Amazon has acquired more land in Northern Virginia for potential data center development.

Citing local property records, BizJournal reports BlackChamber sold 6922, 6894, 6898 Wellington Road and 8019 Devlin Road to the cloud company’s Amazon Data Services affiliate. Amazon paid $120 million for a total of 44 acres, equating to around $2.7m per acre.

Details around any planned data centers have not been shared.

The acquired land is just south of due south of the Merrifield Garden Center site sold to BlackChamber last year for $160m.

BlackChamber reportedly paid just under $40m for the land over multiple transactions over the last five years. The acquired sites include undeveloped land and some office/industrial buildings.

The land is reportedly within Prince William County’s Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District, which currently allows that use by right. County officials, however, are considering potentially removing the overlay in the future.

Amazon already has a presence along Wellington Road, including the adjacent 7060 Wellington, and is developing a campus further south along Devlin Road.

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

Today, the company 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.

Black Chamber Partners is part of a private equity firm with a focus on data center development in Northern Virginia. The group was founded in 2019 and focuses on developing build-to-suit powered shells for hyperscalers.