Va 4 is owned and operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc..

Has Va 4 had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Va 4.

Where is Va 4 located?

Va 4 is in Bristow, Prince William County, VA.

Mapped (unverified)colocation

Va 4

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.

8217 Linton Hall Road · Bristow, Prince William County, VA

Source: OpenStreetMap

Va 4 is a mapped data center in Prince William County, VA, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 263,538 sq ft footprint 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.

Est. capacity

~50-110 MW

Footprint

263,538 sq ft

Utility

Northern Virginia Elec Coop

Grid

PJM

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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

VA 4 is a colocation data center in Bristow, Prince William County, Virginia, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. The mapped site covers 263,538 square feet, drawing power from Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative within the PJM grid. It is recorded as a Digital Realty data center.

Operator chain

Ultimate parent
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Files as
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
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Va 4

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

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.

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)

$6.1M to $13.4M/yr

An estimated ~50 to 110 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

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

$196.1K

People of color

55%

Below poverty

Tract population

5,336

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, Piney Branch Elementary in Bristow, is 0.2 mi from this site (766 students). 3 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.