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DataBank Culpeper Campus (IAD5/IAD6)

DataBank Culpeper Campus (IAD5/IAD6)

Planned
Probable

Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)

85 acres at Germanna & James Madison Highways, Culpeper County (Culpeper Technology Zone, ~60mi from Ashburn) — up to three 2-story DCs, 1.4M sq ft, 192MW campus; 300MW Dominion substation on-site; first building (IAD5, 40MW) targeted Q1 2027.

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

Delivery health score

50.5 /100
50.5/100

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 DataBank Culpeper Campus (IAD5/IAD6) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 DataBank Culpeper Campus (IAD5/IAD6) Newest capital evidence is 2023-11-14 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 DataBank Culpeper Campus (IAD5/IAD6) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 DataBank Culpeper Campus (IAD5/IAD6) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2023-11-14 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 DataBank Culpeper Campus (IAD5/IAD6) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 DataBank Culpeper Campus (IAD5/IAD6) Newest regulatory evidence is 2023-11-14 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 DataBank Culpeper Campus (IAD5/IAD6) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule staleness decay -25 DataBank Culpeper Campus (IAD5/IAD6) Newest schedule evidence is 2023-11-14 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

No milestones recorded for this project yet.

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Dominion Virginia Power (Dominion Energy)
Utility Provider
DataBank
Developer
AECOM Tishman
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. Data Center Dynamics · Nov 14, 2023 · backs: capacity mw, status

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/databank-acquires-85-acres-in-virginias-culpeper-for-192mw-data-center-campus/

Signals

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

  1. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.95

  2. Construction Dive · relevance 0.90