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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Bristow Data Center Campus (MNZ03).
Approximate source coordinates; this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Bristow · Prince William County · Virginia
- Official metro area
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 17 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000964
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
- Dominion Energy Virginia
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 83 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- 2021
Provider notes
Energy. Grid-served by Dominion Energy Virginia (per an interconnection tracker); no on-site generation is reported.
Water. MNZ03 became operational around the 2024–25 transition in Microsoft's cooling standard (from evaporative-assist to closed-loop, zero-water evaporation for new designs), and the specific system installed here is unconfirmed. Microsoft reported reaching corporate 'water-positive' status in FY2025.
Community. MNZ03 was built by-right on the former Atlantic Research rocket-testing site (existing heavy-industrial zoning within the county's data-center overlay), so it required no rezoning and faced no site-specific hearing. But it sits at the epicenter of Prince William County's data-center opposition — supervisors denied a nearby data center 4–2 in Sept 2025, residents sued over an adjacent rezoning, and the county is moving to end the overlay district. Microsoft is eligible for Virginia's data-center sales-and-use tax exemption, but state law bars disclosure of recipients and amounts.
What the source record says
Microsoft does not publicly disclose data center locations; sourced from public property records and third-party tracking databases. 8008 Devlin Road, Bristow. Adjacent to Amazon's Devlin Technology Park parcel and within Prince William County's Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. Coordinates approximate. Status updated to operational per Baxtel (year built 2025); datacentermap.com returned HTTP 429 during fact-check and could not be independently read.
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
- 2021-01 · source-reported proposed
Microsoft acquired 83 acres at 8008 Devlin Road for $83.84M and an adjacent 9.6-acre parcel; multi-phase campus planned, first building (MNZ03) to comprise 250,000 sq ft over three stories
- 2025 · source-reported operational
MNZ03 reported as operational per Baxtel third-party tracking database; year built listed as 2025; described as fully operational Azure facility
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.
- Microsoft 8008 Devlin Rd Data Center — Datacentermap.com · Datacentermap.com
- Microsoft MNZ03 Data Center — Baxtel · Baxtel
- Sustainable by design: Transforming datacenter water efficiency — Microsoft · Microsoft
- Prince William supervisors deny Bristow Campus data center following protest — InsideNova · InsideNova
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-bristow-mnz03-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).
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-000964
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
- Bristow, VA · Prince William (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2021
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2021-01 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 83 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Dominion Energy Virginia
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-17
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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