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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Lerner Enterprises / The Tower Companies (Brightseat Associates LLC)
- Address and locality
- Landover · Prince George's County · Maryland
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 820 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 13 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000861
What the source record says
2101 Brightseat Road, Landover MD. Project has final plan approvals but is politically frozen pending task force report. Five buildings on 87 acres of former mall site. As a permitted-but-frozen project, no facility-specific water design, subsidy award, or committed job figures have been disclosed; job figures circulating in press are Maryland Tech Council sector benchmarks, not Brightseat commitments. Re-checked 2026-09-10: status remains PERMITTED (no enum value exists for 'construction paused by opposition/moratorium'). Groundbreaking has not occurred; community opposition (23,000+ petition signatures) and PG County Council ordinances CB-019-2026/CB-020-2026 (introduced March 2026 to repeal the qualified-data-center site-plan-review exemption) continue to threaten the timeline. Subsidies: found only a general-program reference (MD/PG County 2020 sales-and-use tax exemption for qualified data centers, Tax-General Article Sec.11-239(a)(5)(i)) with no site-specific dollar figure for this project, so no subsidies entry is reported -- record as a program-level fact only. No street-address source was independently fetched this run (existing statusHistory note already cites 2101 Brightseat Road from an earlier source), so location.street is left for a future run with a fresh citation.
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
- 2024-03 · reported proposed
Prince George's County Planning Board approved 4.1 million sq ft, five-building campus at 2101 Brightseat Road (former Landover Mall site, demolished 2006)
- 2024-10 · reported permitted
Final plan approvals received October 2024 under 2021 county law bypassing Council review. Groundbreaking target 2026 or 2027.
Sources and attribution
- Lerner's Maryland data center campus could total 820MW · Data Center Dynamics
- Prince George's County Executive Orders Temporary Halt to Landover Mall Data Center Project · AfroTech
- Brightseat Tech Park, Prince George's County, MD: Maryland Data Center Series, Pt. 4 · Nature Forward
- Two-year moratorium on data center development passes in Prince George's Co. · WTOP News
- Chair Oriadha Announces Two-Year Moratorium to Prevent New Data Centers from Operating in the County · Prince George's County Council
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID lerner-brightseat-tech-park-md. 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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