Proposed-site record

Prince William Digital Gateway

The Prince William Digital Gateway remains a blocked or paused, legally invalidated rezoning trail. County water records provide regional supply and wastewater context, while the April 2026 reporting documents the county's decision not to continue its defense. The historical multi-gigawatt campus description is not confirmed utility load or IT load.

Blocked or pausedconfirmedHigh concern

Site Snapshot

Location
Gainesville, Prince William County, Virginia
Operator / sponsor
Compass, QTS Data Centers
Status / stage
Blocked or paused · blocked / paused
Scale
Mega campus (>1,000 MW); 22,000,000 sq ft; 1760 acres
Reported project context; confirm whether any MW figure is requested, approved, energized, IT load, generation, or ultimate buildout before comparing it with another record.Capacity reading: Project-scale context · MW type not established · Proposed floor area · Site area

Compute Workload

This panel tracks what the facility is for without assuming that every project is AI training, inference, or cloud capacity.

Undisclosed / unknownUnknown

No source-backed workload, customer, hardware, or training/inference allocation is attached to this record yet.

Workload classification remains unknown in the reviewed record.

Public Money

No public funding record attached yet. Local subsidy, tax-abatement, land, bond, and utility records need follow-up.

Water

Source reviewed September 9, 2026: Prince William Water says western-county data centers are supplied by Fairfax Water from the Potomac River, with wastewater treated by the Upper Occoquan Service Authority and released as reclaimed water. The utility says it can support development envisioned in the county plan, but project-specific applications determine requirements; no Digital Gateway withdrawal, consumption, service quantity, or wastewater allocation is disclosed.

Power

Source reviewed September 9, 2026: Data Center Dynamics reports the county voted not to continue defending the Digital Gateway rezoning after the rezoning was invalidated and an appeals court upheld that result. The project's 22-million-square-foot and multi-gigawatt descriptions remain historical planned campus context, not confirmed requested, approved, energized, generation, or data-center IT-load capacity.

Bloom / Fuel Cells

No fuel-cell or Bloom Energy source is attached to this project yet.

NDA / Secrecy

No NDA reported

Missing NDA / secrecy, Public moneyFields with source leads: Water, Power
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Sources and Leads

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