Louisa County revenue committee outlines allocations tied to projected data center and reactor revenues

The Louisa County Board of Supervisors’ revenue work group presented a recommended allocation framework on June 2 that would automatically split future new revenues among priorities such as planned capital, roads, rural preservation and tax rebates.

The committee, which supervisors Rachel Jones and Ray Woodward represented, described the presentation as the product of six months of work intended “to take care of the citizens of Louisa County,” and emphasized the recommendations are a working document to be refined with public input. “This is an accumulation of the past 6 months of work, and our primary mission has been, to take care of the citizens of Louisa County,” Supervisor Jones said.

Why it matters: The county’s revenue forecast assumes new revenues from large-scale private investment and possible public utility projects—specifically an assumed 25 data centers (cited as “Amazon Web Services” in staff remarks) and one modular reactor—could produce sizable, recurring tax and real‑estate receipts. The committee presented allocations so any incoming…