Equinix DC Campus — Ashburn
Ashburn, Loudoun County, VA
Equinix DC Campus — Ashburn is a mapped data center in Loudoun County, VA, operated by Equinix, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 320 MW of reported power capacity at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
Overview
Equinix DC Campus is a colocation data center in Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia, operated by Equinix, Inc., which owns the site. Operational since 2013, the campus draws a reported 320 MW, supplied by Dominion Energy Virginia and running within the PJM grid. The site is currently mapped.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentEquinix, Inc.
- This facilityEquinix DC Campus — Ashburn
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- Loudoun students tour Equinix data center in AshburnLoudoun Times-Mirror· Jun 12, 2026
- Loudoun County, Virginia: The Heart of the Data-Center BoomCity Journal· Apr 26, 2026
- US' National Science Foundation seeks to reduce data center footprintData Center Dynamics· Apr 15, 2026
- Equinix pitches expansion of its Data Center Alley footprintThe Business Journals· Mar 25, 2026
- FERC approves ComEd data center transmission agreementsUtility Dive· Mar 11, 2026
- Tremendous power: A rare look inside the data centre boom fuelled by AIthenationalnews.com· Jan 15, 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 320 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 ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
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 →
320 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, Discovery Elementary in Ashburn, is 0.2 mi from this site (710 students). 3 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.