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Brightseat Tech Park

Landover, Prince George's County, Maryland

PermittedOpposedAI mixed useRecord updated September 13, 2026

Brightseat Tech Park is a permitted data center in Landover, Maryland (Prince George's County), operated by Lerner Enterprises / The Tower Companies (Brightseat Associates LLC). The public record puts it at announced March 2024, 820 MW planned, 87 acres, a reported $5 billion investment. It faces documented, organized local opposition.

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Facility record

Permitted

Operator
Lerner Enterprises / The Tower Companies (Brightseat Associates LLC)
Facility type
Data center, AI use mixed
Location
Landover, Prince George's County, MD
Coordinates
38.9310, -76.8680
Power capacity
820 MW planned
Land
87 acres
Investment
$5 billion
Announced
March 2024
Utility
Pepco (Exelon)
Power source
Grid
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
Opposed
Source confidence
Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. October 2024
    Permitted
    Final plan approvals received October 2024 under 2021 county law bypassing Council review. Groundbreaking target 2026 or 2027. Source: Data Center Dynamics
  2. March 2024
    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) Source: Data Center Dynamics

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Organized local opposition to Brightseat Tech Park in Landover, Prince George's County, Maryland is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. 22,500+ petition signatures collected.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.

22,500+ petition signatures collected. County Executive Aisha Braveboy issued executive order in September 2025 pausing development. Separately, the Prince George's County COUNCIL passed a county-wide TWO-YEAR moratorium on hyperscale data center development -- a distinct action from the County Executive's September 2025 executive-order pause above, and reported by WTOP on 2026-07-07 (the article states no vote date, so 2026-07-07 is the REPORTING date, not the vote date). WTOP quotes a council member pointing to "the data center project proposed for the old Landover Mall site, which the county is trying to stop, as one she considered harmful" -- i.e. this site. Qualified Data Center Task Force created. Predominantly Black community (63% African American census tract); environmental justice concerns raised.

Source: AfroTech

Power and water

Prince George's County is Pepco (Exelon) service territory. The 820 MW campus holds final plan approvals but has been politically frozen since a September 2025 county-executive order and a council moratorium, so interconnection/PJM and on-site generation details remain undisclosed.

Notes on the record

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.

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.

  • Cooling method and water use
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
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.

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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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Brightseat Tech Park data center in Landover?

Yes. Organized local opposition to Brightseat Tech Park in Landover, Prince George's County, Maryland is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. 22,500+ petition signatures collected.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Brightseat Tech Park data center?

No lawsuit over Brightseat Tech Park appears in the record we track as of September 13, 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 Brightseat Tech Park use?

No water withdrawal figure for Brightseat Tech Park 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 Brightseat Tech Park, and how big is it?

Lerner Enterprises / The Tower Companies (Brightseat Associates LLC) is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 820 MW. The site is recorded at 87 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Brightseat Tech Park," updated September 13, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/lerner-brightseat-tech-park-md.

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/lerner-brightseat-tech-park-md, 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. 1.Lerner's Maryland data center campus could total 820MW · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
  2. 2.Prince George's County Executive Orders Temporary Halt to Landover Mall Data Center Project · AfroTech · retrieved July 6, 2026
  3. 3.Brightseat Tech Park, Prince George's County, MD: Maryland Data Center Series, Pt. 4 · Nature Forward · retrieved August 26, 2026
  4. 4.Two-year moratorium on data center development passes in Prince George's Co. · WTOP News · retrieved September 13, 2026
  5. 5.Chair Oriadha Announces Two-Year Moratorium to Prevent New Data Centers from Operating in the County · Prince George's County Council · retrieved September 13, 2026

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