Data Center Registry

1500 Woodlawn Drive Data Center Campus

Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland

ProposedContestedRecord updated October 22, 2026

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 2025
Proposed
Community 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.

Source: Nature Forward

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. As of 2026-09-10 the status remains proposed, consistent with 'no development plan submitted as of mid-2026' elsewhere 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 further investment, water, AI-classification, or subsidy figures were found.

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?

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 October 22, 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 October 22, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/security-land-woodlawn-baltimore-county-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/security-land-woodlawn-baltimore-county-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.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
3.Woodlawn data center proposal meets pushback over power, water concerns · Patch · retrieved October 22, 2026

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