Data Center Registry
Digital Realty VA4
Bristow, Prince William County, Virginia · All 54 Digital Realty sites
Digital Realty VA4 is an operating data center in Bristow, Virginia (Prince William County), operated by Digital Realty.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Digital Realty
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 8217 Linton Hall Road, Bristow, Prince William County, VA, 20136
- Coordinates
- 38.7781, -77.5949
- 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
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- 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 July 23, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Digital Realty VA4 in Bristow, Prince William 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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Notes on the record
8217 Linton Hall Rd, Bristow VA. Fully leased/operational per multiple third-party trackers; not shown on current digitalrealty.com NoVA table (older/smaller facility).
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
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves 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.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- 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.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Our reporting on this site
- The Prince William Digital Gateway Lawsuit · Plaintiff win
- Great Oak v. the Hum · Dispute, no suit filed
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.
- Gainesville Crossing Digital Campus (GCDC) · Gainesville · Corscale Data Centers (Patrinely / USAA Real Estate)1 mi · Under construction · 300 MW · Contested
- Iron Mountain VA-2 · Manassas · Iron Mountain3 mi · Operating
- Iron Mountain VA-3 · Manassas · Iron Mountain3 mi · Operating
- Iron Mountain VA-4 · Manassas · Iron Mountain3 mi · Operating · 32 MW
- Iron Mountain VA-6 · Manassas · Iron Mountain3 mi · Operating · 32 MW
- Microsoft Bristow Data Center Campus (MNZ03) · Bristow · Microsoft4 mi · Operating · Mixed reception
- Amazon Devlin Technology Park · Bristow · Amazon Web Services4 mi · Permitted · Contested
- Vint Hill Corners · Vint Hill · Vint Hill Corners LLC4 mi · Proposed · Contested
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Digital Realty VA4 data center in Bristow?
Nothing on record as of July 23, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Digital Realty VA4 in Bristow, Prince William 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 Digital Realty VA4 data center?
No lawsuit over Digital Realty VA4 appears in the record we track as of July 23, 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 Digital Realty VA4 use?
No water withdrawal figure for Digital Realty VA4 is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Digital Realty VA4, and how big is it?
Digital Realty is the operator on record. We hold 54 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, "Digital Realty VA4," updated July 23, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/digital-realty-va4-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/digital-realty-va4-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.datacenterHawk facility profile (not on current DLR NoVA directory page, corroborated by UPSTACK/datacentermap) · Digital Realty · retrieved July 22, 2026
- 2.OpenStreetMap way/46831933 · OpenStreetMap · retrieved July 22, 2026
- 3.Virginia DEQ air permit 73180-4 (issued 2008-08-07) · Virginia DEQ · retrieved July 30, 2026
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