# Amazon IAD163

PJM data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/amazon-iad163

Amazon IAD163 is a building data center in Dulles, Loudoun, VA. Amazon Web Services is identified as the operator, and the facility is operating. Spatial service-territory evidence associates the site with Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative; the profile assigns the asset to PJM through that documented market role. Reported development, power, and commercial facts retain their source-specific facility, campus, building, or phase scope; the page does not collapse those values into a single implied load.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: building
- Location: 21195 Atlantic Boulevard, Dulles, Loudoun County, VA
- Operator: Amazon Web Services (exact asset)
- Owner: Amazon Data Services, Inc. (exact asset)
- Developer: Amazon Data Services, Inc. (exact asset)
- Utility: Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (exact asset)

## Power and grid context

- Energized power: 223.5 MW · operating · building — Power Capacity (as listed on public datacenter registry)
- ISO/RTO: PJM
- Balancing authority: PJM Interconnection
- Electric utility: Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative

## Development

- Site status: operating
- Construction: Amazon IAD-163/164/174 is an operational hyperscale data center in Sterling, VA, developed by Amazon Data Services, Inc. The facility became operational on June 21, 2024, with a power capacity of 223.5 MW.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: hyperscale, cloud
- Operating context: Operates as a hyperscale cloud data center for Amazon Web Services.

## Sources

- [http://aboutamazon.com/news/aws/reducing-water-usage-in-aws-data-centers](http://aboutamazon.com/news/aws/reducing-water-usage-in-aws-data-centers)
- [http://datacenter.fyi/public-record/amazon-data-services-inc-iad-163-164-174-b5656cce](http://datacenter.fyi/public-record/amazon-data-services-inc-iad-163-164-174-b5656cce)
- [http://mapcarta.com/W930849744](http://mapcarta.com/W930849744)
- [http://openei.org/wiki/RAPID/BulkTransmission/Virginia](http://openei.org/wiki/RAPID/BulkTransmission/Virginia)
- [http://services3.arcgis.com/Ww6Zhg5FR2pLMf1C/ArcGIS/rest/services/VA_Electric_2016/FeatureServer/0/query?f=json&geometry=-77.5578909,38.7774374&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&inSR=4326&outFields=Provider,Utility&returnGeometry=false&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&where=1=1](http://services3.arcgis.com/Ww6Zhg5FR2pLMf1C/ArcGIS/rest/services/VA_Electric_2016/FeatureServer/0/query?f=json&geometry=-77.5578909,38.7774374&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&inSR=4326&outFields=Provider,Utility&returnGeometry=false&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&where=1=1)
- [http://services3.arcgis.com/Ww6Zhg5FR2pLMf1C/ArcGIS/rest/services/VA_Electric_2016/FeatureServer/0/query?f=json&geometry=-77.5949050,38.7780614&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&inSR=4326&outFields=Provider,Utility&returnGeometry=false&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&where=1=1](http://services3.arcgis.com/Ww6Zhg5FR2pLMf1C/ArcGIS/rest/services/VA_Electric_2016/FeatureServer/0/query?f=json&geometry=-77.5949050,38.7780614&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&inSR=4326&outFields=Provider,Utility&returnGeometry=false&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&where=1=1)
- [http://services3.arcgis.com/Ww6Zhg5FR2pLMf1C/ArcGIS/rest/services/VA_Electric_2016/FeatureServer/0/query?f=json&geometry=-77.6525395,38.8159745&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&inSR=4326&outFields=Provider,Utility&returnGeometry=false&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&where=1=1](http://services3.arcgis.com/Ww6Zhg5FR2pLMf1C/ArcGIS/rest/services/VA_Electric_2016/FeatureServer/0/query?f=json&geometry=-77.6525395,38.8159745&geometryType=esriGeometryPoint&inSR=4326&outFields=Provider,Utility&returnGeometry=false&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&where=1=1)
- [AWS Amazon IAD163 — Dulles Data Center](https://dchub.cloud/facilities/aws-amazon-iad163-24aa59f1)
- [Amazon IAD163 Map - Building - Loudoun County, Virginia, USA](https://mapcarta.com/W930849744)
- [AWS Cloud - Amazon Sustainability](https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/products-services/aws-cloud)
- [Amazon Data Services Inc - IAD-163/164/174 — Loudoun County, VA | Groundwork](https://www.canonical.cc/labs/groundwork/site/amazon-data-services-inc-iad-163-164-174-loudoun/)
- [Amazon Data Services Inc - IAD-163/164/174 - Sterling, VA | datacenter.fyi](https://www.datacenter.fyi/public-record/amazon-data-services-inc-iad-163-164-174-b5656cce)
- [Amazon AWS IAD - Atlantic Blvd Campus in Sterling](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/virginia/sterling/aws-iad-atlantic-blvd-campus/)
- [Time's Up: The Costs of Data Center Tax Break in Virginia ...](https://www.pecva.org/work/communities/times-up-the-costs-of-data-center-tax-break-in-virginia-far-outweigh-the-benefits/)
- [Amazon data centers could cost PA millions in tax revenue](https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/06/amazon-data-centers-pennsylvania-tax-break-energy-grid/)

## Data quality

- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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