Dates follow the cited records; document dates are labeled separately.
August 4, 2025
A staff work list names an earlier data-center correspondence package
Mallory Butler’s work list includes a Data Center Correspondence Package with Derek under reports for executive management and EDA/IDA. This places a staff task before the September donation and easement sequence. It does not supply the package, identify a Dominion instruction or prove that any later action resulted from campaign funding.
August 8, 2025
A draft property list considers Dozier data-center uses; an email asks about excluding its promotion
The draft Dozier row names industrial/data-center development and a tentative RFP after site assemblage and control. Butler’s email asks for confirmation that all properties except Dozier should be promoted with EDGE. The draft and question establish a planning stage, not a final exclusion, issued RFP or approval.
August 13–20, 2025
City staff asks Dominion’s data-center team about site power and feasibility
Butler reports a rapid SWOT task and seeks Dominion’s process, timing and fees. Bryan Smith introduces the City team to Dominion’s data-center practice. On August 18, Wiseman recommends a no-cost High-Level Feasibility Study for 165 Yorktown Road and 100 Dozier Road, typically taking four to six weeks. Butler says the City will request studies soon. The thread supplies no actual submission or completed result, capacity reservation or campaign-related condition.
September 5, 2025; minutes approved October 3
EDA/IDA hears a data-center presentation about utilities and faster permitting
The approved minutes attribute Council interest in data centers and potential tax revenue to Florence Kingston. VEDP’s Vince Barnett presents utility partnerships, zoning and fast-track permitting as ways to attract investment. The slides recommend permit advocates at senior local-government levels. These are attributed statements and recommendations; no reviewed record establishes that Council adopted the recommendations or Dominion requested them.
September 22, 2025 — 6:21–8:15 p.m. EDT
Jones requests data-center materials and acknowledges Archer’s briefing
At 6:21:54 p.m., Archer sends a City white paper, JLARC/VEDP materials and Carleton/Dozier maps to Jones, describing them as supplied at his request. Joy-Hogg, Kingston, Hollingsworth and Conatser are copied. At 8:15:01 p.m., Jones thanks staff and says he will review the material that week. These times are converted from the original UTC headers; both messages fall on September 22 locally. The briefing precedes the September 23 York County easement vote and PAC receipt date, but contains no contribution-for-action agreement.
October 1–2, 2025 — draft speaking notes
EDGE draft notes identify Carleton and Dozier as potential data-center candidates
Perry circulates draft talking points late October 1 for the October 2 Summit. The selected Lee Hall section names both properties as potential data-center candidates and describes other industrial or energy uses. This supplies later prepared marketing language, following the August exclusion question; it does not establish the final spoken wording, a selected developer or confirmed utility capacity.
October 14, 2025
City staff circulates a Dozier Road energy-site draft for edits
Brittany Thompson asks development staff for edits to the HR Alliance Dozier Road RFI. The attachment identifies 19.35 EDA-controlled acres for an energy-production/storage inquiry. Nearby Dominion infrastructure and a possible substation are described as options requiring further coordination, utility confirmation and load assessment. The internal draft is distinct from a final submission, service commitment, data-center approval or the September York County easement.
November 25, 2025
Final rate order quantifies a residential increase for 2026
The SCC approves less revenue than Dominion requested and illustrates an $11.24 monthly increase for a residential customer using 1,000 kWh in 2026, plus $2.36 in 2027. It sets a 9.8% return on equity rather than the requested 10.4%. Actual bills also depend on usage, other charges and the applicable dates; this is not a traced political expense.
December 12, 2025; minutes approved January 9, 2026
EDA/IDA hears SIR digital-infrastructure advice after staff engagement
Approved minutes record John Martin’s presentation and Kingston’s statement that staff engaged SIR. She acknowledges the need for public information. This establishes a documented planning step, not a utility study result or project award.
February 17, 2026
Both senators support a cost-allocation proposal
The Senate passed SB 339, 40–0. Vote SV505 records both Locke (S0067) and Diggs (S0119) voting yes. The House committee continued the bill to the next session on March 5; Senate passage was not enactment.
April 1-28, 2026
Carleton review distinguishes industrial rezoning from data-center permission
April 1 planning minutes record staff saying data centers were not then allowed. Ordinance 8156-26 records April 28 adoption of light-industrial rezoning for 165 and 185 Yorktown Road. This narrows what the earlier inquiry and marketing can establish; a data-center approval is not shown.
May 14, 2026
SB 253 becomes chapter 1124
The enacted law addresses weatherization, underground-line cost recovery, high-load cost allocation and deferred-fuel financing. Clause 3 directs protection against high-load customer subsidies; clause 5 permits a financing petition subject to SCC review. A multi-part law should not be reduced to a single pro- or anti-Dominion label.
June 26-August 14, 2026
SCALE grant and Dominion’s declared commercial interest are publicly described
DHCD announces $154,391 for SCALE. DEIC later names Dominion and SEFC as partners; Dominion’s Nate Frost describes supplier access, communicating purchasing needs and finding technologies. This is a declared business interest in a separate regional program, not a traced benefit bought with campaign money.
July 31, 2026
A specific cost-allocation dispute reaches a final order
The adopted methodology reduces the projected residential Rider T1 increase from $2.90 to $0.94 per month at 1,000 kWh. Dominion supported that methodology but argued for letting existing protections mature before additional direct-assignment changes. The SCC directs a proposed mandatory contribution policy for defined direct-connect facilities, net of a transmission-revenue credit. Higher-order grid costs require further consideration. No campaign contribution is identified as a condition of either position.
August 25, 2026
SCC opens the docket for transmission-policy and coordination filings
The Commission establishes PUR-2026-00131 for the filings directed by the July 31 final order. The 90-day proposed-policy and 120-day coordination-update periods run from July 31, not this later docket-opening date. This is a procedural action, not approval of amended terms.
September 29, 2026
SCC authorizes a specific fuel-cost financing balance
The SCC order finds $931,851,010, including upfront financing costs and subject to adjustment, eligible for securitization and recovery. It cites the 2026 legislation. The financing balance is distinct from utility profit and from VEPGA’s municipal contract increase.
October 21, 2026 release; reviewed October 27
Released register reports cumulative spending under SIR’s broader contract
Row 19132 reports $230,574.42 Expended Total for SIR contract 26-3357-00 and $73,425 in open purchase orders. Row 19205 reports zero expended for 26-3642-01. No reviewed work order attributes those amounts to data-center planning, Dominion or campaign activity.
October 22, 2026 filing; meeting reported as October 19
Dominion says cooperative coordination is underway and opposes formal reopening
The company reports an October 19 meeting and argues that a separate coordinating-party order is unnecessary. It anticipates ongoing discussions and later federal agreement amendments. This is its position; the original ODEC motion and any ruling resolving it were not recovered.
2026 annual report — publication day unverified
Dominion describes planned investment and the regulated earnings mechanism
The report plans approximately $55 billion of Virginia capital spending for 2026–2030, net of Stonepeak reimbursements. Data centers represented 28% of Virginia Power’s 2025 electricity sales. It describes regulated returns on service investments while distinguishing fuel-cost recovery. These are territory-wide plans and financial mechanisms, not Newport News spending or evidence of a campaign bargain.
Undated City webpage; checked October 26, 2026
The City’s current planning statement disclaims a development deal
The City describes its readiness plan as planning without a developer, agreement or commitment, and says hyperscale facilities are infeasible. That current statement concerns the planning process. Earlier inquiries and marketing drafts do not, by themselves, establish an undisclosed deal or falsify it.
September 1, 2026 usage-effective date; filed August 11
The filed tariff supplies a concrete residential transmission component
Rider T1 lists 1.2730 cents per kWh for the named residential schedules. A standard Schedule 1 energy-term example at 1,000 kWh is $12.73. This is the transmission component, not the whole bill, a $12.73 increase, or an identified political-expense charge. The earlier SCC order’s projected $0.94 increase is a different measure. A complete bill and applicable schedule are still needed for an individual customer.
January 1, 2026 effective date; filed December 9, 2025
Line-extension rule identifies the inputs needed to test project cost sharing
For the specified new nonresidential/three-phase service, paragraph D.1 sets an upfront payment for covered costs above four times expected annual revenue excluding fuel. Other paragraphs set facility categories and conditions. A project’s actual cost estimate, revenue allowance, classification, agreement and rate treatment are necessary to determine who bears its costs. These general terms are separate from the unrecovered policy proposal required in PUR-2026-00131 and establish no approved Dozier project or political waiver.