A fifteenth paper trail · Prince William County, Virginia
The rezoning fell. The infrastructure questions stayed.
Prince William Digital Gateway is a useful reminder that a court decision can stop a project without making the public record complete. The rezoning was invalidated, the county stopped defending it, and the regional water system still leaves the project-specific terms open.
What the paper trail shows
The FracTracker record and its ArcGIS source row identify the proposed Digital Gateway in Gainesville. Data Center Dynamics reported that the rezoning was invalidated and Prince William County voted not to continue defending it. The record describes a 22-million-square-foot, multi-gigawatt campus, but that is historical planned-project context—not confirmed utility load, energized capacity, generation, or data-center IT load.
Prince William Water says western-county data centers use regional Fairfax Water service and wastewater treatment through the Upper Occoquan system. That describes the system, not this project's withdrawal, consumption, service quantity, or wastewater allocation. A dead rezoning does not tell us who paid for the process, what infrastructure was reserved, or whether another version of the plan can return.
Data Center Dynamics also reported county legal fees tied to the fight. Those are a public-process cost, not proof of project spending, a subsidy, or a private infrastructure commitment. The next filing should make those categories auditable instead of letting one headline stand in for the ledger.