Where the Internet Lives — and Power Disappears: Ashburn’s Data Center Alley
Ashburn, long a sleepy Northern Virginia suburb, now sits in the middle of data center alley, where strangely named streets (Red Rum drive, Uunet drive, Gigabit plaza) lined up by huge data centers only yield to even bigger data center construction projects.
The 117 data centers in the Loudoun county pipeline will need an extra 9.4 GW of power by 2029. The whole county only needed 3.4GW of power for all users in 2023.
Where will all the new power come from?
