Virginia: New data center planned in Ashburn, Virginia

Daniel Golding, CTO of Appleby Strategy Group, this week announced plans for a new data center at the Quantum Park in Loudoun County. The address is 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, located within the Quantum Park business park. The park is the former UUNet/MCI Worldcom site that was a key connectivity hub dating to the early days of the Internet; Verizon had an existing data center there for many years.

"A 20MW data center in the heart of Ashburn (1 mile from Beaumeade Circle), designed especially for regional network hubs, SuperPOPs, Edge cache, inference deployments," he said on LinkedIn. "On top of an incredible concentration of conduit. 1MW to 3MW suites. Five discrete POEs. Four redundant non-SPOF paths to WAN fiber."

Golding continued: "I designed this myself - flexible fit-out - PDUs, CRAHs, busway, hot aisle containment, slab floors - we are going for the state-of-the-art for hyperscale, and superscale network hubs, not to mention AI/ML CSP network concentration. Why? There is a huge need in this geographical area - there is great smaller-scale retail colocation and there are awesome full-building leases, but in between?"