Iron Mountain campus rising at Wellington & Sudley Manor.
Steel, concrete, and conduit—another brick in the wall.
The surveillance state, under construction.

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Hornbaker Transmission Corridor. Looking West across the Microsoft Hansen Farm property. 2026.

The approaching storm is bringing the only kind of 'cloud' storage that actually matters to the earth.

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Before the GPUs.
Before the ones and zeros.
Before the incessant hum of the data center.
It begins here—
steel turning earth into infrastructure.

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Data center spotting in Prince William County, Virginia. Work on building the the corporate surveillance state is moving at a brisk pace. #datacenterspotting #datacenters #AWS

Pic2, across the street, Corscale’s Gainesville Crossing Data Campus: a 130‑acre, multi‑building hyperscale data‑center project planned for more than 2.3 million square feet and roughly 326 MW of power.
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Changes.
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If I shall die before I wake - bury me beneath a Manassas data center. It will keep my bones warm.
Background: Iron Mountain data center.
Foreground: A part of the Gaskins-Slave-Sevinson Cemetery
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Wires.
Site of new AWS Data Center construction in Manassas, VA.
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The gods have changed. They now run on diesel redundancy and fiber-optic light.
Manassas, VA.; COPT DC-19 data centers, a part of the Bethlehem Technology Park, surround the Griffin/Jackson private cemetery.
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The vampire next door. The new Jeff Bezos data center in the heart of Manassas. So new that on Google Maps it's still a stand of trees. PGW3+J6J Manassas, Virginia
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