Equinix Manassas DC14 Data Center — Manassas, VA · Ask the Grid

Power and grid

Capacity	Basis	Status	Scope	As of
4 MW	Energized Power	Reported	Exact Asset	—
DatacenterHawk reports 4,000 kW currently commissioned at the exact DC14 facility. This is a reported commissioned facility-power figure and is not identified as gross campus power or critical IT load.

Utility: Dominion Energy
Balancing authority: PJM Interconnection, LLC
ISO / RTO: PJM Interconnection
Redundancy: N+1 power, UPS, generator, and cooling redundancy; generator autonomy of 30 hours or more at full load.
Backup generation: Five 2,000 kW diesel generators in parallel; Equinix specifies N+1 generator redundancy and 30 hours or more of autonomy at full load.
Power sources: Dominion Energy utility grid · Diesel standby generation

Facility and development

IT floor area (sq ft): 42,539
Gross floor area (sq ft): 109,800
Site area (acres): 7.309
Construction: The county’s completed-building record identifies Equinix Manassas DC14 at 7400 Infantry Ridge Road as a 2009 facility with a finaled BLD2006-05319 permit and 109,800 gross floor area. Equinix describes the operating facility as a two-story reinforced-concrete building with 42,539 square feet of colocation space. A separate architect project describes an 11,000-square-foot DC14 colocation expansion, but provides no construction or operating date.
Land transaction: Equinix completed a $3.6 billion acquisition of 29 data centers and their operations from Verizon on May 1, 2017; the transaction’s location table maps Verizon IAD4 in Manassas to Equinix DC14. This is an operating-asset transaction, not evidence of a separate land sale. Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT) is identified as the site landlord.
Facility class: Colocation
Workloads: cloud interconnection · AI/high-density workloads · network interconnection
Rack density (kW): 4
Availability tier: Tier 3 equivalent according to a third-party facility listing; Equinix publicly discloses N+1 redundancy but no formal Uptime Institute tier for this site.
Cooling systems: Water-cooled chillers · CRAH equipment · N+1 cooling redundancy
Cooling medium: Water, through water-cooled chillers; the technical specification also identifies CRAH equipment.
Water source: Public water supply system; the Prince William County zoning determination states that the site shall be served by a public sewerage and water supply system.
Fiber and connectivity: Equinix IBX colocation and interconnection site offering Equinix Fabric, Equinix Internet Exchange, Equinix Internet Access, Metro Connect and Cross Connects. Public facility listings identify SummitIG, Level 3/Lumen, Verizon Telecom and Zayo as connectivity providers.
Operating context: Operating Equinix DC14 in Manassas. The site is a two-story reinforced-concrete IBX facility with 42,539 sq ft of colocation space, intended for large deployments and publicly marketed for AI and high-density workloads. It has N+1 power, UPS, generator and cooling redundancy, with at least 30 hours of generator autonomy at full load.
Efficiency: PUE 1.6 · design · Exact Asset
Air permits: Virginia DEQ Registration No. 73200-2, issued October 19, 2006, authorized construction and operation of diesel engine-driven emergency generators at 7400 Infantry Ridge Road, Manassas; the permit was originally issued to Verizon Business. · Virginia DEQ lists Registration No. 73200-3 for Equinix, LLC – DC 14 in Prince William County, issued October 18, 2007.
Emissions: The DEQ permit for the site’s emergency generators specifies per-generator short-term limits of 41.2 lb/hr NOx, 4.0 lb/hr CO, 1.1 lb/hr VOC, 0.9 lb/hr PM-10, and 0.9 lb/hr SO2, plus a facility-wide NOx limit of 46.9 tons/year. These are permit limits, not measured operating emissions.
Environmental commitments: The DC14 technical-specification sheet states renewable-energy coverage of 100% from RECs sourced from U.S. wind VPPs and Green-e wind programs.
Environmental impacts: Emergency-generator operation is subject to permitted air-emission limits for nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, PM-10, and sulfur dioxide. No site-specific measured emissions were identified.
Project cost (USD): 100,000,000
Permits and dockets: Building permit BLD2006-05319 — finaled; the county building record identifies the facility as completed in 2009 with 109,800 square feet of building-permit gross floor area. · Zoning determination ZNR2026-00191, dated July 8, 2026 — confirms by-right data-center use, parcel-consolidation treatment, and a maximum 1.0 FAR under the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. · Rezoning REZ1985-0042 and proffer amendment REZ1988-0030 — underlying zoning and proffer cases governing the property. · Proffer amendments REZ1998-0027 and REZ1999-0038 — applicable proffer amendments for the 7400 and 7200 Infantry Ridge Road parcels. · Special use permit SUP1986-0048 — historical height-modification approval; the county determined it is void because there is no record of timely implementation.
Transactions: On May 1, 2017, Equinix completed its acquisition from Verizon of 29 data centers and their operations in a $3.6 billion all-cash portfolio transaction; public facility references identify DC14 as formerly Verizon IAD4 and as part of that acquired portfolio. The consideration allocated specifically to DC14 was not disclosed. · Public property records indicate a 2005 sale of the exact 7400 Infantry Ridge Road property, but no sale price or complete transaction-party details were identified. · Blackstone announced a 2026 transaction involving interests in three different Northern Virginia hyperscale data centers; the announcement does not identify DC14, so it is not attributed to this facility.
Public hearings: No completed or scheduled exact-site public hearing was identified. The county’s July 8, 2026 zoning determination says an aggrieved party could appeal within 30 days, after which the Board of Zoning Appeals would schedule and advertise a hearing within 90 days. · The public transparency record for the site states that no public-hearing records were linked to the facility at the time of review.
Community benefits: No site-specific public or community-benefits package, quantified local tax receipts, jobs commitment, or community agreement was identified for Equinix DC14. A public transparency record states that no per-deal tax break is linked to the site. · Equinix describes DC14 as supporting large deployments and providing interconnection services. That is a commercial/customer benefit, not a documented public-community benefit.
Petitions: No signed petition or community petition count was identified. DataCentersExposed provides an editable model public-comment letter and an opt-in campaign for Equinix Manassas; the campaign page showed 0 supporters, so it should not be treated as a filed or community-endorsed petition.
Opposition or litigation: DataCentersExposed maintains an approved campaign concerning Equinix Manassas. Its model comment raises concerns about electricity bills, water, noise, air quality, schools, tax incentives, and enforceable operating conditions; the campaign page showed 0 supporters. · No court case or litigation specifically naming Equinix DC14 or the 7400 Infantry Ridge Road property was identified. Litigation reported for other Prince William data-center projects, including the Digital Gateway, should not be attributed to DC14.

Identity and campus: Equinix Manassas DC14
Also reported as Washington DC DC14.
Grid record: Dominion Energy · PJM Interconnection
Regulatory record: Building permit BLD2006-05319 — finaled; the county building record identifies the facility as completed in 2009 with 109,800 square feet of building-permit gross floor area. · Zoning determination ZNR2026-00191, dated July 8, 2026 — confirms by-right data-center use, parcel-consolidation treatment, and a maximum 1.0 FAR under the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. · Rezoning REZ1985-0042 and proffer amendment REZ1988-0030 — underlying zoning and proffer cases governing the property. · Proffer amendments REZ1998-0027 and REZ1999-0038 — applicable proffer amendments for the 7400 and 7200 Infantry Ridge Road parcels. · Special use permit SUP1986-0048 — historical height-modification approval; the county determined it is void because there is no record of timely implementation.
Equinix DC14 is a completed, operating data-center building at 7400 Infantry Ridge Road, Manassas, on GPIN 7697-47-7005. Prince William County records identify the building as Equinix Manassas DC14, completed in 2009, with 109,800 square feet of gross floor area, building permit BLD2006-05319, and a finaled permit. The property is zoned PBD and is subject to REZ1985-0042, REZ1988-0030, REZ1998-0027, and REZ1999-0038. The 2026 zoning determination confirms data-center use is permitted by right on the parcel, including if consolidated with the adjacent parcel, and allows up to 1.0 FAR within the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. SUP1986-0048, which would have allowed increased height, was determined to be void. No exact-site environmental or air permit number was identified.

Equinix Completes Acquisition of 29 Data Centers from Verizon — Equinix’s transaction announcement identifies the former Verizon IAD4 in Manassas as DC14 and places it in the Washington, D.C. group of acquired facilities.

Washington DC DC14 — The operator’s current DC14 asset page identifies the facility at 7400 Infantry Ridge Road in Manassas and describes its customer-facing services.

Equinix Manassas DC14

Equinix Manassas DC14

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