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$5B Data Center Campus on Former Landover Mall Footprint Could Break Ground by 2026
A major new data center campus on the vacant former Landover Mall site, Prince George’s County’s largest such project to date, could break ground as soon as 2026.
The campus could accommodate up to 820 megawatts of power consumption, Jaclyn Cohen of Lerner Enterprises told me in an email, putting it well within “hyperscale” territory. It is anticipated to represent some $5 billion in capital investment and break ground in 2026 or 2027, Cohen said. A rendering furnished to me by Lerner shows a cluster of five data center facilities.
Brightseat Associates LLC, an affiliate Lerner Enterprises and The Tower Cos., gained final plat approvals Oct. 16 for 4.1 million square feet of data centers — a project dubbed Brightseat Tech Park — on about 87 acres centered on 2101 Brightseat Road, enshrining a green light from county regulators it won in March.
David Iannucci, who heads the Prince George’s Economic Development Corp., told me in a recent interview he’s prioritized attracting data centers to the county because of the huge commercial tax revenues they generate. For perspective, Loudoun County, the data center capital of the world, budgeted over $670 million in personal property taxes paid on data centers’ computer equipment alone for fiscal year 2025 — equivalent to two-thirds of the county’s entire general fund budget.
Read more of the story by Dan Brendel of Washington Business Journal