Land parcel is 268,700 sq ft
The Loudoun County Planning Commission has voted 4-2 in favor of recommending approval for a Prologis data center in Virginia.
The land parcel is located at the terminus of Executive Drive, west of Relocation Drive, and northeast of Old Ox Road in Sterling.
If approved by the Board of Supervisors, a 268,700 sq ft (24,963 sqm) land parcel will be rezoned from ‘General Industrial’ to ‘Industrial Park.’ The parcel is currently home to flex-warehouses.
This is accompanied by a separate proposal to increase the permitted floor area ratio of the land parcel from 0.6 to 0.8, which would enable a larger data center to be built. If approved, the facility would offer around 600,000 sq ft (55,741 sqm) of floor space, as opposed to 449,800 sq ft (41,787 sqm).
A five-acre substation will also be developed.
Alternatively, the land parcel could be used for wholesale distribution, warehousing, and storage use, ‘flex-building’ uses, or “any IP use permitted by the Zoning Ordinance in effect 12 years after the date of Board of Supervisors action.”
Prologis, a real estate investment trust, currently owns the land parcel and intends to develop the data center if the land rezoning is approved. The logistics and industrial real estate giant said in February of this year that it had 10GW worth of data centers planned for development in the next ten years.
Prologis has previously applied to convert existing warehouses into data centers in Sterling, Virginia, in June and January 2024, and in October 2023.
