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Equinix Ashburn

Equinix lists 14 data centers at Ashburn, 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.

Last verified · 30 sources, 15 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

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
Equinix
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

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast 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

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Equinix 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 Ashburn about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

DateWhoDecisionSource
Loudoun County restrictive Virginia Loudoun County moved future projects to special exception process commercialobserver.com
Loudoun County restrictive 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 restrictive 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 restrictive Loudoun County Board of Supervisors launched data center policy review project in 2024 patch.com
Loudoun County restrictive 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 restrictive 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
DateWhoDecisionSource
Loudoun County restrictive Virginia's Loudoun County is considering limits on new data centers after decades of rapid growth baltimoresun.com

What happened

  1. · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Equinix lists Equinix DC1, Equinix DC2, Equinix DC3, Equinix DC4, Equinix DC5, Equinix DC6, Equinix DC10, Equinix DC11, Equinix DC12, Equinix DC13, Equinix DC15, Equinix DC16, Equinix DC21, Equinix DC22 at Ashburn, Virginia on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]

The full Equinix Ashburn timeline, in order

The site

Where in Ashburn is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Ashburn, not a building, and the outline is Loudoun County.

  • 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
Ashburn, 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.

Keep going

The county Loudoun County 15 projects on the record. The state Data centers in Virginia Every Virginia project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

4 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

Who is building Equinix Ashburn?

Equinix is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does Equinix Ashburn say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

What has Ashburn or Loudoun County decided about it?

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 first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. Equinix: United States and Canada colocation data centers, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  2. Equinix: Equinix DC1, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  3. Equinix: Equinix DC2, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  4. Equinix: Equinix DC3, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  5. Equinix: Equinix DC4, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  6. Equinix: Equinix DC5, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  7. Equinix: Equinix DC6, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  8. Equinix: Equinix DC10, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  9. Equinix: Equinix DC11, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  10. Equinix: Equinix DC12, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  11. Equinix: Equinix DC13, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  12. Equinix: Equinix DC15, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  13. Equinix: Equinix DC16, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  14. Equinix: Equinix DC21, Equinix, September 14, 2026
  15. Equinix: Equinix DC22, Equinix, September 14, 2026

Reporting

  1. Equinix, AWS embrace liquid cooling to power AI implementations - Network World, Network World, July 15, 2025, query feed
  2. Accelsius deploys liquid cooling systems at Equinix lab in Virginia - datacenterdynamics.com, datacenterdynamics.com, July 22, 2025, query feed
  3. Leading Partners Join Forces With Equinix to Test Sustainable Data Center Innovations Including Fuel Cell and Liquid Cooling Technologies - fuelcellsworks.com, fuelcellsworks.com, January 20, 2022, query feed
  4. Equinix further expands its big Ashburn data center campus - WTOP News, WTOP News, November 17, 2020, query feed
  5. Equinix Invests $200 Million in Washington, D.C. Area Data Center Expansions - PR Newswire, PR Newswire, November 17, 2020, query feed
  6. Equinix opens another data center in Ashburn, Virginia - datacenterdynamics.com, datacenterdynamics.com, October 26, 2017, query feed
  7. Equinix Plans 1 Million Square Foot Data Center Campus In Ashburn - Data Center Knowledge, Data Center Knowledge, March 17, 2014, query feed
  8. Equinix Doubles Down in One of Internet's Most Important Locations - Data Center Knowledge, Data Center Knowledge, October 15, 2015, query feed
  9. Equinix plans campus expansion in Ashburn, Virginia - datacenterdynamics.com, datacenterdynamics.com, October 14, 2015, query feed
  10. Equinix Heats Up Data Center Alley's Landgrab Rush - Data Center Knowledge, Data Center Knowledge, February 27, 2017, query feed
  11. Equinix Buys Land in Ashburn for IBX Data Center Expansion - Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Finance, March 3, 2017, query feed
  12. Equinix Expands in Ashburn, Plans Fleet of Four-Story Data Centers - Data Center Frontier, Data Center Frontier, November 17, 2020, query feed
3 more sources
  1. Data Center of the Future: Equinix Test-Drives New Power, Cooling Solutions - Data Center Frontier, Data Center Frontier, January 20, 2022, query feed
  2. Equinix Eyes Bigger Footprint In Ashburn’s Data Center Alley - Hoodline, Hoodline, March 25, 2026, query feed
  3. Ashburn Church Property May Become Data Center - Data Center Frontier, Data Center Frontier, October 9, 2017, trade press

30 sources on file.

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Data Center Record, "Equinix Ashburn", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/equinix-ashburn-va, last verified September 17, 2026.

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Slug
equinix-ashburn-va
Status value
operational
Stage
Running
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/va/loudoun-county/ashburn
Coordinates
39.0277227, -77.4714168
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