Compass and QTS Abandon $100B Digital Gateway Data Center Campus After 5-Year Prince William Revolt

Bloomberg's Sept 2 feature (confirmed via Propmodo's independent coverage) details how Brookfield-backed Compass Datacenters and Blackstone's QTS walked away from the 2,100-acre, 37-building, 3.5-gigawatt Digital Gateway campus next to Manassas National Battlefield after a Virginia state court invalidated the county's zoning approvals over improper public-notice spacing. Compass withdrew in April, QTS in July; developers had assembled over 1,600 acres at prices reaching $1M/acre. The withdrawal is being framed as a template for the data-center backlash movement organizing across US suburbs.