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What a SAVRN AI factory returns to your community, per kilowatt.

Enter your project size and your county's rates. Every number recalculates live from the audited SAVRN Community Economic Impact Model. Defaults reproduce the model's Northern Virginia baseline: $622 per kW per year.

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Community economic value, once energized
$622 / kW / year

At 52.3 MW in Northern Virginia, that is $32.5 million every year and $693.8 million over a 15-year life.

$32.5M
Community value / year
$693.8M
15-yr total value (NPV)
$397.4M
One-time construction value
$20.5M
Public revenue / yr · ~256 teachers
72
Permanent operations jobs
3,236
Construction job-years
$185.0M
Construction wages into the region
$591M
Private capital, no public subsidy

What the $622/kW is made of, per year

The floor holds. Public revenue is anchored to statutory tax rates, so the annual value barely moves across the conservative and aggressive scenarios. That is what makes a community-benefit claim survive a public hearing.

The mirror: what a delay costs

$587,680
Combined loss per day the factory sits unenergized (developer + community)
$214.5M
Lost over a single year of interconnection delay
17.1%→8.8%
Project return after a six-month delay, the point a project relocates instead of waiting

Method: reproduces the audited SAVRN Data Center Community Economic Impact Model (2026-08-19), which corrected ten coefficients downward and uses a conservative Base case built for adversarial testimony. Value per kilowatt is linear per megawatt. Companion analysis: The Suppressed Economic Driver. Figures are planning estimates, not a forecast of a specific site.

Frequently asked questions

How much economic value does a data center create for its community?
At the Northern Virginia baseline, each kilowatt of AI compute returns about $622 per year in community economic value once energized. For a 52.3 MW facility that is about $32.5 million a year and $693.8 million over a 15-year life. The exact figure depends on local property and income tax rates, which you can enter in the calculator.
How do I calculate a data center's economic impact on my county?
Enter the project size in megawatts and your county's property tax rate, state income tax rate, and prevailing wages. The calculator applies the audited SAVRN Community Economic Impact Model and returns the value per kilowatt, annual and 15-year community value, public revenue, permanent and construction jobs, and the daily cost of an interconnection delay.
What is the community economic value per kilowatt of a data center?
About $622 per kilowatt per year at the Northern Virginia Base case. Most of that value is public revenue anchored to statutory tax rates, so it barely moves between the conservative and aggressive multiplier scenarios, which is what makes the figure defensible in a public hearing.
How many jobs does a data center create?
A 52.3 MW facility supports about 72 permanent operations jobs, at two to three times the local average wage, plus roughly 3,236 construction job-years during the build. Both scale linearly per megawatt.
What does a data center delay cost a community?
For a 52.3 MW facility, the combined developer and community loss is about $587,680 per day it sits unenergized. A six-month interconnection delay drops the modeled project return from 17.1 percent to 8.8 percent, the point at which a project relocates instead of waiting.