Page-verified permit transcription

QTS Richmond Data Center

Henrico County, Virginia

QA status VerifiedRelease dated July 29, 2026

EVIDENCE NOTE

What the public record says

A manually verified transcription of equipment groups and permit limits stated in Virginia DEQ permit 51232-16, with one-based PDF page citations. Permitted terms do not establish actual operation or emissions.

Primary sourceVirginia DEQ permit document

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

Open original source ↗

Summary fields cite p. 3 ↗, p. 4 ↗.

What this record does not establish

The source confirms the document and its stated fields. This profile does not infer actual emissions, compliance history, operating status, facility capacity or environmental impact where those facts are not established by the cited document.

How to read the status

Issued means the agency granted the permit subject to its conditions. It does not mean every permitted unit is operating, that maximum permitted emissions occur, or that later amendments do not exist.

VERIFIED PERMIT TERMS

Equipment and limits,
kept separate from actual use.

This is a conservative transcription of reviewed permit sections, not an exhaustive legal digest. Page numbers refer to the one-based position in the linked PDF. Blank values are not zero.

Permitted equipment

15 document-defined equipment groups. Counts and per-unit ratings are transcribed; combined capacity is not calculated.

ReferenceEquipment / modelCount / ratingFuel / controlsStated operating fieldSource
EG77-EG79engine-generator setCaterpillar · 3516C3 units2500 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗
EG4-EG5engine-generator setCaterpillar · 3516 DITA2 units1825 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗
EG6-EG7engine-generator setCaterpillar · 3516C TA2 units2000 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗
EG8-EG17engine-generator setCaterpillar · 3516C10 units2500 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗
EG18-EG34engine-generator setCaterpillar · 3516C17 units2500 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗
EG35-EG43engine-generator setMTU · 20V4000 DS25009 units2500 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗
EG44-EG77engine-generator setCaterpillar · 3516C33 units2500 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗
EG80-EG112engine-generator setMTU · 16V4000 DS225033 units2250 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗
EG113-EG145engine-generator setMTU · 16V4000 DS2250 or equivalent33 units2250 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗
EG146-EG244engine-generator setCaterpillar or MTU · 3516C or 16V4000 DS2250 or equivalent99 unitsNo reliable per-unit rating transcribeddiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗Permit gives configuration-dependent per-unit ratings of 2,500 kW or 2,250 kW; left blank rather than choosing.
EG245; EG281; EG317; EG353; EG392; EG431; EG470; EG509emergency engine-generator setCaterpillar · C328 units1250 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 5 ↗
EG246-EG280; EG282-EG316; EG318-EG352; EG354-EG391; EG393-EG430; EG432-EG469; EG471-EG508; EG510-EG547emergency engine-generator setCaterpillar · 3516C295 units2500 kW eachdiesel—See operating-scope table—p. 6 ↗
CT01-CT04two-cell water cooling towerSPX Marley4 unitsNo reliable per-unit rating transcribed—liquid drift limited to 0.005%See operating-scope table—p. 6 ↗, p. 7 ↗
CT05-CT09two-cell water cooling towerEVAPCO5 unitsNo reliable per-unit rating transcribed—liquid drift limited to 0.001%See operating-scope table—p. 6 ↗, p. 7 ↗
CT10-CT11two-cell water cooling towerBAC2 unitsNo reliable per-unit rating transcribed—liquid drift limited to 0.005%See operating-scope table—p. 6 ↗, p. 7 ↗

Operating scope

Authorized hours, time windows or an explicit finding that no numeric annual-hour cap was located in the reviewed sections.

ReferenceLimitBasisSource

Permitted emission limits

3 pollutant, unit-group and limit rows. These are permit terms, not measured or actual emissions.

Inspect 3 transcribed limit rows
ReferencePollutantLimitBasis / scopeSource
EG35-EG43NOx as NO2—48.6 lb/hrhourlyper unit—p. 13 ↗
EG80-EG112NOx as NO2—44.4 lb/hrhourlyper unit—p. 14 ↗
EG113-EG244NOx as NO2—48.1 lb/hrhourlyper unit—p. 15 ↗

DOCUMENT HISTORY

What this document says it changes

permit amendment

Explicitly supersedes the document dated 2023-09-01.

p. 3 ↗, p. 4 ↗

QA NOTES

Ambiguity stays visible

  • Official PDF cover/permit heading checked in the manual second pass.
  • Value transcribed from official permit equipment/condition table; no totals calculated.
  • Permit gives configuration-dependent per-unit ratings of 2,500 kW or 2,250 kW; left blank rather than choosing. — Value transcribed from official permit equipment/condition table; no totals calculated.
  • Directly stated permitted limit; not an actual emissions value.
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