In a major defeat for a growing NIMBY movement to restrict the expansion of Northern Virginia's data center hub into rural areas, Prince William County has approved a 2,139-acre, 28M SF data center cluster that will sit in proximity to the Civil War battlefield at Manassas.
Anti-data center activists had specifically drawn their battle lines around the historic site, also known as the Battle of Bull Run.
But this week the county's Board of Supervisors gave the green light—in a 5-2 vote during a 14-hour session—to a development that will be known as the Prince William Digital Gateway, a massive data center cluster that already has two anchor occupants: QTS and Compass Data Centers, which each will build hyperscale data center campuses encompassing 18M SF and 1,000 MW of capacity on 1,636 acres of the new Gateway zone.
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