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Data centers in Virginia

Cleanview tracks 852 data centers on 253 campuses in Virginia, many of them AI and hyperscale.

Campuses

  • Planned78
  • Under construction67
  • Operating108
RichmondVirginia BeachAshburnRoanokeCharlottesville

Under 200 MW200–999 MW1 GW and up

Updated daily. Last updated November 7, 2026.

Virginia has 358 data centers operating and 127 under construction

Operating358Under construction127Planned367
Buildings on 253 campuses, by status. Source: Cleanview.

Virginia went from 104 data centers online in 2016 to 352 in 2026, with 127 more under construction

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Operating buildings online at the end of each year, counting the 352 of 358 with a known year online. 2026 adds the buildings under construction. Source: Cleanview.

The 10 largest data centers in Virginia

Campuses ranked by the power capacity of the buildings operating today.

#CampusOperating capacity
1QTS Richmond921 MW
2CloudHQ LC Campus558 MW
3Digital Realty Round Table Plaza523 MW
4Aligned Ashburn414 MW
5Microsoft East Coast (Boydton)408 MW
6Microsoft LVL (Boydton)399 MW
7Google Leesburg386 MW
8Digital Realty Loudoun 1 & 2 (Devin Shafron & Loudoun Plaza)326 MW
9Iron Mountain Manassas Data Center Campus318 MW
10Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Center309 MW

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Data centers under construction in Virginia

Cleanview tracks 127 data center buildings under construction on 67 campuses in Virginia. These are the largest, by power capacity at full build-out.

#CampusFull build-out
1QTS Richmond2,054 MW
2Digital Dulles1,723 MW
3Stack Stafford Technology Campus1,431 MW
4CloudHQ LC South1,310 MW
5Mattameade Tech Campus770 MW
6Northeast Creek Campus700 MW
7Iron Mountain Manassas Data Center Campus677 MW
8Stack NVA02600 MW
9CloudHQ Manassas Corporate Center (MCC)535 MW
10PowerHouse 95525 MW

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How Cleanview tracks data centers

There's no government database of data centers. We build ours from public records, one campus at a time, and track every kind: AI and hyperscale campuses, colocation sites, enterprise data centers and crypto mines. We only count individual buildings as data centers, and group them into campuses: one site, usually built in phases.

Built from primary sources

Each campus starts with a public document: an air permit, a building permit, a rezoning or a utility filing. We record each building's power and IT capacity from them and save every source.

From first permit to operation

We follow each campus from its first filing through construction, and update it as buildings come online. Most campuses are built in phases, so we track every building.

Checked from above

Satellite images show when crews start grading and when buildings go up. Under construction means work has started on site, not just an announcement.

Questions about data centers in Virginia

How many data centers are in Virginia?
Cleanview tracks 852 data centers in Virginia, on 253 campuses, as of November 7, 2026. 358 are operating, 127 under construction and 367 planned.
Why do other sites count more data centers?
Cleanview only counts individual buildings as data centers. Some directories count facilities instead, and a facility can occupy an entire building or one or more rooms within a building. That means "10 data centers" on one of those lists could mean 10 rooms within a single building operated by a colocation company. Cleanview counts that as one data center, since counting each room would count the same building 10 times. Those directories also count many small colocation, edge and enterprise data centers. Cleanview has more of a focus on hyperscale and AI data centers. Of the 852 data centers Cleanview tracks in Virginia, 358 are operating, and the rest are under construction or planned.
Where are data centers being built in Virginia?
Construction is underway on 127 data centers on 67 campuses in Virginia. The largest are QTS Richmond in Henrico County, Digital Dulles in Loudoun County and Stack Stafford Technology Campus in Stafford County.
What is the largest data center in Virginia?
QTS Richmond in Henrico County is the largest operating data center campus in Virginia, with 921 MW of power capacity online.
How many AI data centers are in Virginia?
Cleanview doesn't label campuses as AI or not, since most new campuses can serve both AI and cloud computing. It tracks every kind of data center in Virginia, from AI and hyperscale campuses to colocation sites, enterprise data centers and crypto mines.
What is a hyperscale data center?
A hyperscale data center is a campus built for one of the largest cloud and AI companies, like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft or OpenAI. They usually draw hundreds of megawatts. Cleanview tracks 11 campuses in Virginia planned at 1 GW or more.
What's the difference between power capacity and IT capacity?
Power capacity is the electricity a campus is built to draw from the grid. IT capacity is the part that reaches its servers and chips; the rest runs cooling and other equipment. Cleanview tracks both for every building.
What kinds of data centers does Cleanview track?
Every kind, with more of a focus on hyperscale and AI: campuses built for companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, colocation sites leased to many tenants, enterprise data centers a company runs for itself, and crypto mines.

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