US EditionDevelopers Drop Appeal of Zoning Decision on Digital Gateway Project
Compass Datacenters will not challenge a ruling that voided the project’s rezoning, leaving QTS as the only developer still weighing an appeal.
- On Wednesday, Compass Datacenters confirmed it will not contest a March 31 Virginia Court of Appeals ruling, abandoning its legal appeal of the Prince William Digital Gateway project.
- An August 2025 Circuit Court ruling, upheld by the Virginia Court of Appeals, voided the project's rezonings because Prince William County failed to provide adequate public notice before the December 2023 approval vote.
- Spanning 2,100 acres, the proposed Digital Gateway included 37 data centers, and developers secured land-sale agreements with nearly 100 local residents in 2022 to assemble the project.
- QTS remains the sole developer pursuing the project, facing a Thursday, April 30 deadline to petition the Virginia Supreme Court, while Prince William County spent over $1.7 million in taxpayer funds defending the rezoning.
- This reversal reflects broader resistance to data center expansion, as industry growth collides with community concerns over power demand and land use. Nearly half of U.S. data centers scheduled to break ground this year face cancellation or delay.
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