# Iron Mountain VA-6

PJM data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/iron-mountain-va-6

Iron Mountain VA-6 is a facility data center in Manassas, Prince William County, VA. Iron Mountain is identified as the operator, and the facility is operating. It is identified as part of Iron Mountain Manassas campus. 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: facility
- Location: 11891 Sudley Manor Drive, Manassas, Prince William County, VA
- Owner: Iron Mountain (exact asset) — https://www.ironmountain.com
- Operator: Iron Mountain (exact asset) — https://www.ironmountain.com
- Utility: Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (exact asset) — https://www.novec.com

## Power and grid context

- ISO/RTO: PJM Interconnection
- Balancing authority: PJM Interconnection
- Electric utility: Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative

## Development

- Site status: operating
- Site area: 142 acres
- Gross floor area: 230,000 square feet
- Construction: VA-6 was announced as part of the Manassas campus expansion in March 2016, slated for delivery in Q3 2025, and is now operational, offering 230,000 sq ft of space and 32 MW of renewable power.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: hyperscale, colocation, cloud, enterprise, ai_hpc, telecom_edge
- Workloads: hyperscale cloud, enterprise IT, federal workloads, AI / HPC
- Critical IT load: 32 MW
- Operating context: Purpose-built hyperscale-ready colocation facility (Iron Mountain VA-6) on the Manassas campus: 230,000 gross sq ft, four large data halls, 32 MW total power, dedicated substation, high-efficiency air-cooled chiller plant, block N+1 redundancy, flexible deployment options (dedicated cages, full halls, hyperscale build-outs).

## Sources

- [http://deq.virginia.gov/news-info/shortcuts/permits/air/issued-air-permits-for-data-centers](http://deq.virginia.gov/news-info/shortcuts/permits/air/issued-air-permits-for-data-centers)
- [http://investors.ironmountain.com/news/news-details/2024/Iron-Mountain-Expands-Planned-Data-Center-Capacity-in-Virginia-by-more-than-350-Megawatts](http://investors.ironmountain.com/news/news-details/2024/Iron-Mountain-Expands-Planned-Data-Center-Capacity-in-Virginia-by-more-than-350-Megawatts)
- [http://ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/na/virginia/va-6](http://ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/na/virginia/va-6)
- [http://ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/virginia-data-center](http://ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/virginia-data-center)
- [http://novec.com/About_NOVEC](http://novec.com/About_NOVEC)
- [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=-77.5949050,38.7780614&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://vazata.com/data-centers/manassas-data-center-nova](http://vazata.com/data-centers/manassas-data-center-nova)
- [http://wtop.com/business-finance/2017/09/iron-mountain-opens-first-phase-350m-manassas-data-center](http://wtop.com/business-finance/2017/09/iron-mountain-opens-first-phase-350m-manassas-data-center)
- [Iron Mountain: VA-5 Data Center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/iron-mountain-va-5)
- [Iron Mountain Expands Planned Data Center Capacity in ...](https://investors.ironmountain.com/news/news-details/2024/Iron-Mountain-Expands-Planned-Data-Center-Capacity-in-Virginia-by-more-than-350-Megawatts/)
- [Iron Mountain Data Center - Manassas (VA-1) - PeeringDB](https://peeringdb.com/fac/5373)
- [Northern Virginia data center (VA-6)](https://resources.ironmountain.com/solution-guides/d/data-centers-northern-virginia-va-6)
- [Iron Mountain Data Centers in Virginia (4) | USDataMap](https://usdatamap.com/company/iron-mountain/state/VA)
- [Iron Mountain VA6 | Corgan](https://www.corgan.com/projects/iron-mountain-va6)
- [Iron Mountain acquires data center-zoned land in ...](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/iron-mountain-acquires-data-center-zoned-land-in-manassas-virginia/)
- [Iron Mountain Data Centers VA-6 in Manassas (32 MW)](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/virginia/manassas/iron-mountain-va-6/)
- [Iron Mountain Data Centers: VA-6 - Northern Virginia Data Center](https://www.datacenters.com/iron-mountain-va-6-northern-virginia)
- [Iron Mountain expands planned data center capacity in ...](https://www.ironmountain.com/data-centers/about/news-and-events/news/2024/november/data-centers-iron-mountain-expands-planned-data-center-capacity)
- [Iron Mountain files to expand Manassas data center campus](https://www.ironmountain.com/data-centers/about/news-and-events/news/2025/january/data-centers-iron-mountain-files-to-expand-manassas-data-center-campus)
- [Northern Virginia Data Centers | Manassas Data Centers | Iron Mountain United States](https://www.ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/na/virginia)
- [VA-6 Virginia Data Center | Virginia Colocation | Iron Mountain United States](https://www.ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/na/virginia/va-6)
- [NAO-2008-02071 (Iron Mountain Data Center, Prince Williams ...](https://www.nao.usace.army.mil/Media/Public-Notices/Article/4004545/nao-2008-02071-iron-mountain-data-center-prince-williams-virginia/)
- [Way: ‪Iron Mountain VA-6‬ (‪1304357577‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1304357577)
- [Supervisors OK data centers by Manassas apartments, airport | News | princewilliamtimes.com](https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/supervisors-approve-data-centers-near-manassas-apartments-airport/article_ed4998fe-ac12-43ad-baf3-ec78c37d9895.html) — Prince William Times · 2025-08-07
- [Iron Mountain selects Prince William County for its ...](https://www.vedp.org/press-release/2016-03/prince-william-county-iron-mountain-data-center-campus)

## Data quality

- Corporate promotional language may emphasize benefits without independent verification
- Removed uncited provider news result: Controversial Data Center Plan Passes In Prince William County After 27-Hour Hearing
- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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