Aligned IAD-01

Operating · Aligned Data Centers · 21890 Uunet Drive, Ashburn, VA

Aligned IAD-01 is the first operating building on Aligned's 26-acre Ashburn campus at 21890 Uunet Drive. Aligned's completion announcement describes the building as 368,755 square feet with 60 MW of energized capacity. That capacity remains specific to IAD-01; it is not total campus load or a claim of available grid service. The profile identifies the building's mapped PJM utility territory and keeps campus-level transmission context separate.

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Overview

Status: Operating
Operational building
Exact-site power: 60 MW
Energized Power · Energized
Facility size: 370,000 sq ft
1 reported building · Building
Opened: Mar 16, 2019
IAD-01

Aligned IAD-01

Operating · Aligned Data Centers · 21890 Uunet Drive, Ashburn, VA

Aligned IAD-01 is the first operating building on Aligned's 26-acre Ashburn campus at 21890 Uunet Drive. Aligned's completion announcement describes the building as 368,755 square feet with 60 MW of energized capacity. That capacity remains specific to IAD-01; it is not total campus load or a claim of available grid service. The profile identifies the building's mapped PJM utility territory and keeps campus-level transmission context separate.

Website Open in grid

Overview

Status: Operating
Operational building
Exact-site power: 60 MW
Energized Power · Energized
Facility size: 370,000 sq ft
1 reported building · Building
Opened: Mar 16, 2019
IAD-01

Compute profile

Hyperscale · Colocation

colocation (private suites) · hyperscale cloud and AI/HPC-ready workloads (high-density GPU support)

Cooling design

Air (air-cooled adiabatic CACTUS®) combined with closed-loop chilled water (water recycled on-site)

CACTUS® — air-cooled adiabatic-assisted cooling system · Closed-loop chilled water system (near-zero WUE design) · Delta³™ water-recycling technology · DeltaFlow™ water-recycling / flow-management technology

Profile

Project scope: IAD-01, the first building on Aligned's 26‑acre Ashburn campus, was completed in 2019, provides 60 MW of power, and has approximately 370,000 sq ft of floor space.
Power and grid: 60 MW of energized power is reported for the exact facility.
Compute role: Hyperscale-class, carrier-neutral data center building (IAD-01) on a 26-acre master-planned Aligned Ashburn campus. Building IAD-01 is a ~368,755–370,000 sq ft facility offering private dedicated data center suites and built with hyperscale / enterprise colocation capability; designed to Tier III standards with 24x7x365 access and capacity initially 60 MW (expandable on campus to larger totals).
Cooling and environment: CACTUS® — air-cooled adiabatic-assisted cooling system. Closed-loop chilled water system (near-zero WUE design). Operator claims 'drastically reduced water use' and 'saving tens of millions of gallons annually per site'.

Organizations

Material, source-backed organizations directly involved with this facility or its parent campus. Duplicate legal names and incidental community mentions are excluded.

OrganizationRoleScope

Aligned Data CentersOwner · Operator · DeveloperExact Asset

Dominion EnergyUtilityExact Asset

Timeline and sources

Project milestones and public references behind the asset profile.

Project timeline

2019
2019
IAD-01 construction completion scheduled
First building on Aligned's 26‑acre Ashburn campus
Mar 16, 2019
Mar 16, 2019
IAD-01 entered operation
First building on Aligned's 26‑acre Ashburn campus