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CloudHQ data center, Loudoun County, VA

Loudoun County, VA

Source: OpenStreetMap

CloudHQ data center in Loudoun County, VA is an operating facility, operated by CloudHQ, LLC. DataCentersExposed has documented a 460,596 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
CloudHQ, LLC
Operator
CloudHQ, LLC
Est. capacity
~90-190 MW
Footprint
460,596 sq ft
Utility
Virginia Electric & Power Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

CloudHQ is an operating hyperscale data center in Loudoun County, Virginia, run by CloudHQ, LLC across a footprint of 460,596 square feet. The site draws power from Virginia Electric & Power Co and sits within the PJM grid. No corporate parent beyond the operating entity is identified in the available records.

Operator chain

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No 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.

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

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 ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Environmental permits

source: Permit register
  • Clean Air Act permitted sourceVA0000005115374107
    NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified
  • VA DEQ air permit (minor NSR)74107
    Diesel backup-generator air permit. Program: mNSR. Reg. 74107.

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 (estimated)
$10.9M to $23.1M/yr

An estimated ~90 to 190 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price. Estimated from the building footprint at 200 to 400 W/ft² (the typical range for modern data centers). A rough order-of-magnitude figure, not a metered or permitted capacity.

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
52
PM2.5
Moderate
36
O3
Good
15
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
$131.4K
People of color
64%
Below poverty
3%
Tract population
7,191

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, Discovery Elementary in Ashburn, is 1.2 mi from this site (710 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.