Data centers in Washington, District of Columbia
Washington has 3 data centers on the record: 3 running. No city rule about data centers is on the record for Washington yet. District Of Columbia County's own decisions are on the District Of Columbia County page.
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The 3 data centers in Washington
Every Washington record 3 records · blank cell: not disclosed · sort by any column
| Facility and county | Stage | Operator | Power (MW) | Latest entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoreSite Washington DC1 Data Center Washington, District of Columbia | Running | CoreSite | ||
| CoreSite Washington DC2 Data Center Washington, District of Columbia | Running | CoreSite | ||
| Zayo Washington DC Colocation Facility (2100 M Street NW) Washington, District of Columbia | Running | Zayo Group |
A blank cell means not disclosed by any source on file. Power is the developer's figure or a permit's, each linked on the record.
| Record | Place | Stage | Operator | MW | Basis | Located | Tier | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoreSite Washington DC1 Data Center | Washington, District of Columbia | Running | CoreSite | site | 2 | 2026-10-28 | ||
| CoreSite Washington DC2 Data Center | Washington, District of Columbia | Running | CoreSite | site | 2 | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Zayo Washington DC Colocation Facility (2100 M Street NW) | Washington, District of Columbia | Running | Zayo Group | site | 3 | 2026-10-28 |
Tier 1: an official or company source. Tier 2: a news report resolving to the outlet's own page. Located: a site coordinate from a permit, a parcel or an address, or the county or town centroid. Verified: the last day a person read the source. A blank cell means not disclosed by any source on file.
What Washington has decided
June 15, 2026 Washington, DC Montgomery County passes 18 month pause on data center development | NBC4 Washington
In Washington, District of Columbia (DC), Washington City Council and local residents debated municipal data center siting, utility infrastructure load, water consumption, and zoning rules during the June 15, 2026 session.
- Washington City Council Applicant and Economic Development Presentation Developer Representative auto captions, unchecked
"And it passed unanimously. >> The Montgomery County Council banning new data center development for the next year and a half. >> Nothing will happen until we answer all the questions our community deserves. There are a lot of questions about what happens to the water in the Potomac River, what happens to our utility"
- Washington City Council Official Deliberation Elected Official auto captions, unchecked
">> The vote was a compromise after some council members pushed for a longer moratorium to give the county time to figure out a comprehensive way to deal with hyperscale data centers in the future. >> What we did was personally merge them. And uh we compromised, and we went from 6 months to 2 years, and the compromise was 18 months. >> No data center, no data data center."
- Resident public comment Resident Public Comment auto captions, unchecked
"is doing a comprehensive study on the impacts of data centers. That report is due sometime in September. >> There was a time when data centers received tax incentives to come. Now we're we want to make sure because of the energy usage uh that there's adequate public benefit in addition to protecting our community, and we need to work with the state uh and with this body to make sure that that happens."
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The county and nearby counties
Distances run between the centers the Census Bureau gives each place. Every District of Columbia county.
Disclosed figures
nothing disclosed by 3 records
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Without a figure | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | 0 | 3 | ||
| Water, stated per day | 0 | 3 | ||
| Water, stated per year | 0 | 3 | ||
| Permanent jobs | 0 | 3 | ||
| Tax each year | 0 | 3 |
A blank total means no record disclosed the figure; the count without one says how many.
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
By what the facilities are for
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No stated use | 3 |
A blank cell means no record with that use disclosed the figure.
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
What the facilities are for
No source on file states what any of the 3 tracked facilities in Washington are for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 3 tracked facilities in Washington are cooled.
About this data
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Data Center Record, "Data center records in Washington, District Of Columbia County, District of Columbia", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/dc/district-of-columbia-county/washington. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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For researchers
- Level
- city
- Census GEOID
- 1150000
- Census geography
- Incorporated place, Washington city
- Rating
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