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
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 1 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000039
What the source record says
IAD-03 confirmed via Aligned's own location page; 430,000 sq ft, 72MW, phase one delivered Fall 2023. AI/HPC (likely): Sterling IAD-03 supports high/variable-density AI/HPC.
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/1276518684 · OpenStreetMap
- Aligned AI/HPC — Sterling IAD-03 supports high/variable-density AI/HPC · aligneddc.com
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- datacenters.com — Aligned Energy IAD01/IAD02 Ashburn
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID aligned-iad-03-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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