — | 3.1 yrs | 67.0 |
Nearby internet exchanges
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- Globalinx Virginia Beach CLSVirginia Beach, VA · 1 networks
- Lumen NorfolkNorfolk, VA · 0 networks
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Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.
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