How Loudoun County’s commercial tax base initiative turned Virginia into a data center hub

Published September 27, 2025 7:00am ET



If data centers are the lifeblood of American artificial intelligence computing, Loudoun County, Virginia is its main artery. 

The rural county straddling Piedmont Virginia and the Washington Metropolitan area is home to 49 million square feet of data center infrastructure, making it the region with highest concentration of data centers in the world. 

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