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CyrusOne data center, Loudoun County, VA

Loudoun County, VA

Source: OpenStreetMap

CyrusOne data center in Loudoun County, VA is an operating facility, operated by CyrusOne LLC. DataCentersExposed has documented 13 MW of reported power capacity, a 127,744 sq ft footprint and 1 tracked EPA enforcement record at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 18, 2026

Real parent
CyrusOne LLC
Operator
CyrusOne LLC
Power
13 MW
Footprint
127,744 sq ft
Interconnection
~37 MW
Utility
Northern Virginia Elec Coop
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

CyrusOne is an operating colocation data center in Loudoun County, Virginia, run by CyrusOne LLC. Its reported footprint is 127,744 square feet, and tracked records list 1 environmental enforcement action tied to the site. Power comes from Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative inside the PJM grid.

Operator chain

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
0.7 mi
Sterling Park · 230 kV
Transmission line
0.7 mi
230 kV line
Municipal water
Served
Loudoun Water - Central System

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Statewide cost of this incentive

Virginia reported $1B in Data Center Retail Sales and Use Tax Exemption (Va. Code § 58.1-609.3(18)) for FY2024 (Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) / Weldon Cooper Center). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Virginia subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~693K gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~337.8K gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~355.2K gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 37 MW (interconnection capacity): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.5 gal/kWh embedded in PJM grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO
  • Clean Air Actno penalty
    formal · reported 2024-01-25

Environmental permits

source: Permit register
  • Clean Air Act permitted sourceVA0000005110774114
    NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified
  • VA DEQ air permit (minor NSR)74114
    Diesel backup-generator air permit. Program: mNSR. Reg. 74114.

What this site costs the grid

source: PJM RPM auction reports
Dominion (Virginia / NC) · 2027/28 auction
$333 /MW-day
Peaked at $444/MW-day in 2025/26 1.65× the rest of PJM

PJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site sits in PJM's DOM pricing zone, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →

This site's capacity-market cost
$1.6M/yr

13 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price.

Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
52
PM2.5
Moderate
36
O3
Good
15
PM10
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Northern Virginia), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$193.4K
People of color
55%
Below poverty
1%
Tract population
2,459

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Guilford Elementary in Sterling, is 1.2 mi from this site (541 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.

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