Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)
~2,100 acres along Pageland Lane near Gainesville / Manassas National Battlefield, Prince William County, VA; coordinates approximate to corridor
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
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.
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Dimension
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Factor
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Contribution
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Cites
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Narrative
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| 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). |
| Infrastructure | hard cap | 0 | Prince William Digital Gateway (QTS / Compass) | Hard cap "missing_interconnection" (health ≤ 55, §B.3): no power-category milestone on file 18+ months after announcement (2023-12-31). [triggered, not binding] |
| 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). |
| Schedule | hard cap | -43.75 | Prince William Digital Gateway (QTS / Compass) | Hard cap "status_cancelled" (health ≤ 10): project status is cancelled. [binding] |
Utility approval · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Entity
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Role
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Ownership
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Committed capital
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| QTS | — | — | |
| Compass Datacenters | — | — | |
| Blackstone | — | — |
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.
Bisnow · backs: actual date
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/data-center-community-relations/digital-gateway-plans-may-close-for-good-134038
Data Center Dynamics · Jul 3, 2026 · backs: announced date
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/qts-drops-data-center-appeal-kills-gigawatt-pw-digital-gateway-project-in-virginia/
Data Center Frontier · backs: capex usd
https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/33016383/rezoning-for-pw-digital-gateway-data-centers-approved-by-virginias-prince-william-county-supervisors
Bisnow · Jul 7, 2026 · backs: status
https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/data-center/prince-william-county-board-rejects-plan-for-1940-acre-data-center-hub-135319
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Bisnow · relevance 0.80
· Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.90
· Northern Virginia Magazine · relevance 0.70
Data Center Frontier · relevance 0.70
DCD · relevance 0.90
WTOP · relevance 0.70
Bisnow · relevance 0.00