UPDATE Quantum Loophole, based in Austin, TX, last week broke ground on critical infrastructure supporting its new Quantum Frederick site in Maryland, as BusinessWire reported. The initial scope of development includes what the company refers to as “city-scale infrastructure.” This infrastructure comprises power distribution and underground power ducts, water and sewer pump stations and piping, underground fiber distribution ducts, roads and entryways, and a variety of environmental projects to maintain and distribute mature tree growth throughout the property.
The company bills the Quantum Frederick campus as its first-of-its-kind Gigawatt-scale, master-planned data center community with city-scale infrastructure for hyperscale, colocation, and purpose-built data center developers. The more than 2,100-acre, master-planned site in central Maryland sits just 20 milliseconds from the massive, but constrained, Ashburn, VA data center ecosystem. Connectivity between Frederick and Ashburn will be enabled by the company’s QLoop network that will be one of the most robust conduit systems to ever be constructed, able to hold more than 200,000 strands of fiber.
“We really are building something special here, for the industry and for the community,” remarked Josh Snowhorn, Quantum Loophole Founder and CEO. “It’s exciting to see the team’s vision for sustainable and predictable data center deployments at unheard of scale becoming reality. None of this would be possible without the interest and support of the State of Maryland and of Frederick County.”
The first data center operators to locate in Quantum Frederick are able to take full advantage of state incentives for digital infrastructure investment. At the same time, they can leverage critical sustainability innovations like clean power, reclaimed water, and dig-once fiber deployments enabled by Quantum Loophole’s unique approach, at scale. In May, Aligned Data Centers of Plano, TX signed an agreement to be the first data center operator to locate on the Quantum Frederick campus.
The Quantum Frederick infrastructure buildout includes two network centers that speed data center interconnections with multiple fiber transport networks coming into the site. The network centers will feature automated robotic cross connects powered by Telescent. As a result, cross connects will be delivered in minutes without technical staff executing the interconnections, thereby reducing the need for expensive truck rolls.
Quantum Loophole is revamping the overall site selection process for hyperscale and mass-scale data center developments. Quantum Frederick, as the company’s first project, provides the digital infrastructure industry a comprehensive 10- to 20-year road map that includes land, power, water, and fiber network infrastructure.
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