Quantum Loophole's data center dominion

It's not a data center operator or a telecom service provider. Still, Quantum Loophole could influence both kinds of companies in the Northeast corridor of the US as it continues to develop its 2,100-plus-acre data center "master-planned community" in Frederick County, Maryland.

The development is more than twice as large by acreage as New York's Central Park. In this podcast, Rich Paul-Hus, the SVP for sales and development at Quantum Loophole, discusses exactly what the company is building and its plans.

Paul-Hus details why Quantum Loophole wanted to become a development specialist for companies looking to locate their computing and connectivity resources just a few miles from the world's old-school Internet exchanges and data center hives.

He said his company's ability to quickly provision the land, water, power and fiber that hyperscalers and data center developers need could get those companies to market more quickly and in a way that doesn't wreck the environment.

Now, Quantum Loophole is constructing an over $100 million, 43-mile fiber loop that will link its campus with the sprawling data center alley in Ashburn, Virginia. Paul-Hus said the QLoop, as it's called, can hold 34 conduits with a full capacity of more than 235,000 strands of fiber. "When complete, the system is designed to connect Quantum Frederick to the Ashburn internet ecosystem in under one-half millisecond," the company said last year.

The buildout is big, and the vision is, too. According to Paul-Hus, Quantum Loophole's CEO and founder, Josh Snowhorn, is putting together a mix of tech, land, policy and resources that "will protect our customers' abilities to develop data centers over the next 20 years."