Data centers and water
Data Center Water Use in Loudoun County, VA
Loudoun County, Virginia has 282 mapped data center facilities, including AWS, Google, Microsoft, carrying about 11.73 GW of estimated power load.
Water pressure for new demandHow hard a large new water user, like a data center, would press on this county's water. It blends recent drinking-water compliance, drought, and existing industrial demand. Higher pressure means new demand competes harder with current uses. It is not a judgment about whether one should be built.
Low water pressure
Loudoun County has no health violations in the last 5 years, moderate drought, low existing industrial water demand.
- Mapped facilities
- 282
- EPA + OpenStreetMap layers
- Estimated power load
- 11.73 GW
- IM3 Atlas capacity estimate
- Permitted discharge
- Not reported
- Clean Water Act permit fields
- DCWSI national rank
- #20
- of 318 scored counties
The operators
How many data centers are in Loudoun County?
282 facilities are mapped to Loudoun County, Virginia across the EPA and OpenStreetMap layers, run by operators including AWS, Google, Microsoft. Counts reflect mapped footprint, not an operator's total fleet.
- EPA ECHO
21110 RIDGETOP CIRCLE LLC
STERLING, VA
- EPA ECHO
22810-22860 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE LLC
STERLING, VA
- EPA ECHO
22995 WILDER COURT LLC
DULLES, VA
- OpenStreetMap
42254 THUNDERBALL DR
True North Data Solutions · Leesburg, VA
- OpenStreetMap
42255 THUNDERBALL DR
True North Data Solutions · Leesburg, VA
- OpenStreetMap
42310 THUNDERBALL DR
True North Data Solutions · Leesburg, VA
- OpenStreetMap
42311 THUNDERBALL DR
True North Data Solutions · Leesburg, VA
- OpenStreetMap
Aligned Ashburn
Aligned · 51
- EPA ECHO
ALIGNED DATA CENTERS IAD03
Aligned · STERLING, VA
- OpenStreetMap
Aligned IAD02
Aligned · 51
- OpenStreetMap
Aligned IAD03
Aligned · 51
- EPA ECHO
AMAZON DATA SERVICES IAD-156, IAD-157, IAD-158, IAD-159, AND IAD-327
AWS · CHANTILLY, VA
- EPA ECHO
AMAZON DATA SERVICES IAD-215
AWS · ASHBURN, VA
- EPA ECHO
AMAZON DATA SERVICES INC - IAD-163/164/174
AWS · STERLING, VA
- EPA ECHO
AMAZON DATA SERVICES INC IAD-120/121/122
AWS · STERLING, VA
- EPA ECHO
AMAZON DATA SERVICES INC IAD-161/162
AWS · ASHBURN, VA
- EPA ECHO
AMAZON DATA SERVICES INC IAD-169/179
AWS · ASHBURN, VA
- EPA ECHO
AMAZON DATA SERVICES INC IAD-667, IAD-668, IAD-669, IAD-670, AND IAD-671
AWS · LEESBURG, VA
264 more mapped facilities counted in this county's score.
Supply versus demand
How much water do Loudoun County data centers use?
Exact facility water draw is rarely public. As a screening proxy we compare the Clean Water Act permitted discharge mapped to these facilities against the county's entire industrial water baseline from the USGS 2020 series.
No Clean Water Act permitted discharge is reported for the mapped facilities in Loudoun County. The figures below show the county's industrial water baseline for context.
- Mapped facility discharge
- Not reported
- County industrial baseline
- 1.96 Mgal/day
Model a build
Can Loudoun County support more data centers?
On the water-pressure scale, Loudoun County sits at 19, below the national median, so new large-load demand has more slack here than in most counties. Size a hypothetical build to see the daily draw against the county industrial baseline.
Data Center Water Budget Calculator
Estimate daily water use for a hypothetical facility in Loudoun County.
Your facility would use 40.8% of this county's industrial water baseline. Verify water rights and long-term drought projections before committing.
Based on USGS 2020 water-use data and EPA-standard cooling intensity constants. Not a substitute for site-specific water rights analysis.
In context
How does Loudoun County compare nationally?
- DCWSI build-out rank
- #20
- of 318 counties with a stress score
- Water pressure vs median
- 0
- national median is 19 of 100
- Share of mapped load
- 7.1%
- of 166.02 GW mapped nationally
Loudoun County is one of 330 US counties with mapped data centers. See the full ranking and the interactive map in the national atlas.
Facility data combines EPA ECHO, EPA Clean Water Act permits, OpenStreetMap, and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas (DOE/PNNL), geocoded to county FIPS. Capacity and water baselines come from IM3 and USGS 2020 water-use data. These are county-level screening figures, not a facility-level water-use audit. Read the full methodology.