Amazon has dropped its plan to build data centers on a former George Washington University campus in Loudoun County, Virginia, according to WTOP and Fortune. Instead, it will give 25 acres of the land to the county, the outlets reported. The land is worth about $65 million, they said.

The county plans to use the land for a community arts center and an indoor sports center, WTOP and Fortune reported. Amazon will also give $5 million to the county's housing fund, WTOP and Loudoun Now reported.

Amazon will withdraw its site plan and drop legal action to build on the land, Fortune and Loudoun Now reported. The plan called for four two-story data center buildings totaling more than 800,000 square feet, Fortune said.

The county will speed up a rezoning so the rest of the land can hold homes and other uses, Loudoun Now reported. Data centers will not be allowed, Board of Supervisors Chair Phyllis Randall said, according to Loudoun Now.

"My goal was to disallow data centers or infrastructure that could support data centers on this property," Randall said, according to Fortune and Loudoun Now. She called the deal "Project Potomac Promise," Fortune reported.

Randall said the rezoning would take about a year, even on a fast track, Fortune reported. She said the county would hold public meetings to hear from residents first.

Amazon paid $427 million for the campus, WTOP, Fortune and Loudoun Now reported. Loudoun County is part of Virginia's "data center alley," which has more data centers than anywhere else in the world, Fortune reported.

Data centers brought in about $1.2 billion in property tax revenue for the county in fiscal 2026, Fortune said. That was about 39% of the county's total, it reported.

What we know: Amazon will not build data centers on the site and will donate 25 acres.
What we don't: What the rest of the land will become after rezoning.