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Equinix Ashburn Campus
21715 Filligree Court
Ashburn, VA 20147
Located in Ashburn: Data Center Alley
  • 573,032 Gross SqFt
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Equinix's Ashburn campus consists of many buildings (table below) arranged in a campus environment. A simple cross-connect will reach any other building on the campus.

NTT VA3
21583 Megawatt Drive
Ashburn VA 20147
Located in Ashburn: Data Center Alley
  • 245,000 Gross SqFt
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RagingWire's Ashburn VA3 Data Center is phase one of the massive Ashburn Data Center Campus development which can accommodate six buildings on the 76.5 acre site.

Iron Mountain Northern Virginia (Manassas)
11680 Hayden Rd
Manassas, VA 20109
  • 100,000 Gross SqFt
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Announced in March 2016, Iron Mountain’s Manassas data center in Prince William County will include four buildings totaling 915,000 square feet and 60 MW of power. The campus is 83 acres.

  • VA-1, the first building on the campus, is a 165,000Sqft facility with 12.4 MW of power.
Digital Realty Loudoun Ashburn Campus
43881 Devin Shafron Drive
Ashburn, VA 20146
Located in Ashburn: Data Center Alley
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  • 1,700,000 Building SqFt

The Digital Ashburn (Loudoun) Campus is 98 acres and consists of 9 datacenters. There are at least 37 suites within nine buildings on the Loudoun Exchange campus.

CoreSite Reston Campus VA1 VA2
12100 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20191
  • 285,000 Gross SqFt
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VA1 and VA2 are on Sunrise Valley Drive in Reston. VA2 was built in the parking lot of the original VA1 data center.


Northern Virginia (otherwise known as NoVa) is the largest data center market in the United States. The region is also one of the best-connected metros in the United States, particularly around Ashburn, VA.

What is Northern Virginia?

Northern Virginia (also known as NoVa) includes Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William Counties. In addition, we added Washington DC to the region as it offers an alternative fiber path.

Data Center Alley in Loudoun

  • Data Center Alley is a concentration of data centers in Loudoun County along the Dulles Greenway (267), which (includes Ashburn, Sterling, and Leesburg.)
  • Ashburn is the heart of the Data Center Alley and the Equinix campus in Ashburn is the driver of the area’s connectivity and data center boom. Many providers cluster around the Equinix Ashburn campus to provide access to to the network ecosystem.
  • Digital Realty acquired Dupont Fabros in 2017 which gave it Dupont's multi-building campus that is adjacent to Equinix Ashburn.
  • There is a land rush and building boom in Loudoun County as companies scoop up the last remaining land around Ashburn.
  • Sterling is adjacent to Ashburn and hosts a number of providers: QTS, Infomart, and Cyxtera, and CyrusOne.
  • As land becomes expensive and scarce in Ashburn, data center developers are looking West to the Leesburg area. Two new Leesburg data center projects are in process.
    • Google (acquired 58 acres to build a data center near the Dulles Greenway)
    • Compass is building on 105 acres on the South side of Dulles Greenway.

Fairfax County

  • Fairfax County (which includes Herndon, Reston, Vienna, and Tysons) typically has older data centers. For example, the original MAE-East was located at 8100 Boone Blvd in Vienna.
  • CoreSite is an active developer of new floor space in Reston. CoreSite as recently announced the development of VA3 near their existing campus in Reston




Largest Data Centers in Northern Virginia

Gross SqFt Gross SqFt Power (MW) Power (MW)
Aligned IAD02 120.00
CloudHQ LC2 96.00
44274 Round Table (Bldg L) 84.00
Digital Realty Loudoun Ashburn Campus 80.00
44751 Round Table (Bldg P) 69.60
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Data Center Construction in Northern Virginia

Company Region Name Site Name Building SqFt Gross SqFt Power (MWs) Estimated Launch
Corscale Northern Virginia Corscale: Gainesville Crossing 230000 72.0 Jul 01 2022
Yondr Group Northern Virginia Yondr Bristow Campus 96.0
Compass Northern Virginia Compass Loudoun County 6.0
Microsoft Northern Virginia Microsoft Leesburg 1A 250000 20.0
Total 250000 230000 194.0


March 2019

Cush and Wake Marketbeat for Northern Virginia (Spring 2019)

January 2019

Prince William Country Data Center brochure

December 2018

JLL's Northern Virginia data center outlook (H2 2018)

Map of data centers immediately surrounding the Equinix campus and Beaumeade Circle.
The inertia flywheel provides conditioned uninterrupted power to data center equipment
HITEC Flywheel
Campus view showing VA3 to VA9

Map of data centers immediately surrounding the Equinix campus and Beaumeade Circle.
Ashburn Data Center Cluster Map

Map of data centers immediately surrounding the Equinix campus and Beaumeade Circle.

Proposed Campus property outline in Culpeper
Posted in CloudHQ: Culpeper
The inertia flywheel provides conditioned uninterrupted power to data center equipment
HITEC Flywheel
HITEC Flywheel
Posted in CloudHQ Manassas Hornbaker

The inertia flywheel provides conditioned uninterrupted power to data center equipment
HITEC Flywheel

Main Distribution Switchgear
Posted in CloudHQ Manassas Hornbaker
Substation connectyions
Posted in CloudHQ Manassas Hornbaker
Source: COPT
Campus layout
Posted in CloudHQ Manassas Hornbaker
Source: COPT
Campus view showing VA3 to VA9
NTT Ashburn Campus Overview
Posted in NTT Ashburn Campus

Campus view showing VA3 to VA9

AWS is proposing to build 1.75 million sqft of data centers on the 100 acre lot
Posted in Amazon 25020 Willard Road
View of VA2 from the Entrance of VA1
Posted in CoreSite Reston Campus VA1 VA2
Conference Room in VA2
Posted in CoreSite Reston Campus VA1 VA2
Source: CoreSite
Lobby of VA2
Posted in CoreSite Reston Campus VA1 VA2
Source: CoreSite
Element's VA1 security desk
Posted in Element Critical VA1
Rendering of first building
Posted in Corscale: Gainesville Crossing
Exterior View
Posted in CloudHQ Manassas MCC1
Source: CloudHQ
Outside of Vantage's VA12 Facility
Posted in Vantage VA12
Location of Building J on Campus
Posted in 44100 Digital Loudoun Plaza (Bldg J)
Source: DRT
Outside of Building J
Posted in 44100 Digital Loudoun Plaza (Bldg J)
Source: DRT
Rendering of the proposed Aligned data center in Sterling, VA
Posted in Aligned IAD03
Outside of "The Vault"
Posted in QTS Moran (The Vault)
Source: QTS
Drone photo of the Ashburn-Moran facility
Posted in QTS Moran (The Vault)
Source: QTS
Satellite View Next to IAD74
Posted in Amazon IAD-73