Massive PWC Data Center Project Thwarted After Final Developer Drops Supreme Court Appeal

Massive PWC Data Center Project Thwarted After Final Developer Drops Supreme Court Appeal

County residents have been fighting the proposed data center campus since its approval in 2023.

Developer Drops Plans to Build World's Largest Data Center Campus Outside Nation's Capital

WASHINGTON, July 6, 2026 — The decision of data center developers QTS and Compass Datacenters to pull out of a massive 2,100 acre project in Prince William County may have marked an inflection point in Northern Virginia’s experience with data centers.The project, which began in July 2021, would have put 37 data centers on land adjacent to historic Manassas National Battlefield, located about 30 miles from Washington, D.C. Each data center would …