Meta Platforms, Inc. has leased a warehouse building in Sterling. There are no plans to convert the space to a data center yet. It will serve as a support center for the company’s area data centers, The Washington Business Journal reports.
Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, and Messenger, signed a five-year lease for the entire 76,020-square-foot building at 44211 Mercure Cir. The warehouse was previously leased to JT Logistics, a third-party logistics supplier.
According to WBJ, affiliates of land speculator Chuck Kuhn — founder of JK Moving Services — own this warehouse and several others on the same street. Kuhn filed site plans in 2024 to set up the warehouses for potential data center conversion. That was before Loudoun County took steps to limit data center development.
Northern Virginia is the largest data center market in the world. The area houses an inventory of 4,900 megawatts, according to real estate firm JLL’s quarterly report. There are about another 1,100 megawatts of data center space under construction.
Meta has invested $1 billion in the development of a data center in Henrico County in central Virginia. The company also has several in NoVA, WBJ reports, though they are not listed on the company website and are leased from existing data center campuses.
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