Compass Datacenters, one of the developers that had planned a 2,100-acre data center cluster in Northern Virginia, is stepping away after an expensive rezoning and legal effort.
The developer, along with Blackstone-backed QTS, had until Thursday to decide whether to appeal the Virginia Court of Appeals’ March 31 ruling against the rezoning for the PW Digital Gateway project. Prince William County’s Board of Supervisors voted April 15 to drop the county’s legal defense of the project.
“Compass has reached the unfortunate conclusion that we cannot move forward with the Prince William Digital Gateway project,” Compass Datacenters President AJ Byers said in a statement.
“While we still believe this project offered significant benefits for the region and our neighbors, recent legal actions and compounding regulatory hurdles have effectively closed a viable path forward,” he added.
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