Country
United States
AI data center dossier
Amazon Web Services — Northern Virginia Hyperscale Campus
Ashburn, Northern Virginia, United States/datacenters/amazon-ec2-virginia-hyperscale-campus.html
Operator
Amazon Web Services
Energy
Renewable
Known capacity
1.5 GW
Evidence profile
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Readiness
100%
Sources attachedVerified
2 citations linked
CoordinatesPublished
39.0438, -77.4874
Timeline evidencePartial
1 dated field available
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Record Notes
Amazon Web Services' Northern Virginia cluster, centered in Ashburn, is the world's largest data center market concentration. AWS operates dozens of facilities in the region across multiple availability zones (us-east-1), collectively totaling an estimated 1.5+ GW of IT load. This cluster is the primary home of AWS's AI and machine learning services: SageMaker, Bedrock (which hosts Anthropic's Claude, Meta's Llama, and other foundational models), Rekognition, and AWS Trainium/Inferentia chip deployments. The US-East-1 region is AWS's oldest and most infrastructure-dense, and hosts default deployments for many enterprise AI workloads. Loudoun County, the core of this cluster, has nicknamed itself the "Data Center Capital of the World." Water usage for cooling has prompted county-level data center moratoriums.
Analyst Flags
No obvious coverage gaps detected in the current structured record.
Timeline Signals
Earliest market signal2006
Nearby Facilities
Other tracked AI data centers within 300 km of this location.
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Intelligence Reports
Structured analysis covering this facility's operator and market context.
Frequently asked questions
- How big is Amazon Web Services — Northern Virginia Hyperscale Campus?
- Amazon Web Services — Northern Virginia Hyperscale Campus has 1.5 GW of known IT capacity, located in Ashburn, Northern Virginia, United States. It ranks #16 globally by capacity among 335 tracked facilities.
- What is the status of Amazon Web Services — Northern Virginia Hyperscale Campus?
- Amazon Web Services — Northern Virginia Hyperscale Campus is currently operational. Known timeline milestones: Earliest market signal 2006.
- Who operates Amazon Web Services — Northern Virginia Hyperscale Campus?
- Amazon Web Services — Northern Virginia Hyperscale Campus is operated by Amazon Web Services. Structured intelligence reports are available for Amazon Web Services Operator Report and United States Country Report.
- What energy source does Amazon Web Services — Northern Virginia Hyperscale Campus use?
- Amazon Web Services — Northern Virginia Hyperscale Campus is powered by renewable energy and is focused on mixed workloads. This is backed by 2 cited sources.