Data Center Registry
Middletown Data Center
Middletown, Frederick County County, Virginia
Middletown Data Center is an operating data center in Middletown, Virginia (Frederick County County), operated by Middletown Data Center LLC. The public record puts it at 10 MW operating.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Middletown Data Center LLC
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Middletown, Frederick County County, VA
- Coordinates
- 39.0203, -78.2907 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 10 MW operating
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- September 25, 2026OperatingDescribed as a 43,000 sq ft facility in operation for over a decade. It applied for a CUP to expand onto a neighboring property and was not included in the grandfathering resolution. Source: Northern Virginia Daily
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of October 14, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Middletown Data Center in Middletown, Frederick County 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
11 chillers in a closed-loop, non-evaporative system with 30% glycol and no make-up water (operator specs).
Notes on the record
Operator specs: 14 MW total power, 10 MW critical IT, 43,416 sq ft of data center space. A Sept 2025 BZA variance allowed a supplemental backup generator. The coordinates are the OSM geocode of 8209 Valley Pike, the address listed by directories and not confirmed on a fetched primary page.
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.
- 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
- 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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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.
- Project Tallmadge · Strasburg · Takanock, LLC4 mi · Proposed · 180 MW
- Winchester Gateway · Winchester · Winchester Gateway LLC10 mi · Proposed
- Virginia Technology Park · Clear Brook · Equus Capital Partners19 mi · Proposed
- Summit Point Data Center Site (Ryan Stuart Development) · Summit Point · Ryan Stuart Development24 mi · Proposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Middletown Data Center in Middletown?
Nothing on record as of October 14, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Middletown Data Center in Middletown, Frederick County 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 Middletown Data Center?
No lawsuit over Middletown Data Center appears in the record we track as of October 14, 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 Middletown Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Middletown Data Center 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 Middletown Data Center, and how big is it?
Middletown Data Center LLC is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 10 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Middletown Data Center," updated October 14, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/middletown-data-center-frederick-va.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/middletown-data-center-frederick-va, retrieved October 29, 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.Middletown Data Center, Technical Specifications · Middletown Data Center · retrieved October 14, 2026
- 2.Data centers stripped as allowable use in Frederick County · Northern Virginia Daily · retrieved October 14, 2026
- 3.Board of Zoning Appeals OKs variance for additional generator at existing data center · Miles & Stockbridge (via The Winchester Star) · retrieved October 14, 2026
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