Aligned IAD-03
Aligned Data Centers lists a data center at Sterling, Virginia among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Aligned Data Centers
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Aligned Data Centers | as stated by the source | September 17, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Loudoun County and Sterling about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loudoun County | Virginia Loudoun County moved future projects to special exception process | commercialobserver.com | |
| Loudoun County | Loudoun County holding two open house meetings on September 28 and 30, 2026 to discuss phase two data center policy standards | patch.com | |
| Loudoun County | Phase one of Loudoun County data center policy overhaul was approved in March 2025 and ended by right data center development except for already approved projects | patch.com | |
| Loudoun County | Loudoun County Board of Supervisors launched data center policy review project in 2024 | patch.com | |
| Loudoun County | Loudoun County had already removed data centers as a by right zoning option and is exploring removing by right status to grandfathered projects | datacenterdynamics.com | |
| Loudoun County | Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted 7-1-1 to direct staff to prepare a 12 month pause resolution on data center and substation applications, effective September 15, 2026. | yahoo.com |
1 earlier decision on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loudoun County | Virginia's Loudoun County is considering limits on new data centers after decades of rapid growth | baltimoresun.com |
What happened
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· Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
Aligned Data Centers lists Aligned IAD-03 at Sterling, Virginia on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]
The site
Where in Sterling is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Sterling, not a building, and the outline is Loudoun County.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Running, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 35 other published records in Virginia
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Sterling, Loudoun County, Virginia
- How exactly it is located
- Town level, the center of the city
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Aligned IAD-03?
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Aligned Data Centers is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Aligned IAD-03 say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Aligned IAD-03 stand today?
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It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: Aligned Data Centers lists Aligned IAD-03 at Sterling, Virginia on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]
What has Sterling or Loudoun County decided about it?
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Loudoun County (rated restrictive): Virginia Loudoun County moved future projects to special exception process (reported September 23, 2026, source); and Loudoun County: Loudoun County holding two open house meetings on September 28 and 30, 2026 to discuss phase two data center policy standards (reported September 21, 2026, source). 7 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Primary documents
- Aligned Data Centers: Data center locations, Aligned Data Centers, September 14, 2026
- Aligned Data Centers: Aligned IAD-03, Aligned Data Centers, September 14, 2026
2 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Aligned IAD-03", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/aligned-iad-03-sterling-va, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Aligned IAD-03", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/aligned-iad-03-sterling-va. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- aligned-iad-03-sterling-va
- Status value
- operational
- Stage
- Running
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/va/loudoun-county/sterling
- Coordinates
- 39.0052377, -77.4050439
- Location precision
- city
- Location source
- U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
- Coordinate source
- tigerweb city centroid
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 14, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Restrictive
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17