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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Rowan Digital Infrastructure
- Address and locality
- Adamstown · Frederick County · Maryland
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 26 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001266
What the source record says
Rowan (Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners + Birch Infrastructure JV) serves as AWS hyperscale host at Quantum Frederick. Three campuses planned on-site total; Bauxite I is Phase 1 at 300MW. 777,150 sq ft total campus footprint. Coordinates approximate for same Quantum Frederick campus area as Aligned record. Location.city set to Adamstown per the more recent, project-specific Frederick News-Post coverage (2025-11-11, via Yahoo Finance); the 2021 Maryland Dept. of Commerce announcement had said "near Buckeystown" — recorded here so the choice is auditable rather than looking arbitrary. AWS is the confirmed tenant of Bauxite I on this former Alcoa Eastalco Works site — AWS's first Maryland data center; no source confirms go-live as of this pass.
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
- 2023-01 · reported proposed
Rowan announced three-campus development plan at Quantum Frederick; designed as AWS Maryland availability zone host
- 2024-01 · reported under construction
Ground broken 2024 on Bauxite I (300MW, Phase 1). Phase 2 financing: $1.24B closed February 2025, led by SMBC and MUFG; $2.2B total secured. AWS Maryland availability zone expected 2026.
Sources and attribution
- Rowan secures $1.2bn for Maryland data center campus build-out · Data Center Dynamics
- Rowan Digital Infrastructure is building AWS's Maryland availability zone at Quantum Frederick Campus · The Tech Capital
- Potomac Edison granted waiver to connect Doubs substation with Rowan data center · Frederick News-Post
- Amazon identified as tenant of Bauxite data center · Yahoo News
- Quantum Frederick, Frederick County, MD: Maryland Data Center Series, Pt. 3 — AWS BWI (Rowan Bauxite I): 151 acres, four buildings, 300 MW · Nature Forward
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID rowan-digital-frederick-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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