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Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I)

Adamstown, Frederick County, Maryland · All 5 Rowan Digital Infrastructure sites

Under constructionOpposedAI mixed useRecord updated October 28, 2026

Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I) is a data center under construction in Adamstown, Maryland (Frederick County), operated by Rowan Digital Infrastructure. The public record puts it at announced 2024, 300 MW planned, 151 acres. It faces documented, organized local opposition.

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Facility record

Under construction

Operator: Rowan Digital Infrastructure
Facility type: Data center, AI use mixed
Location: Adamstown, Frederick County, MD
Coordinates: 39.2650, -77.3940 (approximate)
Power capacity: 300 MW planned
Land: 151 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: 2024
Utility: Potomac Edison (FirstEnergy)
Power source: Grid
Cooling: Evaporative
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.

October 6, 2026
Operating
Rowan Digital Infrastructure's own CEO blog post confirms Bauxite I at the Frederick campus was energized and turned over to its first tenant, delivering 200+MW, the campus's first phase coming online. Source: Rowan Digital Infrastructure
January 2024
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. Source: Data Center Dynamics
January 2023
Proposed
Rowan announced three-campus development plan at Quantum Frederick; designed as AWS Maryland availability zone host Source: Data Center Dynamics

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Organized local opposition to Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I) in Adamstown, Frederick County, Maryland is documented in the public record. Neighboring residents raised health concerns over construction dust and traffic in November 2025.

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.

Neighboring residents raised health concerns over construction dust and traffic in November 2025. Frederick County overlay zone referendum effort collected 21,000+ signatures; Maryland Supreme Court case pending.

Source: Data Center Dynamics

Power and water

Served from the regional grid; the Maryland PSC approved Potomac Edison's plan to loop two existing 230 kV lines from the Doubs substation into a new switching station feeding the on-site Bauxite substation (built by Potomac Edison). County filings describe up to 92 x 2.75 MW backup generators (~253 MW, diesel or HVO).

As of October 2026, no cited source states a water-use figure for this campus. An earlier figure attributed to county records could not be confirmed in a source a visitor can read, and a cooling-water allocation is not measured use, so no water-use figure is recorded.

Notes on the record

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 the Aligned Data Centers record there (as of August 2026). The city is given as 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". AWS is the confirmed tenant of Bauxite I on this former Alcoa Eastalco Works site, AWS's first Maryland data center. The record is listed as under construction. Rowan's CEO message of December 23, 2025 says the company "successfully energized and turned over" Bauxite I; Nature Forward's overview of the park, published June 26, 2026, states "As of June 2026, none of Quantum Frederick data centers are yet operational".

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

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.

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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.

Aligned Data Centers IAD-04 Frederick · Adamstown · Aligned Data Centersunder 1 mile · Under construction · 72 MW · Opposed
Dickerson Data Center · Dickerson · Atmosphere Data Centers6 mi · Proposed · 360 MW · Opposed
Quantum Frederick · Frederick · TPG Real Estate Partners / Catellus Development Corporation8 mi · Under construction · Contested
Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite III · Frederick · Rowan Digital Infrastructure8 mi · Permitted
Aligned Data Centers IAD-06 Frederick · Frederick · Aligned Data Centers8 mi · Under construction · 72 MW
Rowan Digital Infrastructure Bauxite II · Frederick · Rowan Digital Infrastructure8 mi · Permitted
Greenlin Park · Leesburg · JK Land Holdings16 mi · Permitted · 300 MW
Cross Mill Center · Leesburg · JK Land Holdings16 mi · Permitted · Contested

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I) in Adamstown?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I)?

The reception note on this record refers to a court proceeding. Read it in full under opposition and litigation above, and check the sources at the foot of the page for the filing itself.

How much water does Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as evaporative, 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 Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I), and how big is it?

Rowan Digital Infrastructure is the operator on record. We hold 5 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 300 MW. The site is recorded at 151 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I)," updated October 28, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/rowan-digital-frederick-md.

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/rowan-digital-frederick-md, 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.Rowan secures $1.2bn for Maryland data center campus build-out · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
2.Rowan Digital Infrastructure is building AWS's Maryland availability zone at Quantum Frederick Campus · The Tech Capital · retrieved July 6, 2026
3.Potomac Edison granted waiver to connect Doubs substation with Rowan data center · Frederick News-Post · retrieved July 7, 2026
4.Amazon identified as tenant of Bauxite data center · Yahoo News · retrieved October 22, 2026
5.Quantum Frederick, Frederick County, MD: Maryland Data Center Series, Pt. 3, AWS BWI (Rowan Bauxite I): 151 acres, four buildings, 300 MW · Nature Forward · retrieved August 26, 2026
6.Five Years In, A message from Rowan CEO Charley Daitch · Rowan Digital Infrastructure · retrieved October 6, 2026

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