Diode Ventures pulled out of a proposed data center campus at Charles City County’s Roxbury Technology Park.

The company’s plan for the crook-shaped assemblage of land included around six buildable areas for data centers and a 100-acre conservation area, across the entire 515-acre area.

The plots nestled between Charles City Road, Roxbury Road and Old Union Road are an attractive spot for this type of project given that an electrical transmission line already dissects the center of the site, and the county is close to worldwide fiber networks.

Kansas City-based Diode said it notified the Board of Supervisors on Aug. 18 that it was withdrawing its applications for the project.

“Despite the County Planning Commission’s support of the project earlier this year, we made the decision to s

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