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QTS Ashburn 1 (ASH1)

QTS Ashburn 1 (ASH1)

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)

22271 Broderick Dr / 22280 Randolph Dr, Sterling, VA (Loudoun County); 28-acre campus. DC1 operating (55MW), DC2 expansion (22.5MW) coming online Q2 2026.

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

Delivery health score

69.5 /100
69.5/100

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

Schedule

80 /100
80/100

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 QTS Ashburn 1 (ASH1) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Regulatory baseline 70 QTS Ashburn 1 (ASH1) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure baseline 70 QTS Ashburn 1 (ASH1) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 QTS Ashburn 1 (ASH1) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).

Milestones

  1. Energization

    Expected
    1 revision

    Energization · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
QTS Data Centers
Owner

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. QTS (q.com) · backs: capacity mw, expected date, status

    https://q.com/data-centers/ashburn

Signals

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

  1. QTS (q.com)