Who owns AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster?

AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster is operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc..

How much power does AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster use?

AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster has a reported power capacity of 950 MW across roughly 150,826 square feet.

What tax breaks has AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster received?

Amazon.com, Inc. has received $16.7M in tracked tax abatements across its sites. No state discloses the recipient at the individual-facility level.

Has AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster.

Where is AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster located?

AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster is in Sterling, Loudoun County, VA.

Mapped (unverified)hyperscale

AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster

Sterling, Loudoun County, VA

AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster is a mapped data center in Loudoun County, VA, operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 950 MW of reported power capacity and a 150,826 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent

Amazon.com, Inc.

Operator

Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Power

950 MW

Footprint

150,826 sq ft

Utility

Dominion Energy Virginia

Grid

PJM

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Overview

The AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster is a hyperscale site in Sterling, Loudoun County, VA, operated by Amazon Data Services, Inc. and ultimately owned by Amazon.com, Inc. Operational since 2018, it carries a reported power capacity of 950 MW across a 150,826 square foot footprint, drawing electricity from Dominion Energy Virginia within the PJM grid.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Amazon.com, Inc.
Files as
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
This facility
AWS Sterling Data Center Cluster

Known aliases: VAS01 · Project Plata

In the news

source: Google News

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Amazon.com, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Total to this operator: $16.7M

Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)$16,668,806
Morrow County School District 1, OR · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2021 · term — yr · source

Statewide cost of this incentive

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.

source · All Virginia subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~17.8M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~8.7M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~9.1M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 950 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

No reported violations as of last sync.

What this site costs the grid

source: PJM RPM auction reports

Dominion (Virginia / NC) · 2027/28 auction

$333 /MW-day

Peaked at $444/MW-day in 2025/26 — 1.65× the rest of PJM

PJM'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 →

This site's capacity-market cost

$115.5M/yr

950 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: AirNow

PM2.5

Moderate

Good

PM10

Good

Air 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 2023

Median household income

$98.6K

People of color

27%

Below poverty

12%

Tract population

4,279

Demographics 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 / NCES

The nearest public school, Guilford Elementary in Sterling, is 1.7 mi from this site (541 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.