AWS Northern Virginia Cluster
Operated by Amazon Web Services · Ashburn, VA, US1 srcupdated 2d ago
Loudoun County / 'Data Center Alley' — the world's densest concentration of cloud capacity.
Compared to peers
Compared with 117 peer facilities in US.
- Capacity (MW)
- 3,0005×+ above median
- median 32 · p95 1,510
- Supplier coverage
- 5no peers
- median 0 · p75 0
- Announce → online lag
- in progress
- no completions yet
Bands describe deviation from peer median; not a judgment.
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
3000 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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