Virginia data center projects

Aligned Ashburn IAD01–IAD02 Data Center Campus, also known as Aligned Ashburn Campus, is a data center project in Ashburn, VA, US associated with Aligned Data Centers. IAD01 and IAD02; more than 1 million square feet; 180 MW+ published capacity. Northern Virginia campus using Aligned adaptive cooling and scalable high-density power architecture.

AVAIO Digital is developing the Hercules campus in Appomattox County, Virginia as an approximately $3 billion project. The power design combines about 300 MW of grid service with as much as 700 MW of behind-the-meter generation for a 1 GW baseload envelope. That figure describes the site power design, not IT capacity.

Amazon Web Services is developing the Mattameade campus across Caroline and Spotsylvania counties in Virginia. Plans cover approximately 1,143 acres, eleven two-story data center buildings and three substations, with local site-plan and federal wetlands reviews proceeding by phase. A campus IT-capacity figure has not been publicly disclosed.

Microsoft’s Boydton campus is a long-running operating East US data center complex in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Public records document a multi-phased campus, 15 buildings and 165 backup engine-generator sets, plus a 335-acre expansion parcel with substations and supporting infrastructure.

On September 29, 2026, King George County announced an agreement recognizing AWS’s vested development rights for the planned $6 billion Birchwood campus, with a binding commitment excluding data-center buildings from river-adjacent land. This is a development-rights settlement, not a construction-completion announcement. Birchwood is an Amazon Web Services campus planned in King George County, Virginia. County records describe a three-phase development with 19 buildings and six substations, while a performance agreement contemplates AWS investment across Birchwood and nearby Sealston properties through 2040. The records do not establish the tracked 2.175 GW as operating or contracted IT capacity, and the construction schedule remains uncertain. Cartis therefore keeps the existing identity but withholds the headline while monitoring permits, utility delivery and phase status.

CleanArc broke ground on its VA1 hyperscale campus in Caroline County, Virginia in November 2025. The 650-acre project plans three 300 MW grid tranches, with the first substation under agreement with Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, closed-loop cooling and phased delivery extending into the mid-2030s.