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Aligned Data Centers IAD-06 (Quantum Frederick)

Aligned Data Centers IAD-06 (Quantum Frederick)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Maryland (BGE / Pepco / Delmarva Power / Potomac Edison — PJM)

5601 Manor Woods Road, Frederick, MD — 75-acre campus within Quantum Frederick Park (former Alcoa Eastalco site). 450,000 sq ft, two-story structural steel, hybrid liquid/air cooling. Topped out March 2026, under five months after groundbreaking.

Capacity
72 MW basis: it load
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

59 /100
59/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Aligned Data Centers IAD-06 (Quantum Frederick) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Aligned Data Centers IAD-06 (Quantum Frederick) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Aligned Data Centers IAD-06 (Quantum Frederick) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Aligned Data Centers IAD-06 (Quantum Frederick) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Groundbreaking Milestone "Groundbreaking" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-10-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Aligned Data Centers IAD-06 (Quantum Frederick) Newest schedule evidence is 2025-10-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Achieved

    Groundbreaking · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Turner Construction
General Contractor
— —
Aligned Data Centers
Developer
— —

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. E2
    Turner Construction - Turner Celebrates Topping Out of Aligned IAD-06 Data Center in Frederick, Maryland

    Turner Construction · Mar 9, 2026 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, status

    https://www.turnerconstruction.com/insights/turner-celebrates-topping-out-of-aligned-iad-06-data-center-in-frederick-maryland

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. E2
    Turner Construction - Turner Celebrates Topping Out of Aligned IAD-06 Data Center in Frederick, Maryland

    · Turner Construction · relevance 0.95

  2. E2
    Aligned Data Centers - Aligned Data Centers Signs Agreement with Quantum Loophole

    · Aligned Data Centers · relevance 0.30