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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Aligned Data Centers IAD-04 Frederick.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Aligned Data Centers
- Address and locality
- 5601 Manor Woods Road · Adamstown · Frederick County · Maryland · 21703
- Official metro area
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 72 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 26 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000050
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Potomac Edison / FirstEnergy
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Hybrid
- Land area
- 75 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- February 2025
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Maryland Data Center Sales & Use Tax Exemption — 10-year exemption on qualified data-center personal property (extendable to 20 years for $250M+ investment). Aligned's CEO cited "attractive tax exemptions" for choosing Frederick; statutory eligibility only, no project-specific certification confirmed. · Maryland · 2020 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Utility-served (FirstEnergy / Potomac Edison, multi-gigawatt scale per Frederick Chamber). Aligned commits to "100% renewable power" (procurement, not dedicated generation). 172 emergency diesel generators (508 MW combined) MDE-approved (Jan 2025) for backup only.
Water. Aligned describes "Delta³ air cooling arrays" plus "DeltaFlow liquid cooling" within a "closed-loop chilled water system" and markets "near-zero water consumption"; no facility MGD disclosed. Cooling spec is campus-level and may not be IAD-04-specific.
Community. Frederick County Data Center Referendum Committee collected 21,000+ signatures opposing overlay zone expansion. Maryland Supreme Court scheduled to hear referendum appeal. Frederick County Council created Critical Digital Infrastructure Overlay Zone in January 2026.
What the source record says
Part of TPG Real Estate / Catellus Development's 2,100-acre Quantum Frederick campus on former Alcoa Eastalco aluminum plant (closed 2010, demolished 2017) in Frederick County MD. Coordinates are approximate for campus area near Buckeystown/Adamstown. Location.city set to Adamstown per the more recent, project-specific Frederick News-Post coverage (2025-11-11, via Yahoo Finance); the 2021 Maryland Dept. of Commerce announcement had said "near Buckeystown" — recorded here so the choice is auditable rather than looking arbitrary.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2022-01 · source-reported proposed
Aligned announced campus at Quantum Frederick; Maryland regulations on backup generators initially delayed groundbreaking
- 2025-02 · source-reported under construction
Groundbreaking February 5, 2025 after Maryland amended generator regulations. 450,000 sq ft, two-story facility; Turner Construction GC. Structural topping-out milestone completed.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Aligned breaks ground on 72MW Maryland data center in Quantum Frederick Park · Data Center Dynamics
- What Now for Quantum Loophole and the Quantum Frederick Data Center Campus? · Data Center Frontier
- Aligned Maryland Campus IAD04 · Baxtel
- Aligned Maryland Data Centers · Aligned Data Centers
- Maryland Data Center Sales & Use Tax Exemption Program · Maryland Dept. of Commerce
- Quantum Frederick data center campus · Frederick News-Post via Yahoo Finance
- Quantum Frederick, Frederick County, MD: Maryland Data Center Series, Pt. 3 · Nature Forward
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID aligned-quantum-frederick-md. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000050
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): mixed use
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- 5601 Manor Woods Road, Adamstown, MD 21703 · Frederick (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Aligned Data Centers
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: February 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2022-01 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-02 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 75 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 72 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Potomac Edison / FirstEnergy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Hybrid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: opposed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: Maryland Data Center Sales & Use Tax Exemption — 10-year exemption on qualified data-center personal property (extendable to 20 years for $250M+ investment). Aligned's CEO cited "attractive tax exemptions" for choosing Frederick; statutory eligibility only, no project-specific certification confirmed. · Maryland · 2020
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-26
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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