Rowan Digital Infrastructure Frederick Campus (Bauxite I)
Rowan Digital Infrastructure · Adamstown, MD · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 39.265, -77.394
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Potomac Edison (FirstEnergy)
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 300 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Proposed
Rowan announced three-campus development plan at Quantum Frederick; designed as AWS Maryland availability zone host
Underlying source - Under construction
Ground broken 2024 on Bauxite I (300MW, Phase 1). Phase 2 financing: $1.24B closed February 2025, led by SMBC and MUFG; $2.2B total secured. AWS Maryland availability zone expected 2026.
Underlying source - Operational
Rowan Digital Infrastructure's own CEO blog post confirms Bauxite I at the Frederick campus was energized and turned over to its first tenant, delivering 200+MW — the campus's first phase coming online.
Underlying source
Source notes
Rowan (Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners + Birch Infrastructure JV) serves as AWS hyperscale host at Quantum Frederick. Three campuses planned on-site total; Bauxite I is Phase 1 at 300MW. 777,150 sq ft total campus footprint. Coordinates approximate for same Quantum Frederick campus area as the Aligned Data Centers record there (as of August 2026). The city is given as Adamstown per the more recent, project-specific Frederick News-Post coverage (2025-11-11, via Yahoo Finance); the 2021 Maryland Dept. of Commerce announcement had said "near Buckeystown". AWS is the confirmed tenant of Bauxite I on this former Alcoa Eastalco Works site — AWS's first Maryland data center. The record is listed as under construction. Rowan's CEO message of December 23, 2025 says the company "successfully energized and turned over" Bauxite I; Nature Forward's overview of the park, published June 26, 2026, states "As of June 2026, none of Quantum Frederick data centers are yet operational".
Served from the regional grid; the Maryland PSC approved Potomac Edison's plan to loop two existing 230 kV lines from the Doubs substation into a new switching station feeding the on-site Bauxite substation (built by Potomac Edison). County filings describe up to 92 x 2.75 MW backup generators (~253 MW, diesel or HVO).
Sources and provenance
- Rowan secures $1.2bn for Maryland data center campus build-out · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Rowan Digital Infrastructure is building AWS's Maryland availability zone at Quantum Frederick Campus · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Potomac Edison granted waiver to connect Doubs substation with Rowan data center · source retrieved 2026-07-07
- Amazon identified as tenant of Bauxite data center · source retrieved 2026-10-22
- Quantum Frederick, Frederick County, MD: Maryland Data Center Series, Pt. 3 — AWS BWI (Rowan Bauxite I): 151 acres, four buildings, 300 MW · source retrieved 2026-08-26
- Five Years In — A message from Rowan CEO Charley Daitch · source retrieved 2026-10-06
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.