If data centers are the lifeblood of American artificial intelligence computing, Loudoun County, Virginia is its main artery.
The rural county straddling Piedmont Virginia and the Washington Metropolitan area is home to 49 million square feet of data center infrastructure, making it the region with highest concentration of data centers in the world.
Ashburn, within Loudoun, has an area known as “data center alley” because of its high concentration of the infrastructure that holds computing and IT equipment that powers the processing behind AI, host cloud services, and store data…