Northern Virginia Data Center Market
Northern Virginia data center market intelligence: 3,400+ MW capacity, vacancy under 1%, Dominion grid constraints, and operator buildout pipeline.
Location: Virginia, North America, United States.
Market Metrics
- Operational capacity: 4,500 MW
- Under construction: 1,200 MW
- Facilities tracked: 103
- Vacancy rate: 0.5%
- Year-over-year absorption: 450 MW
- Average power cost: $0.065 per kWh
- Interconnection wait: 48 months
- Utility: Dominion Energy
Grid Constraints
Substation upgrades delayed to 2029+; moratorium on new connections in parts of Loudoun County
Behind-the-Meter Activity
Rapid adoption of on-site gas turbines and fuel cells. Multiple operators pursuing 50+ MW behind-the-meter natural gas generation.
Tracked Facilities
- Digital Realty IAD43 — Ashburn, VA (72 MW)
- STACK NoVA Campus — Ashburn, VA (60 MW)
- Equinix DC11 — Ashburn, VA (48 MW)
- Sabey Intergate Ashburn — Ashburn, VA (42 MW)
- QTS Ashburn (DCA) — Ashburn, VA (36 MW)
- CyrusOne Sterling IX — Sterling, VA (32 MW)
- NTT Ashburn VA1 — Ashburn, VA (20 MW)
- CoreSite VA1 — Reston, VA (18 MW)
- Equinix DC2 — Ashburn, VA (15 MW)
- CoreSite - Washington,DC (DC1) — Washington, DC (12 MW)
- Equinix DC8 - Ashburn, Vienna — Vienna, VA (12 MW)
- Equinix DC7 - Ashburn, Vienna — Vienna, VA (12 MW)
- Equinix DC1-DC15,DC21-DC22 - Ashburn — Ashburn, VA (12 MW)
- Digital Realty IAD (44480 Hastings) — Ashburn, VA (12 MW)
- CoreSite - Reston (VA1) — Reston, VA (12 MW)
Powering a Project in This Market
Where the interconnection queue sets the schedule, on-site generation is the alternative that can be delivered in months. The Power Intelligence Tool compares fuel cells, aeroderivative gas turbines, reciprocating gas engines, diesel generators, and solar plus storage on twenty-year cost and time to power. Equipment sits in the marketplace — gas turbines, generators, transformers, and switchgear — with four-tier price context in the Pricing Index and acquisition capital through equipment financing.
Sourcing
Market figures above are stored values from the SecondWatt data center dataset, as of 2025-12-31, sourced from CBRE H2 2025 North America Data Center Report. Collection and refresh rules are documented on the methodology page. Other markets and operators are indexed in the data center library, and published analysis in articles and reports.