Lincoln Rackhouse Maryland
12401 Prosperity Drive · Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD
Source: OpenStreetMap
Lincoln Rackhouse Maryland is an operating data center in Montgomery County, MD. DataCentersExposed has documented 5 MW of reported power capacity and a 146,301 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 18, 2026
Overview
source: linkLincoln Rackhouse Maryland is an operating data center in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, run by Lincoln Rackhouse. Its reported footprint is 146,301 square feet. The site draws power from Potomac Electric Power Co inside the PJM grid. Ownership above Lincoln Rackhouse is not disclosed in available records.
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- More than 50% of Montgomery County’s at large candidates live in Silver SpringThe Baltimore Banner· Jun 19, 2026
- An 86-year-old farmer turned down $15 million from data center developers, preserved 261 acres in Pennsylvania for $1.9 million, and moved the town by choosing family land over seeing his farms destroyed by giant digital warehouses.CPG Click Oil and Gas· Jun 17, 2026
- Planned in central Pa.: Massive data centers, hundreds of homes, morePennLive.com· Jun 11, 2026
- At-Large Candidate Karla Silvestre To Use 'Listen First' Approach On CouncilPatch· Jun 10, 2026
- Candidate Julie Yang Aims To Bring BoE Experience To 1st District SeatPatch· Jun 10, 2026
- A data centre may be coming to your neighbourhoodspringmag.ca· Jun 8, 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.
Water use
No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.
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 BGE pricing zone, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →
5 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 (Suburban DC), 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, Galway Elementary in Silver Spring, is 1.0 mi from this site (733 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.