Plaza 500
Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
Status inferred from cleanview directory (Sep 8, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Proposed (inferred)
- Owner
- Owner not resolved
- Capacity
- 176 MW directory claim
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Fairfax County
- State
- Virginia
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- PJM
Location and nearby
Plaza 500 is on record as proposed in Fairfax County, Virginia. A directory lists its capacity at 176 MW; no filing we hold states a figure. 347 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 5 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 0.7 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 4.6 mi Under construction 18.3 mi Permitted 5.6 mi Proposed 0.7 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 0.7 mi approximate
Proposed · Fairfax County, VA
- 4.6 mi approximate
Unnamed data center (way/260996040)
Operating · Fairfax County, VA
- 4.7 mi approximate
NRO Aerospace Data Facility-East (Area 58)
Operating · Fairfax County, VA
- 4.7 mi approximate
Operating · Fairfax County, VA
- 4.9 mi approximate
Amazon Data Services Inc - DCA-64
Operating · Fairfax County, VA
- 5.6 mi approximate
Operating · Fairfax County, VA
What is on record
Owner
Owner not resolved
- Capacity
- 176 MW as reported by cleanview, not from a filing
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
How the status changed
- Proposed Jun 18, 2026 inferred
DCE status 'proposed'
- Proposed Sep 8, 2026 inferred
Cleanview status 'Planned'
Cleanview state pages: facility markers (id, name, coordinates, status, MW, county)
About this data
Evidence
Directory listing only
One or more public directories list it. We have not matched it to a filing.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway. The point comes from a directory, which does not say how it was derived.
Independent sources
1
directory. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
2 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleanview state pages: facility markers (id, name, coordinates, status, MW, county) US | Primary | id=2182 | Sep 8, 2026 retrieved by us |
| dce tracker export (© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.) US | Primary | slug=plaza-500 | Jun 18, 2026 last changed on the server |
Cleanview (cleanview.co) © DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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