How many data centers are in Northern Virginia? Northern Virginia has 287 verified data center facilities, a major U.S. data center market. The largest data center market in Northern Virginia is Ashburn with 77 facilities. Northern Virginia hosts 60 data center operators, with AWS (105), Equinix (20), and Digital Realty (15) operating the most facilities. Concentration patterns reflect a combination of power-availability corridors, fiber convergence, and historical tenant anchors that shape where capacity clusters across the Northern Virginia market, from the dominant submarket to its secondary anchors.
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Northern Virginia Data Center DirectoryFiltered
The Data Center Alley corridor is one of the most concentrated data center markets in the United States. The Northern Virginia data center directory lists 287 verified facilities across 11 cities, operated by 60 providers. Search by name, operator, or city, and filter by size. Each facility record is drawn from up to 15 source datasets, cross-checked where multiple sources are available, giving IT teams a comprehensive view of capacity, geography, and operator footprint in one place. Sorting and filtering run in the browser, so the full inventory of Northern Virginia facilities stays visible as you narrow by operator, city, or size.
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Top Data Center Operators in Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia has 60 active data center operators. AWS leads with 105 facilities, representing roughly 37% of the regional data center footprint. The remaining operators include a mix of hyperscale cloud providers, retail and wholesale colocation specialists, network carriers running points of presence, and enterprise-owned build-to-suit campuses. Operators that run multiple sites under subsidiary or brand names are counted once under the parent company, so the table reflects the operator most consistently named for each site across the source datasets in Northern Virginia rather than how any single listing labels it, a distinction that matters when an enterprise weighs a colocation contract or plans a decommission and needs a consistent operator name to start from.
Data Center Markets in Northern Virginia
Data center facilities in Northern Virginia are distributed across 11 cities. The three largest markets are Ashburn (77 facilities), Sterling (76), and Manassas (51). Each market entry resolves to a dedicated city-level page with operator footprint and verified addresses for that local market. Distribution patterns vary by submarket: power-availability corridors, fiber convergence, and historical tenant anchors all shape where new capacity lands, so the regional shape of Northern Virginia reads differently from any single source's headline count.
Data Center IT Asset Recovery
287 data center facilities across 11 cities in Northern Virginia house enterprise-grade IT infrastructure spanning servers, storage arrays, networking equipment, and power systems. When Northern Virginia facilities upgrade, refresh, or decommission IT assets, every component requires certified handling to ensure data security, environmental compliance, and maximum value recovery. ITAMG buys back enterprise hardware from data center operators across Northern Virginia, recovering residual value on servers, storage arrays, networking gear, and rack accessories. Pricing reflects real secondary-market demand for the brands and configurations that move on this side of the lifecycle, with chain-of-custody documentation provided on every transaction so the disposition record stands up to audit.
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What ITAMG Customers Say About Data Center Decommissioning
ITAMG is rated 5.0 on Gartner Peer Insights and 4.9 on Google across more than 100 verified client reviews, among the strongest ratings in the IT asset disposition field. The reviews below are drawn from enterprise IT teams, facility managers, and procurement leads who have worked with ITAMG on data center decommissioning, secure data destruction, and IT equipment recovery. Their feedback centers on the operational details that matter most when retiring data center hardware: chain-of-custody documentation, on-site scheduling around live facilities, and verifiable data sanitization before any asset leaves the building.
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Data Centers in Northern Virginia: Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about data centers in Northern Virginia, answered using verified data from ITAMG's multi-source directory of 287 facilities, each figure drawn from up to 15 source datasets. The questions below cover how many data centers operate in Northern Virginia, which operators run the most facilities, where they concentrate geographically, and the data sources behind the listings.
ITAMG Data Centers in Northern Virginia: Methodology
ITAMG compiles the Northern Virginia data center directory through a multi-source entity resolution process. Raw facility records from up to 15 source datasets are ingested, normalized, and deduplicated using a four-tier matching algorithm (Google Place ID matching, address normalization, coordinate proximity, and operator-name similarity). Where a facility hosts multiple providers, the Index reports the facility operator, which may differ from a provider named in the facility's name. Each merged facility receives a confidence score from 0 to 100 based on source count, address verification quality, operator confirmation, data richness, and source authority. Only facilities scoring 20 or higher and passing a data center classification filter are included in the public directory. The Northern Virginia directory currently includes 287 verified data center facilities operated by 60 providers across 11 member cities. Every Northern Virginia facility in this database is cross-checked where more than one source dataset reports it before it appears in the public listing. Counts describe the facilities included in this directory.
Operator names and trademarks referenced in this directory are property of their respective owners. ITAMG is an independent IT asset disposition company and is not affiliated with the data center operators listed.
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