# Iron Mountain Data Center VA-2

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Iron Mountain Data Center VA-2 is an operating colocation facility at 11660 Hayden Road in Manassas, Virginia, served by NOVEC within PJM. Iron Mountain publishes 221,500 square feet and 36 MW of facility power capacity, while the county building record uses a different 325,918-square-foot gross-floor-area basis and records a finaled 2019 permit. The facility has eight data halls, block-redundant N+1 electrical and cooling infrastructure, matched renewable power, and permitted emergency diesel generation; no facility-specific interconnection point or demand-response enrollment is publicly identified.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: facility
- Location: 11660 Hayden Road, Manassas, Prince William County, VA
- Operator: Iron Mountain Data Centers (exact asset) — https://www.ironmountain.com/data-centers

## Power and grid context

- Campus gross power: 36 MW · reported · exact asset · as of 2026-09-03 — Iron Mountain's current VA-2 facility page reports 36 MW total capacity and 36 MW of 100% matched renewable power. This is an exact-facility reported capacity, not a critical-IT-load or campus-total figure.
- Campus gross power: 24 MW · reported · exact asset · as of 2025-01-20 — Iron Mountain's January 20, 2025 location overview reports VA-2 at 24 MW total potential capacity. Retained separately from the later 36 MW figure; it is not treated as an interconnection request, contracted capacity, critical IT load, or campus aggregate.
- ISO/RTO: PJM Interconnection (PJM-RTO)
- Balancing authority: PJM Interconnection, LLC
- Electric utility: NOVEC (Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative)

## Development

- Site status: Operating. VA-2 is listed by Iron Mountain as one of the operational facilities on its 142-acre Manassas campus.
- Site area: 142 acres
- Gross floor area: 325,918 square feet
- Buildings: 1
- Construction: VA-2 is an operating, purpose-built two-story data-center facility. Prince William County's building record identifies one VA2 building as completed in 2019 under permit BLD2018-04430, with the permit finaled on 2019-10-23 and gross floor area of 325,918 square feet. Iron Mountain separately publishes 221,500 gross square feet (another page states 221,578 square feet) and 36 MW of capacity. A December 2019 report stated that construction had begun and targeted first-phase completion in Q1 2020; this target is distinct from the county's completion record and is not treated as an explicit commercial-operation date. The operator currently lists VA-2 as operational.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation
- Workloads: colocation
- Operating context: Operating, purpose-built data-center facility providing colocation space. Iron Mountain states that VA-2 offers approximately 221,500 square feet and 36 MW of total facility capacity.

## Sources

- [VA-2 Manassas Data Center | Washington DC Colocation | Iron Mountain United States](http://ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/na/virginia/va-2)
- [Virginia Data Centers | Iron Mountain United States](http://ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/virginia-data-center)
- [NAO-2008-02071 (Iron Mountain Data Center, Prince Williams ...](http://nao.usace.army.mil/Media/Public-Notices/Article/4004545/nao-2008-02071-iron-mountain-data-center-prince-williams-virginia)
- [Who We Are](http://novec.com/About_NOVEC)
- [http://peeringdb.com/fac/6344](http://peeringdb.com/fac/6344)
- [Virginia groups oppose proposed mega-data center - Planet Forward](http://planetforward.org/story/virginia-mega-data-center)
- [Iron Mountain Data Centers location overview | Iron Mountain](http://resources.ironmountain.com/solution-guides/d/data-centers-iron-mountain-data-centers-location-overview)
- [Northern Virginia Data Center (VA-2) | Iron Mountain](http://resources.ironmountain.com/solution-guides/d/data-centers-northern-virginia-va-2)
- [Iron Mountain selects Prince William County for its Northern Virginia Data Center Campus | Virginia Economic Development Partnership](http://vedp.org/press-release/2016-03/prince-william-county-iron-mountain-data-center-campus)
- [Edificios de centros de datos - ArcGIS Hub Dataset](https://data.es.virginia.gov/dataset/1a379a8b-3a29-42b2-8330-ac92c200e6b6/resource/13819b70-8fa0-40d3-860e-a0fc176861ce)
- [Iron Mountain acquires data center-zoned land in Manassas, Virginia - DCD](https://datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/iron-mountain-acquires-data-center-zoned-land-in-manassas-virginia)
- [Iron Mountain Manassas Point — Prince William County, VA · DataCentersExposed](https://datacentersexposed.com/facilities/pwc-iron-mountain-manassas-point)
- [VA-2 Manassas Data Center | Washington DC Colocation | Iron Mountain United States](https://digitalresourcecenter.ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/na/virginia/va-2) — Iron Mountain Data Centers
- [eservice.pwcgov.org](https://eservice.pwcgov.org/documents/bocs/briefs/2016/0308/res16-341.pdf)
- [Build Out Analysis](https://gisweb.pwcva.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Planning/Build_Out_Analysis/MapServer/9/query?where=PermitCase%3D%27BLD2018-04430%27%26outFields%3D*%26returnGeometry%3Dfalse%26f%3Dpjson)
- [Build Out Analysis](https://gisweb.pwcva.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Planning/Build_Out_Analysis/MapServer/9/query?where=PermitCase%3D%27BLD2018-04430%27&outFields=*&returnGeometry=false&f=pjson)
- [Iron Mountain Data Centers VA-2 Data Center, Manassas, VA, USA | UPSTACK Marketplace](https://marketplace.upstack.com/data-centers/iron-mountain-data-centers-va-2)
- [Iron Mountain Expands Data Center Campus](https://princewilliamliving.com/iron-mountain-expands-data-center-campus/)
- [Storage and Information Management Leader Iron Mountain Expands Data Center Campus in Northern Virginia  - Prince William County Economic Development](https://pwcded.org/news/storage-and-information-management-leader-iron-mountain-expands-data-center-campus-in-northern-virginia/) — Prince William County Economic Development · 2020-01-03
- [pwcgov.granicus.com](https://pwcgov.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=12&clip_id=3649)
- [Data Center Buildings](https://vgin.vdem.virginia.gov/datasets/PWCGOV::data-center-buildings)
- [Iron Mountain opens first phase of $350M Manassas data center – WTOP News](https://wtop.com/business-money/2017/09/iron-mountain-opens-first-phase-350m-manassas-data-center/) — WTOP News · 2017-09-18
- [Iron Mountain expands Manassas data farm – WTOP News](https://wtop.com/business-money/2019/12/iron-mountain-invests-another-225m-in-manassas-data-farm/) — WTOP News · 2019-12-10
- [Iron Mountain VA-2 — data center in Manassas, VA · Compute Atlas](https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/iron-mountain-va-2-va)
- [Iron Mountain Signs 72 Megawatt Lease at its Manassas Data Center | Data Center Frontier](https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/cloud/article/11427413/iron-mountain-signs-72-megawatt-lease-at-its-manassas-data-center) — Data Center Frontier · 2022-04-28
- [deq.virginia.gov](https://www.deq.virginia.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/25827/639123668253970000)
- [Real-time Operating Grid - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)](https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/balancing_authority/PJM)
- [Northern Virginia Data Centers | Manassas Data Centers | Iron Mountain United States](https://www.ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/na/virginia)
- [VA-2 Manassas Data Center | Washington DC Colocation | Iron Mountain United States](https://www.ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/na/virginia/va-2)
- [Iron Mountain Data Center - Manassas (VA-2) - PeeringDB](https://www.peeringdb.com/fac/6344)
- [PJM - Who We Are](https://www.pjm.com/about-pjm/who-we-are)
- [Iron Mountain selects Prince William County for its Northern Virginia Data Center Campus | Virginia Economic Development Partnership](https://www.vedp.org/press-release/2016-03/prince-william-county-iron-mountain-data-center-campus) — Virginia Economic Development Partnership · 2016-03-09

## Data quality

- The operator publishes 221,500 gross square feet for VA-2 and separately lists 221,578 square feet in its specifications; these figures are retained as source-specific rather than reconciled.
- The $225 million investment and employment figures are VA-2-related, while the $500,000 fee credits and the 25-plus-25 job projection originated in broader campus announcements and should not be treated as benefits generated solely by VA-2.
- The reviewed county public-hearing agenda concerns the later VA-8/VA-9 extension of the Iron Mountain campus. Separate advocacy material concerns the later Manassas Point project, identified as case REZ2024-00001; neither was attached to VA-2.
- The county data-center-building record identifies a completed 2019 building permit, BLD2018-04430.
- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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