QTS Manassas Campus
Manassas, Prince William County, VA
QTS Manassas Campus is a mapped data center in Prince William County, VA, operated by QTS Realty Trust, LLC. DataCentersExposed has documented 425 MW of reported power capacity at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify
Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.
Overview
QTS Manassas Campus is a hyperscale data center in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, operated by QTS Realty Trust, LLC. Operational since 2017, the site carries a reported power capacity of 425 MW, drawn from Dominion Energy Virginia and running within the PJM grid.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentQTS Realty Trust, LLC
- This facilityQTS Manassas Campus
In the news
source: Google News- Developers seek to revive data center next to Virginia battlefieldE&E News by POLITICO· May 1, 2026
- News | Blackstone secures $2 billion data center CMBS loanCoStar· Feb 13, 2026
- Digital Gateway data center opponents appeal lawsuit’s recent dismissalInsideNoVa.com· Dec 8, 2024
- Amazon data center arm buys 140 acres in Prince William County for $152MThe Business Journals· Jan 24, 2024
- Fight Over Major Data Center Project In Prince William County Goes To CourtDCist· Jan 12, 2024
- Controversial Data Center Plan Passes In Prince William County After 27-Hour HearingDCist· Dec 13, 2023
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No 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.
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.
Water use
No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 425 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 ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
What this site costs the grid
source: PJM RPM auction reportsPJM'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 →
425 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: AirNowAir 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 2023Demographics 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 / NCESThe nearest public school, Baldwin Intermediate in Manassas, is 0.4 mi from this site (260 students). 7 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.