{"comps": {"land": [{"asset": null, "buyer": "TA Realty", "date": null, "mw": null, "seller": null, "type": "land_acquisition", "value": 61.0}], "powered_shell": []}, "hero": {"composite_score": null, "computed_at": "2026-11-12T08:46:39.129243+00:00", "constraint_score": null, "excess_power": null, "iso": "PJM", "lat": 38.97, "lng": -77.46, "name": "STERLING", "queue_wait_months": null, "slug": "sterling", "state": "VA", "time_to_power_mo": null, "time_to_power_months": null, "verdict": "AVOID"}, "is_pro": true, "kpis": {"facility_count": 231, "headline_basis": "every facility listing DC Hub tracks in this market (operational, under construction, planned and announced; verified and unverified listings included), deduplicated by name + operator across the facilities and discovered_facilities tables. MW is summed over the listings that report capacity (mw_reporting_count of facility_count), so read it as a floor.", "lease_rate": null, "mw_reporting_count": 63, "operational_mw": 8310.0, "pipeline_mw": 717.0, "queue_months": null, "top_operator": {"facility_count": 98, "name": "Amazon Web Services"}, "total_mw": 2741.0, "unverified_included": true, "vacancy_pct": null}, "live_as_of": {"age_hours": 0.0, "iso": "2026-11-12T08:46:39.129243+00:00"}, "ma": [{"buyer": "TA Realty", "date": null, "mw": null, "seller": null, "type": "land_acquisition", "value": 61.0, "value_unit": "USD millions"}], "ok": true, "open_access": "Open to every caller: this is one of the 20 largest US data-center markets by tracked capacity, and its full market briefing (grid, risk, time to power, scores) is free.", "operators": [{"facility_count": 98, "operator": "Amazon Web Services", "ranked_by": "facility_count", "total_mw": 2000.0}, {"facility_count": 18, "operator": "CyrusOne", "ranked_by": "facility_count", "total_mw": 229.0}, {"facility_count": 16, "operator": "AWS", "ranked_by": "facility_count", "total_mw": 0.0}, {"facility_count": 9, "operator": "Vantage Data Centers", "ranked_by": "facility_count", "total_mw": 100.0}, {"facility_count": 8, "operator": "Digital Realty", "ranked_by": "facility_count", "total_mw": 28.0}], "outlook": {"generated_at": "2026-11-07T09:29:22.284829+00:00", "narrative_md": "# Sterling Data Center Market Brief\n\nSterling hosts 231 tracked facilities totaling 2,741 MW across all development stages. Amazon Web Services operates the largest footprint with 98 sites, followed by CyrusOne at 18 sites and a separate AWS entity at 16 sites.\n\nThe DCPI verdict reflects acute power supply tension. This is not a statement about market demand or facility quality\u2014it reflects the documented difficulty of securing new power supply in the market's current state.\n\nDeal flow in Sterling has stalled; no recent transactions are tracked. However, Sterling itself shows no recorded deals in the tracked window, and no announced projects are attributed to new operator entry or major capacity commitments in the market.\n\nUntil interconnection backlogs clear or new utility capacity comes online, operators citing or expanding in Sterling will face prolonged lead times and elevated procurement costs for incremental power.", "rationale": null, "verdict": "AVOID", "word_count": 214}, "pipeline": [{"eta": null, "facility": "Yondr Loudoun County Expansion (270 acres)", "operator": "Yondr Group", "power_mw": 240.0, "status": "Planned"}, {"eta": null, "facility": "Prime Data Centers Ashburn", "operator": "Prime Data Centers", "power_mw": 120.0, "status": "Under Construction"}, {"eta": null, "facility": "Compass Loudoun County Campus", "operator": "Compass Datacenters", "power_mw": 100.0, "status": "Under Construction"}, {"eta": null, "facility": "PowerHouse Arcola", "operator": "PowerHouse Data Centers", "power_mw": 80.0, "status": "Under Construction"}, {"eta": null, "facility": "EdgeCore Ashburn Moran Road", "operator": "EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure", "power_mw": 57.0, "status": "Under Construction"}, {"eta": null, "facility": "EdgeCore Ashburn Maries Road", "operator": "EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure", "power_mw": 57.0, "status": "Under Construction"}, {"eta": null, "facility": "Yondr Allegro North Campus (Loudoun County)", "operator": "Yondr Group", "power_mw": 48.0, "status": "Under Construction"}, {"eta": null, "facility": "Vantage Virginia Expansion", "operator": "Vantage Data Centers", "power_mw": 15.0, "status": "Planned"}, {"eta": null, "facility": "PowerHouse Pacific (Sterling)", "operator": "PowerHouse Data Centers", "power_mw": null, "status": "Under Construction"}], "power_grid": {"gen_additions_mw": 3478.5, "interconnection_pending_mw": 298922.2, "iso": "PJM", "iso_queue": {"as_of": "2026-11-12", "as_of_basis": "live_feed_fetch_date", "basis_note": "Active serial + Transition Cycle (TC1/TC2) + Cycle 1 generation requests, sum of MFO (maximum facility output, not firm MW capacity); excludes transmission-service requests, In Service and Withdrawn. Since 2026-10-20 this total includes PJM's Cycle 1 requests, which the serial export alone did not list (that is why it rose from ~135 GW); not a PJM refresh", "iso": "PJM", "queue_kind": "generation_queue", "queued_generation_gw": 373.6, "source_files": [{"file_date": null, "gw": 133.22, "rows": 626, "url": "https://services.pjm.com/PJMPlanningApi/api/Queue/ExportToXls"}, {"file_date": null, "gw": 240.37, "rows": 617, "url": "https://www.pjm.com/m/ProjectTransition/GenerateExcelTransitionProjectsAll"}], "source_name": "PJM cycle + serial service request status (active generation requests, sum of MFO)", "source_url": "https://www.pjm.com/planning/m/cycle-service-request-status"}, "queue_capacity_mw": 71154.9, "queue_wait_months": null, "reserve_margin_pct": null, "time_to_power_as_of": "2026-11-12T08:46:39.129243+00:00", "time_to_power_basis": "DCPI modelled months to energize a new large load in this market (method: https://dchub.cloud/dcpi/methodology); a model estimate, not a utility date", "time_to_power_months": null}, "redirect_to": null, "requested": "sterling", "risk": {"drought_months_d2_plus": null, "errors": {"drought_months_d2_plus": "no_drought_source_ingested"}, "water_band": 3, "water_band_label": "Medium-High", "water_category": "mean of 52 Aqueduct 4.0 baseline-annual basins (arid counted as ", "water_stress": 49.0, "wildfire_seismic_note": null}, "slug": "sterling", "tier": "FREE", "_gated": true, "_locked_fields": ["constraint_score", "excess_power", "excess_power_score", "reserve_margin_pct", "time_to_power_mo", "time_to_power_months", "top_opportunities_json", "top_risks_json"], "_upgrade_cta": "BUILD/CAUTION/AVOID verdicts, the composite score and the market list are free. The DCPI sub-scores (excess-power, grid-constraint, time-to-power) and risk/opportunity detail unlock with the DC Hub plan with every tool: https://dchub.cloud/pricing."}