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This is a project to build a new transmission line to Haymarket, a site of an existing AWS datacenter [1] and rumored to be a favored expansion site for more. This project would also allow AWS to designate Haymarket as the 6th Availability Zone in Virginia by separating it from its Manassas-Gainesville datacenters serviced from the 'Gainesville substation' near Wellington.

See also page 14 of this pdf [2] showing electricity transmission infrastructure for the wider area.

[1] http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2077000-iad-55-jan-14...

[2] https://www.dom.com/library/domcom/pdfs/electric-transmissio...