Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus
Ashburn, Loudoun County, VA
Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus is an operating data center in Loudoun County, VA, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 380 MW of reported power capacity and 1 tracked EPA enforcement record at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
Overview
Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus is an operating colocation data center in Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia, run by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Operational since 2015, the site draws a reported 380 MW from Dominion Energy Virginia within the PJM grid. It carries one tracked environmental enforcement record.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentDigital Realty Trust, Inc.
- This facilityDigital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe 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: Google News- The Virginia Data Center Campus. How Digital Realty grows with AI cloud demandAd-hoc-news.de· Jul 13, 2026
- The PlatformDIGITAL data center - Digital Realty Trust bets on scalable interconnection for US enterAd-hoc-news.de· Jul 7, 2026
- AI Data Center Backlash: Zoning Notice Rule Kills World’s Largest Planned CampusTech Times· Jul 4, 2026
- An investment chief shares 4 tech stocks that can weather an upheaval in the AI tradeBusiness Insider· Jul 2, 2026
- The Colocation Services by Digital Realty - Enterprise customers get flexible data center capacityAd-hoc-news.de· Jun 30, 2026
- Digital Realty to pay Blackstone $3.5 billion for stake in Virginia data centersMSN· Jun 29, 2026
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No 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.
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.
Water use
No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 380 MW (disclosed IT power): 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 penaltyformal · reported 2023-02-10
Environmental permits
source: Permit register- Clean Air Act permitted sourceVA0000005110700849NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified
- VA DEQ air permit (minor NSR)73370Diesel backup-generator air permit. Program: mNSR. Reg. 73370.
What this site costs the grid
source: PJM RPM auction reportsPJM'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 →
380 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: AirNowAir 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 2023Demographics 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 / NCESThe nearest public school, Cedar Lane Elementary in Ashburn, is 0.3 mi from this site (730 students). 4 public schools sit within a mile of the site.
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.