# VA3

PJM data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/va3

VA3 is a facility data center in Reston, Fairfax, VA. Digital Realty is identified as the operator, and the facility is operating. Spatial service-territory evidence associates the site with Dominion Energy Virginia; 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: 1780 Business Center Drive, Reston, Fairfax County, VA
- Owner: Digital Realty (exact asset) — https://www.digitalrealty.com
- Operator: Digital Realty (exact asset) — https://www.digitalrealty.com
- Developer: Digital Realty (exact asset) — https://www.digitalrealty.com

## Power and grid context

- Critical it load: 13 MW · operating · exact asset · as of 2026-09-04 — Critical load capacity
- ISO/RTO: PJM
- Balancing authority: PJM Interconnection
- Electric utility: Dominion Energy Virginia

## Development

- Site status: operational
- Site area: 9 acres
- Gross floor area: 256,000 square feet
- Buildings: 1
- Construction: Purpose-built, three-story Digital Realty facility (VA3) at 1780 Business Center Drive, Reston — ~256,000 sq ft gross floor area on a ~9-acre site; reported critical IT capacity ~13.0 MW; built in 2001 and currently operational.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation
- Operating context: Highly resilient colocation facility offering versatile and scalable environments with multi‑megawatt suites, single cabinet deployments, N+1 UPS and cooling redundancy.

## 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-va3-va-a02c65b3](http://datacenter.fyi/facility/digital-realty-va3-va-a02c65b3)
- [http://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/digital-realty/1780-business-center-drive/va3](http://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/digital-realty/1780-business-center-drive/va3)
- [Issued Air Permits for Data Centers | Virginia DEQ](http://deq.virginia.gov/news-info/shortcuts/permits/air/issued-air-permits-for-data-centers)
- [http://ocolo.io/colocation/digital-realty/northern-virginia-va3](http://ocolo.io/colocation/digital-realty/northern-virginia-va3)
- [http://openei.org/wiki/RAPID/BulkTransmission/Virginia](http://openei.org/wiki/RAPID/BulkTransmission/Virginia)
- [1780 Business Center Drive (VA3) Digital Realty Data Center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/1780-business-center-drive-va3-digital-realty)
- [1780 Business Center Drive (VA3) Digital Realty Data ...](https://baxtel.com/news/data-centers/1780-business-center-drive-va3-digital-realty?page=7)
- [VA3 — Ashburn (Reston) data center - Coloprice](https://coloprice.com/data-centers/usa/ashburn/digital-realty-va3-reston/)
- [Digital Realty VA3 | 1780 Business Center Drive, Northern Virginia - datacenterHawk](https://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/digital-realty/1780-business-center-drive/va3)
- [Fairfax County, VA Data Centers: 49 Sites, 773.8 MW](https://dcmap.us/counties/fairfax-county-va/)
- [Digital Realty - Lemur Properties, LLC (VA3) — Fairfax County, VA | Groundwork](https://www.canonical.cc/labs/groundwork/site/digital-realty-lemur-properties-llc-va3-fairfax/)
- [Digital Realty VA3 — Reston, VA | datacenter.fyi](https://www.datacenter.fyi/facility/digital-realty-va3-va-a02c65b3)
- [Digital Realty - Lemur Properties, LLC (VA3) - Reston, VA | datacenter.fyi](https://www.datacenter.fyi/public-record/digital-realty-lemur-properties-llc-va3-d9e459fa)
- [DCF Tours: CoreSite Reston Colocation Data Center VA3, Reston, Virginia | Data Center Frontier](https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/33037247/dcf-tours-coresite-reston-colocation-data-center-va3-reston-virginia)
- [Digital Realty Data Center in Reston VA](https://www.datacenters.com/digital-realty-northern-virginia-va3)
- [Issued Air Permits for Data Centers | Virginia DEQ](https://www.deq.virginia.gov/news-info/shortcuts/permits/air/issued-air-permits-for-data-centers)
- [Northern Virginia Data Centers & Colocation](https://www.digitalrealty.com/data-centers/americas/northern-virginia)
- [VA3 Data Center | 1780 Business Center Drive | Digital Realty](https://www.digitalrealty.com/data-centers/americas/northern-virginia/va3)
- [Petition Reston Zoning Moratorium Petition](https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/reston-zoning-moratorium/)
- [Digital Realty: Northern Virginia VA3  | OCOLO](https://www.ocolo.io/colocation/digital-realty/northern-virginia-va3/)
- [Virginia's Data Center Boom Faces Growing Community Backlash](https://www.pcrehomes.com/blog/virginia-data-center-boom-community-opposition-real-estate-2026/)
- [VA UTILITIES - The K Group Real Estate](https://www.thekproperties.com/va-utilities/)
- [Data Center Retail Sales & Use Tax Exemption](https://www.vedp.org/incentive/data-center-retail-sales-use-tax-exemption)

## Data quality

- No direct community benefit statements found beyond water sustainability
- 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
Source: Ask the Grid — https://askthegrid.com/