Serverfarm’s modern, award-winning global portfolio of data centers provides enterprises with critical IT infrastructure and capacity. Our facilities were designed to meet our customers’ rapidly evolving requirements and are highly secure, reliable environments.
InCommand enables enterprise executives and data center teams to manage assets, capacities, and alerts virtually anywhere in the world.
Respectful Design
Visual and decorative screening, including an art wall that showcases local artists, can help mitigate ambient freeway rumble while adding community character.
Waterless Cooling
Our advanced cooling systems use water-free air-cooled chillers to eliminate water waste and reinforce a sustainable design approach.
Economic Impact
This project will generate hundreds of construction jobs and support long-term on-site employment for the community.
Community Recreation
Quantum Field has been donated to the county, preserving the parking lot while creating new green spaces, walkable pathways, seating, and a playground for continued community enjoyment.
Located in Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley, Serverfarm’s new cloud campus sits at the heart of the world’s largest and most interconnected data center hub. Its proximity to Washington, D.C. provides direct access to dense fiber routes, major internet exchanges, and a thriving ecosystem of enterprises and cloud providers—delivering unrivaled global connectivity.
Home to two state-of-the-art facilities, NVA1 and NVA2, this campus is strategically positioned to support local metro fiber connectivity across the surrounding market and beyond. It provides direct access to one of the densest fiber interconnection ecosystems in the region, enabling customers to extend networks, reduce latency, and interconnect cloud workloads. This is not an AI-centric facility; it is a network-focused campus with more than 20 active network operators on site.
Serverfarm is committed to enhancing our Northern Virginia campus in ways that deliver long-term value for both our customers and the surrounding community. Planned site improvements for NVA include expanded green space, walking and biking paths, new seating areas, and thoughtfully designed visual and acoustic screening to minimize impact. By integrating community-focused features such as recreational spaces and improved landscaping, we aim to create a more connected, accessible, and neighbor-friendly environment while continuing to support critical digital infrastructure.
New Trees and Aesthetic Greenery
Visual and Acoustic Screen Wall
Parking Lot
Bike Racks
New Canopy at Stadium Seating
Full Size Athletic Field
New Children's Playground
Visual and Acoustic Screen Wall
Visual Screen Walls Around Generators
Benches and Seating Along Path
New Trees and Aesthetic Greenery
Walkway / Bike Trail Around Campus
Phase 1 Construction
Phase 2 Construction
1. Walkway/Bike Trail 2. Trees and Shrubs 3. Bench / Seating 4. Visual Screen Walls Around Generators 5. Visual and Acoustic Screen Wall 6. Children’s Playground 7. Existing Field Donated to County 8. Canopy at Stadium Seating 9. Bike Racks 10. Parking Lot 11. Visual and Acoustic Screen Wall
Topology
Cooling
Distributed Redundant
Water-Free Air Cooled Chillers
Topology
Cooling
Distributed Redundant
Water-Free Air Cooled Chillers
Northern Virginia is the epicenter of digital infrastructure. Serverfarm brings hyperscale capacity and liquid cooling built for growth. Residents and businesses gain direct access to enhanced digital infrastructure through dense fiber connectivity and major exchanges.
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Serverfarm designed this facility to be a thoughtful neighbor, placing generators and key systems along the freeway-facing edge shielding nearby homes. Artistic screening mitigates ambient freeway rumble while adding community character, and murals and other visual elements help the site blend into the community.
Serverfarm’s Northern Virginia data center features water-free cooling with closed-loop, air-cooled chillers that eliminate evaporative water use while supporting high-density infrastructure.
We value open communication and community engagement. If you have questions about the campus, development process, or future plans, our team is here to help.
Email: info@sfrdc.com
Phone: +1 571.456.3051
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We have submitted a proposal to Fairfax County to redevelop the aging Tysons Technology Center into a modern, two-phase data center facility.
The proposal will provide a much-needed upgrade to the aging commercial and data center buildings that currently occupy the site.
The proposed development is unlike other data centers in the region. This facility is custom-designed to respect the existing building’s footprint, improve the exterior appearance, enhance public space – including the existing soccer field and expanding the walking path around the facility – minimize noise, and ensure that existing buildings do not turn into blighted facilities.
Built in 1978, this property has been an important hub for internet and communications networks in the region. It remains a key part of the infrastructure that helps deliver reliable internet service to local homes, schools, businesses and hospitals.
Because the site already serves as connectivity and data center infrastructure, it’s well suited for modernization. The project is a small-scale upgrade so it can continue to serve both our local community and businesses around the world.
The current facility relies on aging infrastructure and modernizing it is the best way to make it a better neighbor. A redesigned facility lets us bring in today’s more efficient, quieter equipment in place of older systems.
For neighbors, that means a quieter site: the new facility will include sound-reducing materials and modern equipment designed to minimize noise, along with less reliance on backup generators.
The updated facility is designed to meet strict LEED Gold standards, which means it uses much less water and energy, reducing its footprint on the surrounding community.
Although a portion of the approved density was not utilized in constructing the original buildings, the existing entitlements permit an overall density for the property of 0.50 FAR, which the Applicant is using in this modernization project. No additional density is requested.
No, Serverfarm is proposing to keep the building foundation exactly where it is today.
Serverfarm is proposing to improve the pedestrian network by providing the missing links, a new playground and weather protection at the athletic field, and an art wall and enhanced masonry walls with landscaping to improve the aesthetic.
Today the property generates approximately $677,000 in taxes annually. At full buildout, the Vienna Cloud development is projected to generate approximately $9-10 million per year in tax revenue for Fairfax County, exponentially more than what the site currently generates.
Yes, for emergency backup power we use diesel generators due to their superior fuel efficiency compared to alternatives. These generators are only activated during utility outages and are not part of daily operations. County regulations permit up to 36–48 hours of runtime per year; in practice, routine maintenance testing averages less than 12 hours per year.
The 28 new Tier IV generators are quieter than the data center’s current 8 Tier II generators and would run far less than the current obsolete generators. The new Tier IV units also produce lower emissions than the existing generators.
We deliberately moved the generator yard away from the west side of the property (which faces the Kidwell Drive residences) in order to significantly reduce the noise and environmental impacts on those residents caused by the current decrepit infrastructure, and designed that side of the building with office space instead.
The generators are fully enclosed in weatherproof, insulated units that protect them from the elements. They’re also built with sound-dampening features that meet local noise ordinance standards and will be entirely screened from view by new buildings and masonry walls.
The project is designed to be quieter than the current environment and the project abides by Fairfax County noise codes, keeping continuous sound levels below 55 dBA at night and 60 dBA during the day for residential neighbors.
The facility’s new mechanical and cooling equipment would be contained within the building footprint and generator yard, and is designed using state of the art data center engineering practices to manage heat at the source.
The data center will use a closed-loop cooling system, which recirculates water rather than evaporating it. This design uses ~70% less water than traditional cooling and produces near-zero waste.
For comparison, the table below depicts the average consumption of a typical school, and the before and after data centers.
Building Type | Daily Water Use |
New 50MW Data Center, 300,000 sq ft – Waterless Cooling | 1,500 Gallons |
Former office space with 200 employees and data center | 10,500 Gallons |
Day School with 300 students | 4,500 Gallons |
No, it will generate significantly less traffic. At its full capacity, the current data center and office space generate approximately 850 vehicle trips a day. The new facility will generate only 25–30 vehicle trips a day, plus occasional deliveries.
We are working with the local government to align on the construction schedule. We will inform community members of construction prior to beginning.
While there will be construction related traffic, Serverfarm will ensure that streets are not impacted.
Serverfarm will work with FCPA to ensure the field and parking areas remain open during the installation of the proposed park enhancements including the new walking pathway to the north, playground and bleacher weather protection.
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