Data center developer Serverfarm is looking to redevelop an office property in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
First reported by BizJournal, Serverfarm this month filed a rezoning and special exception application to redevelop 7980 and 7990 Quantum Drive in Tysons, Fairfax County.
The Vienna Cloud project would include two data center buildings at the complex, currently known as the Tysons Technology Center. 7980 Quantum would be replaced with a 95,015 sq ft (8,827 sqm) data center building, while 7990 Quantum would be replaced with a 221,215 sq ft (20,552 sqm) facility in the second phase.
The properties currently house two 1970s office blocks and a parking lot. The site is around 500 meters (1,640 feet) from the original MAE-East Internet Exchange Point set up in the 1990s.
Serverfarm purchased the properties in October from Legacy Investing and Element Critical, which paid an affiliate of The Meridian Group for $97 million in 2017 for the property. Meridian acquired the campus from SAIC for $63 million in 2011.
Equinix operates its DC7 data center out of 7790 Quantum Drive, offering 27,355 sq ft (2,541 sqm) of colocation space. Element Critical (formerly known as CentralColo) also operated out of the building, listing it as VA1. No longer listed on the company’s site, an old Element Critical brochure suggests the 200,000 sq ft (18,581 sqm) site offers 10MW of utility power across 87,560 sq ft (8,135 sqm) of raised floor, expandable to 15MW.
Serverfarm, founded in 2009 by real estate development firm Red Sea Group, was acquired by Manulife in 2023. The company operates 10 data centers across North America, Europe, and Israel, totaling more than 1.5 million gross sq ft (139,400 sqm) of data center space and 625MW of IT capacity.
On its website, Serverfarm lists facilities in operation in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Moses Lake, Tel Aviv, and Toronto.
7980 Quantum Drive was put up for sale in 2023, marketed for potential development as a 237-unit multifamily building. The General Services Administration was previously a tenant of the building.
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