Greater Washington is a technology-rich economy, and no sector is more dominant on a global scale that data centers.
The growing demand for cloud-enabled services, and the fight for cloud-related federal contracts, has made acquiring acreage to host new data centers a top priority for numerous companies — no two more than Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT).
No place has that been more true than in Northern Virginia, where business-friendly county officials and savvy landowners, armed with vast assemblages of land, abundant power sources, strong fiber connections and state tax incentives, have capitalized on the demand. Loudoun County alone has more than 25 million square feet of data centers in operation, with 4 million more square feet under construction, according to its Department of Economic Development. Prince William, Fauquier and Fairfax counties are making moves as well.
Of course there are other players in the data center space — Digital…
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