Equinix is looking to bulk up its Ashburn footprint with a fresh data center building and utility upgrades right in the heart of Northern Virginia’s famed Data Center Alley. If Loudoun County signs off, the plan would boost capacity at one of the country’s densest clusters of cloud and network infrastructure and tighten Equinix’s already strong grip on the local market.
As reported by Washington Business Journal, Equinix is asking the county to approve a third data center building, tagged DC-23, along with supporting utility infrastructure at its Beaumeade Circle campus. Equinix remains one of Loudoun County’s largest property taxpayers, according to the county’s Popular Annual Financial Report, a reminder of how much revenue the existing data center cluster is already pumping into local coffers.
What Equinix already has on site
The Ashburn campus is already packed with multiple IBX buildings and is marketed as a high-density, highly interconnected site that can handle AI and cloud workloads. Equinix’s listing for DC22 highlights the Beaumeade Circle address and calls out interconnection, advanced cooling and renewable energy coverage for the facility, according to Equinix.
Competition for land and power
Developers and operators are in a full-on scramble for both land and power in the Beaumeade area, where recent deals keep underscoring how tight Data Center Alley has become. Cologix’s purchase of roughly 38 acres on Beaumeade Circle this winter is one example of data center firms banking land for future builds, per GlobeNewswire.
Timing, approvals and the power question
Local planning updates show Equinix has active filings tied to Beaumeade-area parcels as the company works through site plans and utility-related work, according to the Broad Run Bulletin published by Supervisor Sylvia Glass. At the same time, industry reporting says Dominion Energy’s transmission upgrades remain a gating factor for delivering new megawatts in eastern Loudoun, with those upgrades expected to ease constraints around 2026, per Data Center Frontier…