Overview
- Compass Datacenters said Wednesday it will not appeal the March 31 decision and will not move forward with the project.
- The Virginia Court of Appeals on March 31 upheld a judge’s finding that the 2023 rezonings were invalid because the county failed to give proper public notice.
- Prince William County’s board voted in mid-April to stop defending the rezoning after spending about $1.7 million in legal costs.
- QTS, the other developer tied to the plan, has not said whether it will pursue further appeals, leaving the effort effectively stalled.
- The proposal called for about 22 million square feet of data centers across roughly 2,000 acres near Manassas National Battlefield, and developers assembled nearly 100 land sale agreements, one of which has led a landowner to sue QTS in federal court.