Data Center Registry
1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus
Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland
1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus is a proposed data center in Woodlawn, Maryland (Baltimore County), operated by Security Land and Development LP. The public record puts it at announced December 2025, 150 MW planned, 42 acres. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Security Land and Development LP
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 1500 Woodlawn Drive, Woodlawn, Baltimore County, MD
- Coordinates
- 39.3196, -76.7448 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 150 MW planned
- Land
- 42 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- December 2025
- Utility
- Baltimore Gas and Electric
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 1,000 construction
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Contested
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
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.
- December 2025ProposedCommunity neighborhood meeting held on the proposal; razing permit applications filed April and June 2025. No development plan submitted as of mid-2026. Source: Nature Forward
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. 1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Residents raised concerns about water use, home values and utility bills at a December 2025 neighborhood meeting.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.
Residents raised concerns about water use, home values and utility bills at a December 2025 neighborhood meeting. Baltimore County enacted a one-year data center permit moratorium in January 2026 and Bill 3-26 requires public hearings and disclosure of cooling technology.
Power and water
Proposal includes donating 5 acres to BGE for a new electrical substation; grid connection infrastructure is still required.
Notes on the record
Redevelopment of the 42-acre former Social Security Administration headquarters campus in Woodlawn, plus an adjacent Rodeway Inn parcel. Construction had been targeted for June/July 2026 before Baltimore County's permit moratorium. Re-checked 2026-09-10: status confirmed PROPOSED, no change -- consistent with 'no development plan submitted as of mid-2026' already in the record. Baltimore County's yearlong data-center permit moratorium (in effect since mid-2026) is set to end January 2027, which is why the June/July 2026 construction target slipped. No new investmentUsd, water, aiClassification, or subsidies figures found this run.
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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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the 1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus in Woodlawn?
Yes. 1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Residents raised concerns about water use, home values and utility bills at a December 2025 neighborhood meeting.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the 1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus?
No lawsuit over 1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of September 10, 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 1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for 1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus 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 1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus, and how big is it?
Security Land and Development LP is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 150 MW. The site is recorded at 42 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/security-land-woodlawn-baltimore-county-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/security-land-woodlawn-baltimore-county-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.Woodlawn Data Center, Baltimore, MD: Maryland Data Center Series Pt. 2 · Nature Forward · retrieved August 26, 2026
- 2.New data center could be coming to Woodlawn area in Baltimore County · FOX45 Baltimore · retrieved August 26, 2026
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