Developer Drops Plans to Build World's Largest Data Center Campus Outside Nation's Capital
The decision ends a yearslong legal battle between residents, the developers, and a county board of supervisors
WASHINGTON, July 6, 2026 — The decision of data center developers QTS and Compass Datacenters to pull out of a massive 2,100 acre project in Prince William County may have marked an inflection point in Northern Virginia’s experience with data centers.
The project, which began in July 2021, would have put 37 data centers on land adjacent to historic Manassas National Battlefield, located about 30 miles from Washington, D.C. Each data center would have occupied about 150,000 square feet, an area roughly one football field wide and three football fields long, according to a Prince William Times article.
