A developer is planning to build a 20MW data center in Maryland.
TPC Data Centers, via Mid-Atlantic LLC, is planning a 20MW data center in Prince George's County at 6201 Frost Place in Laurel, close to the Burtonville substation.
The powered shell facility – listed at Konterra 1 – will span 150,000 sq ft across two floors. The greenfield site will offer 12MW at launch and has the potential to reach 30MW.
The company claims the site will have a PUE of 1.1 thanks to a proprietary cooling system. TPC says its HDAC system supplies dual-temperature chilled water for both air-cooled and liquid-cooled IT equipment.
TPC is led by CEO Brad Moore, who also leads data center investment firm Twin Palms Capital Group. TPC is a subsidiary of Twin Palms. The company seems to be working with real estate company Konterra Realty for the project.
In a brochure, the company suggests plans for two sites totaling 160MW near the Laurel facility.
TPC and Twin Palms websites list other future locations as the Elliot Technology Park in Mesa, Arizona; Raleigh, North Carolina; San Antonio, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; South Bend, Indiana; Littleton and Waltham, Massachusetts; and Broward County, Florida.
A post from 2020 suggested Twin Palms was previously planning to partner with Involta (recently renamed Ark) and planned to develop 27 Edge data centers across the US. The company initially planned to develop sites in Littleton and Waltham; Massachusetts; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Nashville, Tennessee; and Seattle, Washington.
Laurel is a city in Maryland, located midway between Washington DC and Baltimore on the banks of the Patuxent River. Real estate firm Lerner is also planning a data center campus in Maryland’s Prince George’s County, some 15 miles south in Landover.
Not traditionally a major data center market, Maryland is becoming a new option for operators looking to build out close to space-and-power-constrained Loudoun County in neighboring Virginia. Quantum Loophole is developing a 2GW data center park in Frederick County on which other wholesalers can develop.
