Supervisors voted unanimously to ask staff for a legal analysis of ending the 2025 grandfathering rule, due at the October 6, 2026 board meeting. Until the board acts, the rule stays in effect.

Sept 2, 2026Source

⏸️ Pause on new data centers

Supervisors voted 7-1 to pause new data center applications for 12 months while the county rewrites its data center rules. The county attorney had warned that true moratoria are rarely allowed in Virginia.

Sept 2026Source

🗺️ Zoning change

Supervisors voted 7-2 to end by-right data centers. New data centers now need a 'special exception', with public hearings before the planning commission and the board.

March 18, 2025Source

📌 Other

On the same night, supervisors voted 5-4 to 'grandfather' data center applications already in review, so they can still be approved by staff without a public hearing. In September 2026, 17 such applications (about 11 million square feet) were still in review.

March 18, 2025Source

✅ Approved

Supervisors voted 5-4 to rezone 83 acres south of Leesburg along the Dulles Greenway for JK Land Holdings' Greenlin Park: up to 1.4 million square feet of data centers with a 55-foot height limit, noise limits and a 300-megawatt power cap for five years.

Feb 19, 2025Source

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What you can do

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Go to county meetings.
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Use our checklist.

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⚡ Your electric company

Depending on where you live in Unincorporated Loudoun County: Virginia Electric & Power Co. (company) or Northern Virginia Electric Co-op (co-op (owned by its members)).

Big data centers need a lot of power. Who pays for new power lines depends on state rules. See the rules in Virginia.

🙋 Open tasks here

Will this plan need a public hearing or a Board of Supervisors vote?
How much power and water would the four buildings need?
Will new power lines or a substation be needed?
When will the Board of Supervisors vote?
Where would the separate substation the company wants be built?
Who is the developer?
When will the plan return to the Planning Commission and the board?
Did the Board of Supervisors approve or deny the rezoning?
Who will use the data center?
How much power will it need, and from which substation?
Who will use the data center?
Has construction started?
What did supervisors decide on May 19, 2026?
Who will use the campus, and has construction started?
Will the Board of Supervisors vote on it, or will the developer withdraw?
Exactly where is the campus?
Has construction started?
Who are the tenants?

How to help →

11 data center projects in Unincorporated Loudoun County

In Unincorporated Loudoun County

Amazon Bridgefield Tech Center (former GW Virginia campus, Ashburn)

B.F. Saul data centers on Shaw Road (Sterling)

Cochran Tech data center (Cochran Mill Road, near Leesburg)

Prologis Concorde Industrial Park data center conversion (Sterling)

Cross Mill Center data center (near Leesburg Executive Airport)

Greenlin Park data center campus (Dulles Greenway, south of Leesburg)

Quantum Park data centers (Ashburn)

Belmont Innovation Campus (Belmont Ridge Road)

Active Infrastructure campus on Evergreen Mills Road

STACK Infrastructure 144 MW Loudoun campus

EdgeCore AS01 and AS02 data centers (Sterling)

Nearby (within 15 miles)

Oaklawn data center (Land Bay A, Leesburg)

Leesburg Gateway data center plan (Peterson Companies)

Local votes and rules

📌 Other

⏸️ Pause on new data centers

🗺️ Zoning change

📌 Other

✅ Approved

What you can do

🔔 Get told first

👥 What neighbors here report

⚡ Your electric company

🙋 Open tasks here