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Prince William Digital Gateway (QTS / Compass)

Prince William Digital Gateway (QTS / Compass)

Permitted
Probable

Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)

~2,100 acres along Pageland Lane near Gainesville / Manassas National Battlefield, Prince William County, VA; coordinates approximate to corridor

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
$24.7B
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

56.2 /100
56.2/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

51 /100
51/100

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 Prince William Digital Gateway (QTS / Compass) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Prince William Digital Gateway (QTS / Compass) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Prince William Digital Gateway (QTS / Compass) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory permit granted +6 Utility Approval Permitting milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on 2023-12-01.
Regulatory staleness decay -25 Prince William Digital Gateway (QTS / Compass) Newest regulatory evidence is 2023-12-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 Prince William Digital Gateway (QTS / Compass) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Utility Approval Milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2023-12-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Prince William Digital Gateway (QTS / Compass) Newest schedule evidence is 2023-12-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Utility Approval

    Achieved

    Utility approval · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
QTS
Developer
Compass Datacenters
Developer
Blackstone
Investor

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. Bisnow · backs: actual date

    https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/data-center-community-relations/digital-gateway-plans-may-close-for-good-134038

  2. Data Center Frontier · backs: capex usd, status

    https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/33016383/rezoning-for-pw-digital-gateway-data-centers-approved-by-virginias-prince-william-county-supervisors

Signals

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

  1. · Northern Virginia Magazine · relevance 0.70

  2. Data Center Frontier · relevance 0.70

  3. DCD · relevance 0.90

  4. WTOP · relevance 0.70

  5. Bisnow · relevance 0.00