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Brightseat Tech Park

Landover, Prince George's County, MD

Also known as Landover Mall data center

ApprovedPlanning approvals granted in 2024; County Council approved a two-year data center moratorium in July 2026
  1. Rumored
  2. Proposed
  3. Approved
  4. Under construction
  5. Operating

Lerner Enterprises' Brightseat Tech Park would develop around 4.1 million square feet of data center space on the 87-acre former Landover Mall site, with 820MW across five data centers and up to $5 billion invested. The Prince George's County Planning Board unanimously approved the application in March 2024. In September 2025 the county executive delayed data center approvals, and in July 2026 the County Council approved a two-year moratorium on data center permitting and development.

Planned capacity
820 MW[3]
across five data centers
Stated investment
$5 billion[3]
up to $5 billion
Site size
87 acres[2]

Key facts

Size & schedule

Planned capacity820 MW [3]
across five data centers
Source excerpt
“820MW across five data centers”
Site size87 acres [2]
Source excerpt
“Spanning an 87-acre site, the Brightseat Tech Park project would span around 4.1 million sq ft (380,900 sqm) of potential data center space.”
Floor area4.1 million sq ft [2]
around 4.1 million sq ft of potential data center space
Source excerpt
“Spanning an 87-acre site, the Brightseat Tech Park project would span around 4.1 million sq ft (380,900 sqm) of potential data center space.”
Buildings5 [6]
Source excerpt
“a 'hyperscale' data center that would feature five buildings and use 820 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 656,000 homes at any given time.”
Stated investment$5 billion [3]
up to $5 billion
Source excerpt
“could see up to $5 billion invested”

How big is that? Data center sizes compared with football fields and Central Park.

Local decisions & site

ZoningEarly-stage application filed for a 'qualified data center' on the site [2]
Source excerpt
“Lerner, as a potential backup if it lost out, last year filed an early-stage application with Prince George's County's land use regulatory agency for a 'qualified data center' on the site.”

Figures are as stated by the cited source. Where sources disagree, each figure is shown.

Water and power

Water

Not disclosed. No source reviewed gives a water figure for this site. The Census does not estimate one.

Power

Planned capacity820 MW [3]

Disclosed figures only, each as the cited source states it. Many are projections or permit limits, not metered use. How data center water and power use is measured, and every disclosed figure →

Timeline

  1. Reports say Lerner has filed a natural resources inventory for the former Landover Mall site, a first step toward a data center, while the site competes for the FBI headquarters [1]

  2. Prince George's County Planning Board unanimously approves Lerner's application to develop data centers on the site [2]

  3. Project gains final plan approvals [3]

  4. County Executive Aisha Braveboy signs executive order delaying data center approvals until Dec. 31; County Council votes unanimously for a six-month pause [4]

  5. County Council approves a two-year moratorium on data center permitting and development [8]

  6. Council committee unanimously recommends legislation to reinstate detailed site plan review for data centers [8]

Issues raised

  • A resident petition against the project gathered more than 21,000 signatures [6]
  • Opponents cite environmental concerns and potential energy and water use [5]
  • Council Chair Krystal Oriadha described the Landover Mall project, which the county is trying to stop, as harmful [7]
  • Lerner Enterprises had not applied for additional permits as of January 2026, according to a council member [6]

Issues are concerns and claims raised by the parties, officials or residents named in the cited sources. They are reported as attributed, not as findings by the Census.

Sources

  1. Landover Mall site earmarked for FBI headquarters could become data center instead
    NBC4 Washington · Aug 16, 2023 · news
  2. Maryland planning board approves Lerner's application for data centers on former mall site
    DatacenterDynamics · Mar 18, 2024 · news
  3. Lerner's Maryland data center campus could total 820MW
    DatacenterDynamics · Oct 29, 2024 · news
  4. Prince George's County leaders pause data center development plans amid resident concerns
    The Diamondback · Sep 19, 2025 · news
  5. Dozens rally in Prince George's County against data center project at abandoned mall site
    WTOP News · Sep 2025 · news
  6. Data centers spark 'fight for the soul' of a mostly Black MD county
    The Daily Record (The Washington Post) · Jan 2, 2026 · news
  7. Two-year moratorium on data center development passes in Prince George's Co.
    WTOP News · Jul 2026 · news
  8. Prince George's County Council advances bill to reinstate data center site plan reviews
    The Diamondback · Sep 18, 2026 · news

Cite this page

Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Figures may change as records are updated — include the date you retrieved them.

APAData Center Census. (2026). Brightseat Tech Park. Retrieved from https://datacentercensus.com/dc/brightseat-tech-park-landover-md
MLA“Brightseat Tech Park.” Data Center Census, Sep 23, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/dc/brightseat-tech-park-landover-md.
Linkhttps://datacentercensus.com/dc/brightseat-tech-park-landover-md

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