Amazon plans to demolish at least 11 office buildings in Northern Virginia and replace them with data centers as part of its $35B expansion in the area.
The tech and cloud computing giant has filed plans with Loudoun County officials to raze nine office buildings on three different properties in Sterling, replacing them with four data centers totaling more than 900K SF, the Washington Business Journal reports.
Amazon is already in the process of redeveloping a two-building office property in neighboring Fairfax County into a data center. The projects come as the company increasingly turns to brownfield developments amid power and land constraints in the world’s largest data center…