Data Center Registry
Aligned IAD-03
Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia · All 22 Aligned Data Centers sites
Aligned IAD-03 is an operating data center in Ashburn, Virginia (Loudoun County), operated by Aligned Data Centers.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Aligned Data Centers
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Ashburn, Loudoun County, VA
- Coordinates
- 38.9886, -77.4408
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Dominion Energy Virginia
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 1, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Aligned IAD-03 in Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Aligned's Ashburn campus connects to the Dominion Energy Virginia grid; Dominion offers green-energy program options but no site-specific dedicated generation or PPA was found for IAD-03 specifically.
Notes on the record
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.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Vantage Ashburn II (VA2) · Sterling · Vantage Data Centersunder 1 mile · Operating · 96 MW
- QTS Ashburn 1 · Sterling · QTS Data Centersunder 1 mile · Operating · 55 MW
- QTS Ashburn 2 (Ashburn-Lockridge) · Sterling · QTS Data Centersunder 1 mile · Operating
- STACK NVA01A · Sterling · STACK Infrastructure1 mi · Operating · 17 MW
- CloudHQ LC3 · Ashburn · CloudHQ2 mi · Under construction
- CloudHQ LC1 · Ashburn · CloudHQ2 mi · Operating
- Quantum Park Data Center Expansion · Ashburn · Quantum Park LLC2 mi · Proposed
- Equinix DC2 · Ashburn · Equinix2 mi · Operating
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Aligned IAD-03 data center in Ashburn?
Nothing on record as of September 1, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Aligned IAD-03 in Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Aligned IAD-03 data center?
No lawsuit over Aligned IAD-03 appears in the record we track as of September 1, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Aligned IAD-03 use?
No water withdrawal figure for Aligned IAD-03 is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Aligned IAD-03, and how big is it?
Aligned Data Centers is the operator on record. We hold 22 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Aligned IAD-03," updated September 1, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/aligned-iad-03-va.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/aligned-iad-03-va, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Aligned facility directory · Aligned · retrieved July 22, 2026
- 2.OpenStreetMap way/1276518684 · OpenStreetMap · retrieved July 22, 2026
- 3.Aligned AI/HPC, Sterling IAD-03 supports high/variable-density AI/HPC · aligneddc.com · retrieved July 23, 2026
- 4.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
- 5.datacenters.com, Aligned Energy IAD01/IAD02 Ashburn · retrieved July 24, 2026
- 6.Aligned AI/HPC, Sterling IAD-03 supports high/variable-density AI/HPC · aligneddc.com · retrieved September 1, 2026
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