Compute Formation Index

Northern Virginia

Name: LOADSTAR Compute Formation Index — Northern Virginia
Creator: LOADSTAR
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Virginia, US · updated Aug 29, 2026

80 /100 · forming

Northern Virginia is forming: the drivers over the last 90 days are data center construction (26), announced investment (13), substation (10). Interconnection queue of 2,662 MW. Active players: Amazon, Bezos Expeditions, Bloom Energy.

Named entities are context from public signals, not the subject of this score.

Interconnection queue OPERATOR DATA	2,662 MW
Active requests OPERATOR DATA	14
Trend DERIVED	– stable
Signals (30d) DERIVED	28
Known data centers PUBLIC RECORDS	300

operator data = the ISO/RTO’s own published queue, read by our pipeline (reading rules) · derived = computed by our published method from those reads · public records = filings, permits and public geographic registries. Nothing here is typed by hand.

CFI = formation 0.952 · energy 0.677 · momentum 0.583 · corroboration 1.0. Today's signal, open methodology — no promise of a future hit.

Materialization checklist — 3/5 corroborated

Land secured	✓ corroborated
Power solution	✓ corroborated
Permit approved	— not corroborated
Equipment ordered	— not corroborated
Vertical construction	✓ corroborated

Five of the six prerequisites the industry recognizes for a real project (our proxy for the SemiAnalysis checklist), inferred from our detected public signals — not from SemiAnalysis directly. The sixth (a signed interconnection agreement for the load itself) is not shown: no public record we read discloses it per project. “Not corroborated” means our reading has not found the signal: a coverage gap, not evidence of absence.

Real or phantom — what we can measure here

What follows is the generation & storage interconnection queue for this region: supply-side evidence. It is not a count of data-center load requests, and it is not a verdict on this region. Co-located hybrids can appear as more than one request.

At least 14% of the 2,662 MW in the queue requests we can place in this region shows an executed interconnection agreement or a post-agreement status (under construction, in service). This is a floor. Not every ISO publishes the tier, and unpublished counts as unknown, never as zero.
Our readiness-signal proxy finds evidence for 2 of 3 tracked checks (land secured · permit approved · power solution) in this region. The signals counted are disclosed in the methodology. Evidence-presence from our sources; absence is a coverage gap, not a verdict.

Declared coverage: most ISOs do not publish data-center load requests, so absence of signal here is a coverage gap, not evidence of phantom. The national reality gap is derived step by step at /verify. The sealed calls that test our reads resolve starting 15 December 2026 in the Index Journal.

🔒 This call is sealed in the ledger (#6af659060223) — recompute it ↗: we recompute the sha256 of the frozen fields and show you it matches.

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LOADSTAR Compute Formation Index — Northern Virginia: 80/100 (forming), as of Aug 29, 2026. index.loadstar.energy/r/northern-virginia

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