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JD Vance Eyes Up $9M Mansion Owned by Data Center Tycoon

EXCLUSIVE: Vance is looking to rent the luxury property from a businessman making bank on a Trump administration policy push spearheaded by the vice president himself.

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Jul 10, 2026
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JD Vance is eyeing up a $9 million Virginia mansion owned by a businessman whose data center empire is booming under a policy championed by the vice president, PunchUp can reveal.

The sprawling, historic horse-farming estate is up for rent in Middleburg—a town 45 miles from Washington, D.C., packed with multimillion-dollar homes and renowned as the country’s “horse and hunt capital.”

The residence in question is Wolver Hill, a historic estate on Middleburg’s northern edge, according to three Daily Beast sources. Its owner is Charles “Chuck” Kuhn, 60, one of northern Virginia’s biggest landowners and, lately, one of its most aggressive data-center developers—a sector that the Trump administration and Vance in particular have consistently backed.

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The sprawling Wolver Hill estate sits just north of the genteel hamlet of Middleburg, Virginia. (Photo credit: Google Earth)

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