# VA 4

PJM data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/va-4

VA 4 is a building data center in Bristow, Prince William County, VA. Digital Realty is identified as the operator, and the facility is operating. Spatial service-territory evidence associates the site with Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC); 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: 8217 Linton Hall Road, Bristow, Prince William County, VA
- Operator: Digital Realty (exact asset) — https://www.digitalrealty.com

## Power and grid context

- Critical it load: 9.6 MW · reported · exact asset · as of 2026-08-19 — Critical IT load reported in Digital Core REIT / facility portfolio listings for 8217 Linton Hall Road.
- Energized power: 12 MW · reported · exact asset — Alternate facility power capacity reported by a public datacenter directory entry for the same address.
- ISO/RTO: PJM
- Balancing authority: PJM
- Electric utility: Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC)

## Development

- Site status: operational
- Gross floor area: 182,032 square feet
- Buildings: 1
- Construction: Single‑story data center originally built in 2001 (as a former Dupont Fabros facility / VA3) and later operated by Digital Realty; referenced as 8217 Linton Hall Road (VA4). Reports list gross/net rentable floorspace in the ~182,000–230,000 sqft range; site is currently operational/fully fitted and occupied under lease arrangements (lease expiration and re‑lease events noted 2025 and a new lease announced in 2026). No evidence in the provided corpus for multiple buildings on the site, for a staged multi‑phase build, or for site acreage or formal land‑sale transaction details. Permits and public records show building status completed and GFA entries in county GIS records (182,032 sqft taxed GFA in county dataset).

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation
- Workloads: cloud
- Operating context: VA4 is a colocation data center operated by Digital Realty, a 230,000 square foot purpose-built facility with N+2 redundant UPS and generators.

## Sources

- [http://baxtel.com/data-center/8217-linton-hall-va4-digital-realty](http://baxtel.com/data-center/8217-linton-hall-va4-digital-realty)
- [http://datacenter.fyi/facility/digital-realty-va4-va-1d954ce6](http://datacenter.fyi/facility/digital-realty-va4-va-1d954ce6)
- [http://datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/digital-core-reit-seeks-new-tenant-for-data-center-in-prince-william-county-northern-virginia](http://datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/digital-core-reit-seeks-new-tenant-for-data-center-in-prince-william-county-northern-virginia)
- [http://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/digital-realty/8217-linton-hall-road/va4](http://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/digital-realty/8217-linton-hall-road/va4)
- [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://dgtlinfra.com/digital-realty-core-data-center-reit-ipo](http://dgtlinfra.com/digital-realty-core-data-center-reit-ipo)
- [http://digitalcorereit.com/newsroom/company-news/digital-core-reit-announces-linton-hall-lease-0](http://digitalcorereit.com/newsroom/company-news/digital-core-reit-announces-linton-hall-lease-0)
- [http://digitalcorereit.com/portfolio/market-overview/northern-virginia-details/default.aspx](http://digitalcorereit.com/portfolio/market-overview/northern-virginia-details/default.aspx)
- [http://digitalrealty.com/data-centers/americas/northern-virginia/iad40](http://digitalrealty.com/data-centers/americas/northern-virginia/iad40)
- [http://fauquier.com/data-center-battle-shifts-to-bristow-residents-vow-to-fight-14-data-centers-slated-for/article_f75e44b5-d23d-556e-bb18-89588d298247.html](http://fauquier.com/data-center-battle-shifts-to-bristow-residents-vow-to-fight-14-data-centers-slated-for/article_f75e44b5-d23d-556e-bb18-89588d298247.html)
- [http://ferc.gov/industries-data/electric/electric-power-markets/pjm](http://ferc.gov/industries-data/electric/electric-power-markets/pjm)
- [http://gisweb.pwcva.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Planning/Build_Out_Analysis/MapServer/9/query?f=pjson&outFields=*&returnGeometry=false&where=BuildingID='VA4'](http://gisweb.pwcva.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Planning/Build_Out_Analysis/MapServer/9/query?f=pjson&outFields=*&returnGeometry=false&where=BuildingID='VA4')
- [http://inflect.com/building/44820-prentice-drive-sterling/digital-realty/datacenter/iad43](http://inflect.com/building/44820-prentice-drive-sterling/digital-realty/datacenter/iad43)
- [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://pjm.com/about-pjm](http://pjm.com/about-pjm)
- [County to spend $500,000 more to fight data center lawsuits  | News | princewilliamtimes.com](http://princewilliamtimes.com/news/county-will-spend-nearly-500-000-more-to-fight-data-center-lawsuits/article_d715d418-b061-11ef-853d-6fffcb7aa800.html)
- [http://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2026/RD40/PDF](http://rga.lis.virginia.gov/Published/2026/RD40/PDF)
- [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)
- [Parallel Generation and Interconnection | Virginia](http://www.dominionenergy.com/en/Virginia/Large-Business-Services/Using-Our-Facilities/Parallel-Generation-and-Interconnection)
- [8217 Linton Hall (VA4) Digital Realty Data Center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/8217-linton-hall-va4-digital-realty)
- [8217 Linton Hall Road | Washington D.C. Area](https://cloudscene.com/data-center/united-states-of-america/virginia-regional/dupont-fabros-technology-va4)
- [Digital Realty VA4 | 8217 Linton Hall Road, Northern Virginia - datacenterHawk](https://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/digital-realty/8217-linton-hall-road/va4)
- [Bristow, Virginia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristow,_Virginia)
- [Digital Realty VA4: See All services with pricing](https://inflect.com/building/8217-linton-hall-road-gainesville/digital-realty/datacenter/digital-realty-8217-linton-hall-road)
- [Our Water](https://princewilliamwater.org/our-water)
- [Digital Realty - Porpoise Ventures LLC (VA4): amended or ...](https://publicevidence.org/records/digital-realty-porpoise-ventures-llc-va4-air-permit-73180-4)
- [Digital Realty - Porpoise Ventures LLC (VA4) — Prince William ...](https://www.canonical.cc/labs/groundwork/site/digital-realty-porpoise-ventures-llc-va4-prince-william/)
- [Bristow Data Centers - 18 Facilities from Operators](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/virginia/bristow/)
- [8217 Linton Hall Rd in Bristow | Digital Realty (9.6 MW)](https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/virginia/bristow/digital-realty-va4/)
- [Issued Air Permits for Data Centers | Virginia DEQ](https://www.deq.virginia.gov/news-info/shortcuts/permits/air/issued-air-permits-for-data-centers)
- [Data Center Connectivity](https://www.digitalrealty.com/platform-digital/connectivity)
- [Way: ‪VA 4‬ (‪46831933‬) | OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/46831933)
- [How Data Centers Are Reshaping PJM's Energy Market](https://www.powwr.com/blog/how-data-centers-are-reshaping-pjms-energy-market)
- [County to spend $500,000 more to fight data center lawsuits](https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/county-will-spend-nearly-500-000-more-to-fight-data-center-lawsuits/article_d715d418-b061-11ef-853d-6fffcb7aa800.html) — Prince William Times · 2025-09-10
- [In a rare move, supervisors say no to Bristow data centers | News | princewilliamtimes.com](https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/in-a-rare-move-supervisors-say-no-to-more-data-centers-in-bristow/article_8406b40b-fd4b-4822-8e46-a5072b7d7e11.html) — Prince William Times · 2025-09-10
- [Digital Realty Reaches Agreement with Nalco Water to Enhance Water Stewardship](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/digital-realty-reaches-agreement-with-nalco-water-to-enhance-water-stewardship-300976724.html)

## 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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