AWS Northern Virginia Cluster
Operated by Amazon Web Services · Ashburn, VA, US1 srcupdated 6mo ago
https://www.loudoun.gov/4922/Data-Centers
Loudoun County / 'Data Center Alley' — the world's densest concentration of cloud capacity.
Compared to peers
Compared with 166 peer facilities in US.
- Current capacity
- 3,000 MWno peers
- median 0 · p95 350
- Supplier coverage
- 5no peers
- median 0 · p75 0
- Announce → online lag
- in progress
- no completions yet
Bands compare operating capacity with the peer median. Planned capacity is shown separately and is not added.
Ownership chain (Amazon Web Services)
No ownership chain tracked yet for this entity. Investigators can add parent companies via the ownership_edge table or community findings.
Public subsidies & incentives
Total disclosed
$929.0M
Claimed jobs
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$/job claimed
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- Virginia — Data Center Sales & Use Tax Exemption (Va. Code 58.1-609.3(18))US-VA · tax-abatement$929.0Mannounced 2010.7.01 · 25y term ·
Permits
- grid interconnectPJM Interconnectionpendingapplied 2022.2.01 ·
- zoningLoudoun County Board of Supervisorsgrantedapplied 2022.5.01 · issued 2023.12.12 · 590d lag
- environmentalVirginia DEQgrantedissued 2024.3.15
- zoningLoudoun County (specific denial not confirmed)denied
Status
operational
Current capacity
3,000 MW
Planned capacity
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Power source
grid-mixed
Cooling
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Water draw
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PUE
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Capex
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Timeline
- Announced
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- Groundbreak
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- Online
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- Full capacity
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Power
- Primary source
- grid-mixed
- Utility
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- PUE pledged
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Suppliers (5)
- Vertiv1 srccooling · Power and thermal infrastructure
- Dominion Energy1 srcelectrical · Primary electric utility · local
- NOVEC (Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative)1 srcelectrical · Co-op utility serving parts of campus · local
- Holder Construction1 srcgc · GC on multiple AWS NoVa buildings
- Clune Construction1 srcgc · GC on Loudoun builds
Sources (1)
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