Newsom filed a lawsuit against Amazon in August 2025. The case is now moving forward after a federal judge rejected Amazon’s attempt to dismiss the main private-nuisance claim in July 2026.
He says the construction has brought constant noise, flashing lights, dust, heavy machinery and traffic. He also says his water began turning brown, flooding appeared near his property and vibrations caused cracks in his home. Austin Newsom’s quiet life in Louisa County, Virginia, changed after Amazon began building a huge data centre next to his property. Newsom lives with his wife in a three-bedroom house on Jefferson Highway. His boat repair and detailing business, Central VA Marine, also operates from the property.
Amazon began construction of its Northeast Creek Technology Campus in March 2025. The development is planned across about 374 acres and includes 10 data-centre buildings, three substations, logistics and administrative buildings, stormwater facilities and other infrastructure. One Amazon property listed in the lawsuit at 2694 Jefferson Highway sits directly beside Newsom’s home at 2623 Jefferson Highway. Newsom and Central VA Marine filed their lawsuit in Louisa County Circuit Court on August 11, 2025. On July 10, 2026, US District Judge Jasmine H. Amazon is developing another data-centre campus in Louisa County, while a third proposed project was withdrawn in July 2025 following opposition from local residents.
Because an injunction is a remedy rather than an independent cause of action, the judge dismissed a separate claim seeking temporary injunctive relief.
Newsom says the construction has brought extraordinarily loud noise to his property, including during hours restricted by Louisa County’s noise rules. He also says flashing blue lights from the Amazon site shine almost continuously and are visible from his home at night. His water began intermittently turning brown soon after construction started, according to the lawsuit. Newsom says he had never experienced the problem before and became reluctant to drink the water. Dust and debris from construction have added to the disruption, while Newsom says vibrations from heavy machinery have caused cracks in his house. He told Realtor.com that the proposed power line could affect his property as well.
Another major complaint concerns his water supply. The lawsuit also alleges that excavation changed natural drainage patterns and contributed to flooding near his property. Amazon moved the case to federal court and later asked for the claims to be dismissed. Yoon allowed the main private-nuisance claim to proceed. The judge considered the combined allegations of noise, dust, debris, flashing lights, vibrations, structural cracking, flooding and water problems and found that they were sufficient to plead a potentially substantial and unreasonable interference with the property. The ruling did not end Newsom’s ability to seek injunctive relief as part of the surviving nuisance case. Newsom’s dispute comes as Virginia sees rapid growth in data-centre construction driven by cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Newsom has also raised concerns about a proposed transmission project that would serve the region’s growing electricity demand from data centres.
