Microsoft plans to develop a new data center campus outside Gainesville in Prince William County, Virginia. The company has applied to the US Army Corps of Engineers for the MNZ07 Wellington Data Center at 13490 University Boulevard. The project would include two one-story data center buildings and an on-site substati
on across 123 acres near Interstate 66 and Wellington Road.
The project is intended to meet growing regional demand for cloud services, according to the application. Construction would affect 955 linear feet of streams and 1.95 acres of wetlands. Microsoft acquired the 124-acre site from local landowner Chuck Kuhn in 2024 for $465.5 million.
The project application was submitted to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality in July. The site borders Amazon’s 117-acre property, where the company plans a 2.3 million sq ft (213,676 sqm) data center campus known as Gainesville West and Gainesville East. Google-linked Sharpless Enterprises is also planning a major data center campus nearby. Much of the area was previously used as a military facility operated by Atlantic Research Corporation.
