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Data centers in Manassas City, VA

Everything on file with the regulator, added up. Every figure links to the filing it came from.

4data center sites
4issued air permits
61permitted backup generators
287tons/year NOx permitted

Ranked 9 of 14 counties.

Manassas City holds 61 permitted backup generators across 4 sites. The median tracked county with any generator data has 248.

Counties with permitted generator counts Groundwork has read from permit documents. Only Virginia publishes permits in a form that makes this countable today, so this ranking is Virginia-only — not a claim that no county elsewhere is denser.

What this does — and doesn't — mean.

It is smaller than it sounds

These are emergency backup generators. They are permitted to run during grid outages and for routine testing — typically tens of hours a year, not continuously. A permit is a ceiling on what a site may emit, not a measurement of what it does emit.

A permit also is not a building. An issued permit establishes approval; it does not establish that anything is built, energised or running.

None of the 2 sites here that Groundwork could locate sits in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area.

It is bigger than any one filing shows

No single permit discloses the 61 generators permitted in this county. That number exists only because 4 separately-published filings were added together. Each one, read alone, looks routine.

2 of the 4 permits here with a readable NOx figure are permitted at 90–99.99 tons per year — just beneath the 100 ton/year threshold that triggers major-source review and public participation. Statewide the pattern is sharper still: 70 permits sit in that band and 2 reach 100.

SiteOperatorPermitted NOx (t/yr)Under 100 by
Amazon Data Services Inc IAD-205/307/317/612/612xAmazon94.775.23
Amazon Data Services Inc - IAD-104/105/106Amazon93.166.84

Read from the emissions table of each permit and labelled probable accordingly. A permit sized below a review threshold is lawful and common; Groundwork reports the pattern, and takes no view on any individual application.

Every tracked site in Manassas City.

SiteOperatorPermitsGeneratorsNOx t/yrFlood zone
SI NVA05A, LLC and SI NVA05D, LLCSTACK Infrastructure12148.45Zone X
Cashvad Ventures LLC—12051.04Pending
Amazon Data Services Inc - IAD-104/105/106Amazon11593.16Pending
Amazon Data Services Inc IAD-205/307/317/612/612xAmazon1594.77Zone X

2 operators of record · 2 of 2 located sites draw from a basin WRI rates high or extremely high for water stress.

What VA publishes

Virginia is the only state that publishes a data-center-specific air permit list, with the issuance document for every permit. That is why Virginia pages carry permit counts, generator counts and permitted NOx, and most other states do not.

  • VA DEQ — Issued Air Permits for Data Centersin use. 201 permits, each with its issuance PDF, read for address, equipment and permitted emissions.

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