Penzance, a Mid-Atlantic real estate investment and development firm, has broken ground on a next-generation data center in Chantilly, Va. Designed for hyperscale demand and maximum energy efficiency, the project sets a new standard for sustainability and scope in hyperscale development.
The 45-megawatt, 240,000-square-foot facility will utilize high-efficiency air-cooled systems, rooftop HVAC units and acoustically enclosed generators to limit operational noise and vibration.
Penzance has executed a lease with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which will operate and staff the data center. Josh Weissman, director of data center delivery at AWS, said like the company’s other facilities, this site will use minimal water and rely only on outside air for cooling 95 percent of the year.
“This is a high-impact, future-ready facility — and it’s built for what comes next in [artificial intelligence] AI, cloud and edge computing,” said John Kusturiss, partner at Penza
