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Board approves two data‑center campus expansions amid resident concerns
Summary
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors unanimously approved rezonings for two data‑center campus expansions — CloudHQ at Manassas Corporate Center and Iron Mountain along Wellington Road — after staff presentations and public comment about noise, lighting and buffers.
The Prince William County Board of County Supervisors unanimously approved rezonings on separate motions that will allow data‑center campus expansions at Manassas Corporate Center and at Iron Mountain’s Wellington Road campus.
The board voted to approve REZ2024‑00025 for a CloudHQ data center at the Manassas Corporate Center site, a roughly 22.5‑acre parcel within the county’s Data Center Overlay District. The board later approved a rezoning for Iron Mountain’s proposed building on an 18.9‑acre parcel on Wellington Road within an existing data‑center campus. Both proposals were presented by applicants and reviewed and recommended for approval by county planning staff and the Planning Commission.
Why it mattered: Both sites are in areas the county’s comprehensive plan designates for industrial and technology‑flex uses (I‑3) and within the Data Center Overlay District, but each project drew public concern because of proximity to existing residences. Supervisors and county planners emphasized design, landscaping and noise mitigation measures proposed by the applicants to address those concerns.
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