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Aligned IAD-02 (Ashburn)

Aligned IAD-02 (Ashburn)

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)

21821 Uunet Drive, Ashburn, Loudoun County — 2-story, 513,000 sq ft, expandable to 120MW; second building on Aligned's 26-acre Ashburn campus (IAD-01, 60MW, operating). Topped out Dec 3 2024 with GC HITT.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

51.8 /100
51.8/100

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

Schedule

55 /100
55/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

50 /100
50/100

Capital

50 /100
50/100

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 IAD-02 (Ashburn) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Aligned IAD-02 (Ashburn) Newest capital evidence is 2024-12-05 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Aligned IAD-02 (Ashburn) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 Aligned IAD-02 (Ashburn) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2024-12-05 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Aligned IAD-02 (Ashburn) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Aligned IAD-02 (Ashburn) Newest regulatory evidence is 2024-12-05 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 Aligned IAD-02 (Ashburn) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Aligned IAD-02 (Ashburn) Newest schedule evidence is 2024-12-05 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Groundbreaking

    Expected

    Groundbreaking

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Aligned Data Centers
Developer
HITT Contracting
General Contractor

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. Aligned Data Centers · Dec 5, 2024 · backs: status

    https://aligneddc.com/blog/aligned-tops-out-its-second-ashburn-va-hyperscale-data-center/

Signals

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

  1. · Aligned Data Centers · relevance 0.95