Who owns Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus?

Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus is owned and operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc..

How much power does Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus use?

Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus has a reported power capacity of 380 MW.

Has Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus had environmental violations?

DataCentersExposed tracks 1 EPA enforcement record linked to Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus.

Where is Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus located?

Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus is in Ashburn, Loudoun County, VA.

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Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus

Q: What do data center tax breaks cost in Virginia?

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). That is a statewide program figure, not attributable to one site.

Ashburn, Loudoun County, VA

Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus is an operating data center in Loudoun County, VA, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 380 MW of reported power capacity and 1 tracked EPA enforcement record at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent

Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

Operator

Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

Power

380 MW

Utility

Dominion Energy Virginia

Grid

PJM

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Overview

Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus is an operating colocation data center in Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia, run by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Operational since 2015, the site draws a reported 380 MW from Dominion Energy Virginia within the PJM grid. It carries one tracked environmental enforcement record.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
This facility
Digital Realty Ashburn Corporate Campus

In the news

source: Google News

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

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

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.

Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
State of Texas · granted 2014 · 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~7.1M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~3.5M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~3.6M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 380 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

Clean Air Actno penalty
formal · reported 2023-02-10

Environmental permits

source: Permit register

Clean Air Act permitted sourceVA0000005110700849
NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified
VA DEQ air permit (minor NSR)73370
Diesel backup-generator air permit. Program: mNSR. Reg. 73370.

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

$46.2M/yr

380 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

$152.8K

People of color

38%

Below poverty

Tract population

5,369

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, Cedar Lane Elementary in Ashburn, is 0.3 mi from this site (730 students). 4 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

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.