After a yearslong rezoning and legal fight, officials in Prince William County, Virginia, have dealt a potentially fatal blow to an effort to build more than 22M SF of data centers next to a historic Civil War battlefield.
Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia, near the Prince William Digital Gateway site
The Prince William County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution to drop the county’s legal defense of the 2023 PW Digital Gateway rezoning effort after the Virginia Court of Appeals blocked the project March 31.
The board could have appealed the ruling to the Virginia Supreme Court, but data center opponents last week urged the county to give up the efforts to rezone more than 2,100 acres for the digital infrastructure facilities.
Blackstone-owned QTS and Compass Datacenters planned to develop 34 buildings totaling 22M SF and 1.7 gigawatts of capacity, which would have made it one of the world’s largest data center clusters.
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