Fairfax County, Virginia
Fairfax County, Virginia has 1.9 GW of data centers on record, planned to operating, across 50 records, against 133.2 MW of generation operating inside the county. Nothing is in the interconnection queue for the county. That is 3.3% of Virginia's data center MW.
Fairfax County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 2 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.
Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers
more data center MW than operating generation in the county. Fairfax County's own plants cover 6.9% of the load on record, and nothing is in the queue.
Data centers by status
50 records, 1.9 GW
The data center pipeline
36 records list a year online or expected, from 1998 to 2028. The largest expected additions are 272 MW listed for 2027 and 252.7 MW for 2026. 14 records list no year.
Data center MW by year online or expected
Records not cancelled, by listed year. 2026 onward is planned or under construction.
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| Year | Records | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 2 | 6 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 6 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 1 | 18 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 2 | 22 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 23 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 2 | 24 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2 | 9 |
| 2015 | 2 | 53 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1 | 87 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 11 |
| 2023 | 2 | 98 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 4 | 271 |
| 2026 | 3 | 253 |
| 2027 | 8 | 272 |
| 2028 | 1 | 37 |
Who is building in Fairfax
Data center developers by MW on record. Top 6 of 22.
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| Developer | Sites | MW |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 11 | 600 |
| Starwood Capital Group | 8 | 573 |
| HighBrook Investors | 2 | 186 |
| CoreSite | 4 | 155 |
| Serverfarm | 2 | 78 |
| Menlo Digital | 1 | 67 |
Power generation in the county
8 plants operate inside Fairfax County, 133.2 MW. Nothing is in the queue for the county.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Fairfax County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal Solid Waste | Operating | 2 | 124 |
| Solar | Operating | 2 | 6 |
| Landfill Gas | Operating | 4 | 3.2 |
Fairfax County against its neighbors
Loudoun County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 18 GW, more than Fairfax County. None of the neighbors has more generation operating than data center MW on record.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loudoun County | 318 | 1,830 | 22.2x | ||
| Prince William County | 165 | 1,666 | 10.4x | ||
| Fairfax County this page | 50 | 0 | 14.4x |
Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.
3 counties shownEvery record in Fairfax County
Campus or project name, developer, status, MW, year and the developer’s contacts, for all 58 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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