# Equinix Ashburn DC5

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Equinix Ashburn DC5 is a facility data center in Ashburn, VA. Equinix is identified as the operator, and the facility is operating. It is identified as part of Equinix Ashburn Campus. Spatial service-territory evidence associates the site with Dominion Virginia Power; 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: facility
- Location: 21701 Filigree Court, Ashburn, VA
- Operator: Equinix (exact asset) — https://www.equinix.com
- Owner: Equinix LLC (exact asset)
- Developer: Equinix LLC (exact asset)
- Utility: Dominion Energy Virginia (exact asset) — https://www.dominionenergy.com

## Power and grid context

- Energized power: 6 MW · operating · exact asset — Operational capacity
- ISO/RTO: PJM Interconnection
- Balancing authority: PJM Interconnection
- Electric utility: Dominion Virginia Power

## Development

- Site status: under construction
- Gross floor area: 57,544 square feet
- Buildings: 1
- Construction: DC5 is a carrier‑neutral data center under construction on the Ashburn Campus, consisting of a single 1‑story building with 57,544 sq ft of floor space, 40 MW of capacity, expected to be online in 2026.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation, telecom_edge, mixed
- Workloads: colocation, cloud_connectivity, ai_hpc, interconnection
- Operating context: Equinix Ashburn DC5 is a single‑story, carrier‑neutral colocation facility (57,544 ft²) offering cabinet and cage colocation, Equinix interconnection services (IX, Fabric, Cloud Exchange), enterprise-grade UPS and generator redundancy (UPS N+2; generator N+1 block redundant), and supports high‑density/next‑gen cooling for AI and other high‑density workloads.

## Sources

- [http://datacenter.fyi/public-record/d0a489dd](http://datacenter.fyi/public-record/d0a489dd)
- [Issued Air Permits for Data Centers | Virginia DEQ](http://deq.virginia.gov/news-info/shortcuts/permits/air/issued-air-permits-for-data-centers)
- [Data Center Requests | Virginia | Dominion Energy](http://dominionenergy.com/en/Virginia/Large-Business-Services/Data-Center-Requests)
- [http://equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/washington-dc-data-centers/dc5](http://equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/washington-dc-data-centers/dc5)
- [Virginia Preserves Data Center Tax Incentive, Adds New Electricity Consumption Tax | Insights | Holland & Knight](http://hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2026/08/virginia-preserves-data-center-tax-incentive)
- [Equinix Acquires 34 Acres of Land in Ashburn for Interconnection Data Center Expansion :: Equinix, Inc. (EQIX)](http://investor.equinix.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/305/equinix-acquires-34-acres-of-land-in-ashburn-for)
- [http://loudoun.gov/2674/Utilities](http://loudoun.gov/2674/Utilities)
- [http://openei.org/wiki/RAPID/BulkTransmission/Virginia](http://openei.org/wiki/RAPID/BulkTransmission/Virginia)
- [http://usdatamap.com/facility/equinix-dc2-va-eqx-2](http://usdatamap.com/facility/equinix-dc2-va-eqx-2)
- [http://usdatamap.com/facility/equinix-dc21-va-eqx-12](http://usdatamap.com/facility/equinix-dc21-va-eqx-12)
- [Data Center Retail Sales & Use Tax Exemption | Virginia Economic Development Partnership](http://vedp.org/incentive/data-center-retail-sales-use-tax-exemption)
- [Equinix Ashburn DC5 Data Center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/equinix-ashburn-dc5)
- [Equinix - Ashburn Data Center DC5 - Cloud and Colocation](https://cloudandcolocation.com/datacenters/equinix-ashburn-data-center-dc5/)
- [Equinix DC5 Data Center, Ashburn, VA, USA](https://marketplace.upstack.com/data-centers/equinix-data-center-ashburn-dc5)
- [Equinix DC5 Ashburn: 6 MW data center in Loudoun, VA](https://morethanjustparks.com/data-center-tracker/equinix-dc5-ashburn-va--00aad3d0-b930-4668-8c7d-c4b0f9408f85)
- [Equinix – Data Centre Provider](https://www.datacentres.com/providers/equinix)
- [Washington D.C. Data Centers](https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/washington-dc-data-centers)
- [DC5](https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/washington-dc-data-centers/dc5)

## Data quality

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

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Profile generated: 2026-09-04T14:28:32.838652Z
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