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Close ✕Northern Virginia data-centre corridor
The Ashburn–Sterling corridor of Loudoun County, Virginia, and its neighbours — the densest concentration of data-centre capacity anywhere, and the place where the abstraction of "compute"…
39.0, -77.5 · approximate · data-centre concentration from the late 1990s; rapid expansion through the 2020s
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- constrained by Data-centre electricity demand — Further data-centre build-out in the corridor is limited by the pace at which electricity can be connected, not by demand for capacity.
- evidence for Growth in frontier training compute — The concentration of data-centre construction and the electricity demand it has created in one Virginia county is the physical form the compute trend takes on the ground.
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