“”Datacenter Dangers #13 – Datacenter Hell in Maryland’s Agricultural Preserve – SkyNet, and the “New LAIy Lines””One Datacenter proposed for Dickerson, Maryland is admittedly gauged to consume 75% of the county’s current power — so that’s a near-doubling of power consumption of the entire county; however, this power is to be concentrated in a land area that is just 0.001% of the total county land surface, making all the ills not spread over the surface of the ‘waterbed’ (of the entire county surface) but instead focused dramatically into a nail-point. There will be extremely dire consequences for those living along the “New LAIy Lines” [where the ultra-concentrated power/current-flows are directed, either by overhead high-voltage lines and/or by as-yet-unknown telluric/geologic characteristics and water-flows].”
The privatization of the power companies was early manuevering to allow sales of power to highest-bidder with any regard for local or regional ‘duty’ or ‘greater good’ effectively shed. WE KNEW IT WAS A BIG TRICK, A SCAM BACK THEN, WE JUST DID NOT KNOW WHY.
Electrical Gluttony. Water Consumption. Noise Pollution. Ground Vibration. Powerline Harmonics. Incessant Toxic Badness.
10+part sourced Series deeply explores the Many Serious Ill-Effects of Datacenters.
This is not us merely saying these things are or may be so; instead, every statement is sourced by scientific studies, published experiences, harmed victims. Intelligence requires learning from own mistakes. Wisdom involves learning from others’ mistakes.
“A 2026 power-engineering study found that hyperscale data centers behave not merely as electrical loads, but as vast power-electronics systems whose rapidly fluctuating server demands can excite grid oscillations and propagate disturbances across interconnected networks. Far from a fringe “dirty electricity” claim, the research suggests data centers may interact with the power grid in ways fundamentally different from traditional industrial facilities, raising serious new concerns about resonance, stability, reliability.”
Frederick/Adamstown data-center cluster is mostly southwest — Frederick County / north of Adamstown, centered on the former Eastalco/Alcoa aluminum plant area.
Adamstown / Frederick County cluster
1. Quantum Frederick / Catellus hyperscale campus
- Location: former Eastalco aluminum site, north of Adamstown, southern Frederick County.
- Scale: ~2,100 acres, planned ~17.4M sq ft, ~2.4 GW power.
- Frederick County describes it as the main master-planned hyperscale campus.
- Sources:
https://discoverfrederickmd.com/171/Data-Centers
https://www.catellus.com/hyperscale-data-center-campus
2. Aligned Data Centers IAD-04 / Maryland campus
- Address: 5601 Manor Woods Road, Frederick, MD 21703
- Scale: public listings show 75-acre campus / 120 MW for IAD-04; Aligned describes the
Frederick County campus as part of its Maryland expansion. - Sources:
https://aligneddc.com/maryland-data-centers/
https://www.datacenters.com/aligned-iad-04
3. Rowan Digital Infrastructure — Bauxite I/II/III
- Location: around Mountville Road & Ballenger Creek Pike, Frederick, MD 21703.
- Rowan says Bauxite I was approved as a 300 MW project; Bauxite III is on a remediated
brownfield site. - Maryland MDE says Rowan owns three parcels on the Quantum Frederick site: Bauxite I, II,
III. - Sources:
https://www.rowanfrederick.com/frederick-data-center
https://www.rowanfrederick.com/frederick-data-center-1-1
https://mde.maryland.gov/datacenters/Pages/FrederickDataCenter.aspx
4. Amazon AWS BWI campus / buildings
- Public third-party data-center databases list AWS “BWI” buildings near Mountville Rd &
Ballenger Creek Pike, under construction. - Caveat: AWS generally does not publicly list exact data-center locations, so these listings
are from public-record/third-party aggregation, not AWS confirmation. - Source:
https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/maryland/frederick/rowan-bauxite-i-building-2/
Existing Frederick / Urbana data centers
5. Social Security Administration National Support Center
- Location: Urbana, MD, south of Frederick along I‑270.
- Scale: ~300,000 sq ft facility; maintains SSA demographic/wage/benefit data.
- Sources:
https://www.govtech.com/data/Social-Security-Administration-Opens-New-Data-Center.html
https://businessfacilities.com/business-report-maryland-ssas-new-data-hub-moves-forward-in-urbana/
6. Fannie Mae Regional Data Center
- Address listed: 9107 Bennett Creek Blvd, Urbana, MD 21704
- Scale: Frederick County says 220,000 sq ft total: 60,000 sq ft data center, 90,000 sq ft
office, 70,000 sq ft MEP. - Sources:
https://discoverfrederickmd.com/171/Data-Centers
https://www.datacenter.fyi/project/us-federal-national-mortgage-association-73f4b17d
7. Xecunet Data Center
- Address: 5744-R Industry Lane, Frederick, MD 21704
- Local colocation / managed IT provider.
- Source:
https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/maryland/frederick/xecunet/ Nearby outside Frederick County
8. Recovery Point Systems — Germantown
- Address: 20441 Century Boulevard, Germantown, MD 20874
- Disaster recovery / colocation / resilience facility.
- Source:
https://marketplace.upstack.com/data-centers/recovery-point-systems-data-center-rps-germantown
9. Leesburg / Ashburn / Sterling, VA
- This is the giant nearby “Data Center Alley” region. Frederick County itself advertises proximity to Ashburn as a selling point — about 30 miles / sub-millisecond fiber.
Examples nearby:
- Leesburg / Compass Creek area
- Ashburn
- Sterling
- Loudoun County hyperscale clusters Frederick’s new sites are clearly being positioned as a Maryland extension/alternative to
Northern Virginia’s data-center corridor.
Largest concentration of datacenters on earth is in Loudoun County, Virginia, about 20 miles northwest of Washington DC (near Dulles Airport). There are 200+ already existing, at least another 100 coming. It is said that 75% of the world’s ‘internet traffic’ flows through that small area. It is most certainly a military project; we often forget that the entire internet itself was (and remains) a military project. I found a net site called DARNESTOWN has a 12-part series on the many ills and anomalies, some solidly in the esoteric realms.
Unfortunately there is a lot of ignorance surrounding the fear. A small chip from NVidia, mentioned at around 4:45 in, for example, is not going to ‘make obsolete all the datacenters’, etc. Technical accuracy is paramount for any position to be taken seriously.
Power cost in Montgomery County, Maryland (between Frederick County and Washington DC) has increased 10x in the past ten years. Residents routinely report 89% increases or more in their monthly-vs-last-year electricity bills. PEPCO and BG&E and DOMINION are the local power companies.
One Datacenter proposed for Dickerson, Maryland is admittedly gauged to consume 75% of the county’s current power — so that’s a near-doubling of power consumption of the entire county; however, this power is to be concentrated in a land area that is just 0.001% of the total county land surface, making all the ills not spread over the surface of the ‘waterbed’ (of the entire county surface) but instead a nail-point. There will be extremely dire consequences for those living along the “New Ley Lines”.
It’s strange how none of the environmental activists are saying one single thing about these data centers. Not one voice! Not one organisation!