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CyrusOne Stafford Campus

Stafford County, VA

CyrusOne Stafford Campus is a permitted data center in Stafford County, VA, operated by CyrusOne LLC. DataCentersExposed has documented 250 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Power & your bill

250 MW of new demand — roughly a city of 200,000 homes.

Large new loads can raise transmission and capacity costs that land on every ratepayer. Residential power in VA is 17.1¢/kWh, up 14.5% year-over-year. (MW→homes is a rough ~800/MW planning figure.)

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Real parent
CyrusOne LLC
Operator
CyrusOne LLC
Power
250 MW
Utility
Virginia Electric & Power Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprovenance JSON
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

CyrusOne Stafford Campus is a permitted colocation data center in Stafford County, Virginia, operated by CyrusOne LLC. Proposed in 2024, the project carries a reported power capacity of 250 MW, drawing electricity from Virginia Electric & Power Co within the PJM grid. The campus remains in the permitting stage and is not yet operating.

Operator chain

  • Ultimate parent
    CyrusOne LLC
  • This facility
    CyrusOne Stafford Campus

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to CyrusOne LLC (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 Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2017 · term yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2016 · 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~4.7M gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~2.3M gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~2.4M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 250 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
$30.4M/yr

250 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 →

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$170.4K
People of color
51%
Below poverty
1%
Tract population
4,317

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, Colonial Forge High in Stafford, is 1.1 mi from this site (1,996 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

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