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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Prince William Digital Gateway.
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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- QTS / Compass Datacenters
- Address and locality
- Gainesville · Prince William County · Virginia
- Source-reported status
- cancelled
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001152
What the source record says
Would have been largest data center campus in the world at over 22 million sq ft across approximately 2,000-2,100 acres (per WTOP). Cancellation is landmark precedent on Virginia public-notice requirements. Coordinates are approximate for Pageland Lane corridor. Re-checked 2026-09-10: the record is accurate and current. QTS's July 2, 2026 Virginia Supreme Court petition withdrawal (by GW Acquisition Co., LLC and GW Acquisition Co. I, LLC) is correctly reflected in statusHistory; no further developments found since.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2021-01 · source-reported proposed
QTS and Compass proposed 2,100-acre, 37-data-center campus adjacent to Manassas National Battlefield Park along Pageland Lane corridor
- 2023-12 · source-reported permitted
County Board of Supervisors narrowly approved rezoning in marathon 27-hour session; incoming supervisors had not yet taken office; rezoning later challenged in court
- 2026-07 · source-reported cancelled
QTS withdrew Virginia Supreme Court appeal July 2, 2026 after Court of Appeals unanimously halted project March 2026. Circuit court had voided rezoning August 2024 citing inadequate public notice under Va. Code § 15.2-2204. Project officially terminated.
Sources and attribution
- Digital Gateway data center project dies after final developer withdraws appeal · WTOP News
- Officials in Prince William County drop support for QTS/Compass Digital Gateway data center project · Data Center Dynamics
- Data Center Frontier — PW Digital Gateway Advances as Prince William Supervisors Back Massive Project
- InsideNoVa — Digital Gateway data center developer to end appeal
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID prince-william-digital-gateway-va. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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