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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Aurora AI Factory.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Digital Realty
- Address and locality
- Manassas · Prince William County · Virginia
- Official metro area
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 96 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000461
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.
- Power source
- Grid
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- 28 October 2025
Provider notes
Energy. Designed as a 'power-flexible' grid-connected facility rather than one relying on on-site generation; Emerald AI advisor Tyler Norris framed this explicitly as an alternative to on-site generation or storage.
What the source record says
Nvidia's 'Aurora AI factory', built by Digital Realty on an existing Digital Realty site near Nokesville Road and Prince William Parkway. Billed as the first facility built to a new industry certification for flexible power, developed by Nvidia with Emerald AI, EPRI and grid operator PJM, and deploying Emerald AI's Emerald Conductor software to shift AI workloads in response to grid conditions. Operator is recorded as Digital Realty (owner/builder); Nvidia is the named tenant. Status is held at under_construction because no source consulted confirms it has entered service, only that operations were 'slated for' the first half of 2026.
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
- 2025-10-30 · source-reported under construction
DCD reported the 96MW Aurora data center as under construction, being built by Digital Realty and slated for operations in the first half of 2026.
Sources and attribution
- Nvidia to deploy Emerald AI's orchestration software at 96MW Aurora data center in Manassas, Virginia · Data Center Dynamics (via Internet Archive)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID digital-realty-aurora-ai-factory-manassas-va. 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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000461
Licensed directory row.
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Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Manassas, VA · Prince William (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Digital Realty
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: 28 October 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-10-30 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 96 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.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-09
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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