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
- Digital Realty
- Address and locality
- Manassas · Prince William County · Virginia
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 96 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000461
What the source record says
Nvidia's 'Aurora AI factory', built by Digital Realty on an existing Digital Realty site near Nokesville Road and Prince William Parkway. Billed as the first facility built to a new industry certification for flexible power, developed by Nvidia with Emerald AI, EPRI and grid operator PJM, and deploying Emerald AI's Emerald Conductor software to shift AI workloads in response to grid conditions. Operator is recorded as Digital Realty (owner/builder); Nvidia is the named tenant. Status is held at under_construction because no source consulted confirms it has entered service, only that operations were 'slated for' the first half of 2026.
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
- 2025-10-30 · reported under construction
DCD reported the 96MW Aurora data center as under construction, being built by Digital Realty and slated for operations in the first half of 2026.
Sources and attribution
- Nvidia to deploy Emerald AI's orchestration software at 96MW Aurora data center in Manassas, Virginia · Data Center Dynamics (via Internet Archive)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID digital-realty-aurora-ai-factory-manassas-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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