Northern Virginia

September 7, 2026

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Temple Clears First Readings on Rowan's $4.2B Campus

August 10, 2026

Dominion Energy in Northern Virginia now quotes seven-year interconnection timelines.

August 1, 2026

Montgomery County, Maryland voted unanimously July 28 to pause new datacenter permits for 18 months, and in Northern Virginia, QTS withdrew its final appeal on the Prince William Digital Gateway after litigation unwound the approvals over public-notice defects.

July 26, 2026

Northern Virginia's July 22 fault dropped 3 GW of datacenter load off PJM near-simultaneously, roughly 3% of demand at that moment, a repeat of a July 2024 event where a sub-100-millisecond sag triggered mass disconnects.

April 15, 2026

Northern Virginia and Dallas-Fort Worth have already seen under-construction capacity decline due to power procurement failures.

March 13, 2026

PJM has paused new project reviews in Northern Virginia's Data Center Alley until next year.

March 9, 2026

JLL projects Texas will surpass Northern Virginia as the world's largest datacenter market by 2030.

February 27, 2026

Texas is pulling away from Northern Virginia as the datacenter capital of North America, with 6.5 GW under construction and 22 GW slated for deployment, but the sprint is already stumbling: six Texas projects are delayed and the industry faces a 30-50% slippage rate on scheduled 2026 deliveries.

February 24, 2026

JLL projects the state could surpass Northern Virginia as North America's top datacenter market by 2030, with 6.5 GW currently under construction representing one-fifth of all U.S. pipeline additions last year.

February 21, 2026

Texas is on track to overtake Northern Virginia as the world's largest data center market by 2030, but the buildout is slamming into a three-front resource crisis: grid connection timelines stretching four-plus years, water consumption projected to hit 29 to 161 billion gallons annually by 2030, and organized community resistance that's already killing projects.

February 19, 2026

Texas is on track to overtake Northern Virginia as the world's largest data center market by 2030, with 6.5 GW under construction and a structural shift in site selection now driven almost entirely by power availability.