This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Aligned Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Ashburn · Loudoun County · Virginia
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 60 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 1 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000038
What the source record says
Ashburn campus confirmed operational (IAD-01, 370,000 sq ft, 60MW) via Aligned press/case study pages; generic candidate name mapped to the first/flagship building. AI/HPC (likely): Ashburn IAD-01 supports AI/HPC/GPU via adaptive high-density design.
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
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
- Aligned facility directory · Aligned
- OpenStreetMap way/793622740 · OpenStreetMap
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- datacenters.com — Aligned Energy IAD01 Ashburn
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID aligned-iad-01-va. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
This does not mean the row is wrong. It means DataCenterData has not promoted it through the independent evidence workflow.