Residents grind down a 2,100-acre datacenter campus

Claim

Brookfield's Compass pulled out of a 2,100-acre Northern Virginia campus after residents and state lawmakers ground it down, raising orbital compute's relative appeal, while Stargate mutated from a joint venture into bilateral leases for capacity OpenAI no longer owns.

Reported metric: 2,100 acres

Reporting date: 2026-04-30 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to April 30, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)