Fairfax County, Virginia
DataCentersExposed tracks 14 AI data centers in Fairfax County, Virginia — 12 operating and 0 in the pipeline, led by Amazon.com, Inc.. Its transparent data-center risk score is 0/100.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
Fairfax County, Virginia has 14 tracked data centers, 12 of them operating. Its composite data-center risk score is 20 out of 100 — see the breakdown above for which factors drive it.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
- Project exposure · 35
- Power demand · 0
- Water draw · n/a
- Land footprint · n/a
What's happening in Fairfax County
Amazon.com, Inc. has the largest presence in Fairfax County. We resolve project codenames and shell LLCs back to the corporate parent wherever the public record allows, so the table below names who is actually behind each site.
Below: every tracked facility in the county, the active state legislation that names it or its county, and local news. Commissioner vote records arrive in a later release; the placeholders show where that accountability data will land.
Every tracked facility
| Facility | Operator | Status | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8100 Boone Boulevard | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | — | |
| Amazon IAD-1 Chantilly | Amazon.com, Inc. | — | |
| Amazon IAD-165 Herndon | Amazon.com, Inc. | — | |
| Amazon IAD-500 Herndon | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| CoreSite Reston Campus VA1 Reston | American Tower Corporation | — | |
| CoreSite Reston VA3 Reston | American Tower Corporation | — | |
| DataBank McLean IAD2 McLean | DataBank Holdings, Ltd. | — | |
| Digital Realty | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | — | |
| Element Critical VA1 | Element Critical | — | |
| Equinix DC7 | Equinix, Inc. | — | |
| Equinix DC97 | Equinix, Inc. | — | |
| Iad1 Reston | — | — | |
| Menlo Digital MD-DC1 | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Va3 Reston | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | — |
County commissioners
How the Fairfax County board votes on each data-center matter — the rezonings, the abatements, the water permits — is built from public-meeting minutes and roll-call records. Know of a vote we should be tracking? Tell us.