Microsoft has filed an application with the US Army Corps of Engineers to build a data center campus called MNZ07 Wellington at 13490 University Boulevard in Prince William County, Virginia. The project calls for two one-story data center buildings and an on-site substation on 123 acres, situated south of Interstate 66 and north of Wellington Road. Microsoft purchased the 124-acre site in 2024 from local landowner Chuck Kuhn for $465.5 million, and a separate application was filed with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality in July. The company says the campus is needed to address expanding customer demand for cloud platform services in the region.
The filing adds Microsoft to a cluster of large-scale data center projects converging on the same corridor, where Amazon is planning a 2.3 million square foot campus and a Google-linked entity is also developing a nearby facility. The project would affect 955 linear feet of stream channels and 1.95 acres of wetlands, signaling that environmental permitting will be a key variable in the development timeline.
Microsoft filing plans for a data center campus in Prince William County, Virginia is a significant construction announcement from a major hyperscaler in one of the world's largest data center markets. This is a distinct filing from the previously published Microsoft Union City, Georgia story and represents a new project.