Officials in Loudoun County, Virginia, are set to nix a proposed mixed-use project that would blend two data centers with hundreds of units of affordable housing near Dulles International Airport.
Loudoun County Supervisors say any inclusion of data centers will almost certainly lead to the denial of Innovation Gateway, a development proposed by a joint venture between San Diego-based Fairfield Residential and Washington, D.C.’s The BlackChamber Group on 30 vacant acres east of Route 28.
The impending decision, first reported by the Washington Business Journal, is the latest move by Loudoun officials to reign in the spread of data center projects in a county that has more than anywhere else in the world.
First proposed in May 2022, plans for Innovation Gateway include a pair of data centers totaling 700K SF alongside a multifamily building with 300 housing units, all of them affordable. The site would also include 80K SF of office space. The exterior of the two data centers would be designed to look like office buildings.
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