Manufacturing Datacenter Sites in Virginia
At a glance
Active or former manufacturing facilities. These sites usually have substantial electrical service, water, and skilled-trades labor pools already in place — strong fundamentals for retrofit-to-datacenter conversion.
Top manufacturing sites in Virginia
How does Virginia compare with other states for manufacturing sites?
With 938 sites, Virginia ranks 3rd of the 3 states that have any manufacturing candidate sites. Indiana leads with 5,274. Nationally, manufacturing sites average 52.3/100 DC Readiness, below the 53.0 average across all site types. Across every site type, Virginia averages 52.2, the 37th-highest of 52 states, and its candidate sites face an average interconnection-queue wait of 5.1 years.
Where are the highest-scoring manufacturing sites in Virginia?
The top 25 range from 54.8 to 54.3 on the 0–100 DC Readiness Score. They are concentrated in BRISTOL (CITY) (15), WASHINGTON (7) and LEE (3). By grid region, 25 are in SERC.
County pages: BRISTOL (CITY) · WASHINGTON · LEE
What power, fiber and flood exposure do these manufacturing sites have?
Their counties have a median of 4 fixed fiber broadband providers in FCC data. The median distance to the nearest internet exchange facility is 95 km. The median interconnection-queue wait in their markets is 5.1 years. None of the 2 with a mapped FEMA flood zone sits in a high-risk (A or V) zone.
Frequently asked questions
How many manufacturing datacenter sites are in Virginia?
GridCensus catalogs 938 manufacturing datacenter candidate sites in Virginia, 12% of the national total for this type (3rd of 3 states).
What is a manufacturing datacenter site?
Active or former manufacturing facilities. These sites usually have substantial electrical service, water, and skilled-trades labor pools already in place — strong fundamentals for retrofit-to-datacenter conversion.
What is the best manufacturing datacenter site in Virginia?
By DC Readiness Score, DEROYAL SURGICAL, INC. (SURGICAL AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURING) in LEE ranks first at 54.8/100, followed by DEROYAL INDUSTRIES, INC., THREE-D PLT. (SURGICAL APPLIANCE AND SUPPLIES MANUFACTURING) in LEE at 54.8.
Which Virginia counties have the best manufacturing sites?
The top 25 manufacturing sites in Virginia are concentrated in BRISTOL (CITY) (15), WASHINGTON (7) and LEE (3).
How does Virginia score for datacenters overall?
All 5,871 scored sites in Virginia average 52.2/100 DC Readiness, the 37th-highest of 52 states, against a national average of 53.0.
More on manufacturing sites and Virginia
- All datacenter sites in Virginia· 5,871 sites
- Manufacturing datacenter sites nationwide· 7,657 sites
- Shovel-Ready sites in Virginia· 1,752 sites
- Former Mine sites in Virginia· 1,614 sites
- Substation-Adjacent sites in Virginia· 733 sites
- Industrial sites in Virginia· 412 sites
- Greenfield sites in Virginia· 409 sites
- Brownfield sites in Virginia· 12 sites
Manufacturing sites in other states
Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
About this data
Source: GridCensus composite of HIFLD transmission and substation data, EIA, FEMA National Risk Index, FCC broadband data, PeeringDB and ISO interconnection queues, as published November 12, 2026 — GridCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: GridCensus, “Manufacturing datacenter sites in Virginia”, https://gridcensus.com/site-types/manufacturing/virginia (data as of November 12, 2026).
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