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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Rowan Digital Infrastructure
- Address and locality
- Adamstown · Frederick County · Maryland
- Official metro area
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 6 October 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-001266
The underlying provider record is retained. These notes add source-attributed context and flag conflicts; any withheld value is explained separately. They do not certify current operation.
- status: The new history attributes operational status to the operator CEO's October 2026 report of energization and first-tenant handover.
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
- Evaporative
- Reported water use
- 0.44 million gallons per day (source-reported)
- Land area
- 151 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- 2024
Provider notes
Energy. Served from the regional grid; the Maryland PSC approved Potomac Edison's plan to loop two existing 230 kV lines from the Doubs substation into a new switching station feeding the on-site Bauxite substation (built by Potomac Edison). County filings describe up to 92 x 2.75 MW backup generators (~253 MW, diesel or HVO).
Water. 440,000 gallons/day cooling water allocated to Rowan's 156-acre parcel per Frederick County records
Community. Neighboring residents raised health concerns over construction dust and traffic in November 2025. Frederick County overlay zone referendum effort collected 21,000+ signatures; Maryland Supreme Court case pending.
What the source record says
Rowan (Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners + Birch Infrastructure JV) serves as AWS hyperscale host at Quantum Frederick. Three campuses planned on-site total; Bauxite I is Phase 1 at 300MW. 777,150 sq ft total campus footprint. Coordinates approximate for same Quantum Frederick campus area as Aligned record. 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. AWS is the confirmed tenant of Bauxite I on this former Alcoa Eastalco Works site — AWS's first Maryland data center; no source confirms go-live as of this pass.
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
- 2023-01 · source-reported proposed
Rowan announced three-campus development plan at Quantum Frederick; designed as AWS Maryland availability zone host
- 2024-01 · source-reported under construction
Ground broken 2024 on Bauxite I (300MW, Phase 1). Phase 2 financing: $1.24B closed February 2025, led by SMBC and MUFG; $2.2B total secured. AWS Maryland availability zone expected 2026.
- 2026-10-06 · source-reported operational
Rowan Digital Infrastructure's own CEO blog post confirms Bauxite I at the Frederick campus was energized and turned over to its first tenant, delivering 200+MW — the campus's first phase coming online.
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.
- Rowan secures $1.2bn for Maryland data center campus build-out · Data Center Dynamics
- Rowan Digital Infrastructure is building AWS's Maryland availability zone at Quantum Frederick Campus · The Tech Capital
- Potomac Edison granted waiver to connect Doubs substation with Rowan data center · Frederick News-Post
- Amazon identified as tenant of Bauxite data center · Yahoo News
- Quantum Frederick, Frederick County, MD: Maryland Data Center Series, Pt. 3 — AWS BWI (Rowan Bauxite I): 151 acres, four buildings, 300 MW · Nature Forward
- Five Years In — A message from Rowan CEO Charley Daitch · Rowan Digital Infrastructure
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID rowan-digital-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001266
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
- Adamstown, MD · Frederick (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Rowan Digital Infrastructure
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: 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2023-01 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2024-01 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-10-06 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 151 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 300 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: Evaporative
Provider label.
- Reported water use: 0.44 million gallons per day (source-reported)
Whether this is metered use, a permit limit or a request is not established; see the provider water note.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: opposed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-06
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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