Amazon has acquired a data center it has been leasing in Manassas, Virginia.

Citing local records, BizJournal reports an affiliate of Menlo Equities sold 7505 Mason King Court to Amazon Data Services for $65 million.

Built in 2003, Digital Realty acquired the site in 2009, leasing all of it to an unnamed “leading IT enterprise company. Digital sold the site to Menlo in 2021 as part of a wider portfolio sale.

The single-story facility spans 110,000 sq ft (10,219 sqm), with some online listings suggesting 20MW of capacity. Online listings also suggest Amazon already operates out of the site as IAD7.

Neither Amazon nor Menlo provided comment to BJ.

Amazon has a major and ever-growing presence across Virginia. Loudoun County hosted Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) first data centers when the then book-selling company launched its first cloud facilities in 2006.

Today, Amazon is known to own or lease data centers around Haymarket, Manassas, Ashburn, Sterling, Chantilly, Warrenton, and McNair, to name a few, spanning Loudoun, Fairfax, Prince William, and Fauquier Counties.

The company’s exact footprint isn’t known, but it totals more than 50 data centers across the region, with dozens more in development.

Greenpeace estimated the company had 1.7GW of capacity in the area back in 2019, having more than doubled that figure since 2015. Amazon's US-East Northern Virginia cloud region has been described as the largest single concentration of corporate data centers in the world.

As well as growing its existing footprint in Loudoun, Fairfax, and Prince William with new facilities, DCD has seen AWS active with plans for new projects in Fauquier, Culpeper, King George, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Louisa, Orange, and Caroline Counties.

Amazon rarely buys data centers, traditionally either leasing or self-building. The company does, however, offer sale-leaseback services for enterprises migrating to the cloud.

Founded in 1994, real estate firm Menlo owns data centers across California, Virginia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Texas. Menlo developed its first data center in Santa Clara back in 1998 and today owns 14 operational facilities across the US.

The company launched a dedicated data center platform, Menlo Digital, last year, claiming a development pipeline totaling close to 800MW across five sites in the US, including projects in Virginia, California, and Arizona.