AAA-0124 · Archive record
Amazon Data Center Ashburn #1
21263 Smith Switch Rd, Ashburn, VA 20147
A digital archive object associated with Amazon Data Center Ashburn #1.
Source description / title
Amazon Data Center Ashburn #1
Amazon Data Center Ashburn #1 — PropyKeys ERC-721 digital asset associated with 21263 Smith Switch Rd, Ashburn, VA 20147
Archive summary
An onchain digital twin associated with 21263 Smith Switch Rd, Ashburn, VA 20147.
Archive significance
Filed in AI, Hyperscale Compute & Data Centers within the Technology, AI & Compute collection, with the archive tags AI / Compute.
Original authored description
DIGITAL ASSET DESCRIPTION The RWA tied to 21263 Smith Switch Road, Ashburn, Virginia represents ownership exposure to infrastructure associated with Amazon Web Services and one of the most important technological shifts of the modern era: the abstraction of computing. Before cloud infrastructure, organizations were forced to understand and manage the physical systems supporting their digital operations. Servers had to be purchased, installed, maintained, secured, upgraded, and replaced. Computing remained visible because organizations were directly responsible for it. AWS changed that relationship. Computing became invisible. Developers could build applications without owning servers. Businesses could scale globally without constructing infrastructure. Startups could launch products without building data centers. The underlying machinery disappeared behind a simple interface. What makes this asset different from ordinary real estate is that it supports infrastructure designed to hide complexity from the people using it. The facility helps transform physical hardware into an invisible service consumed by millions of organizations around the world. The blockchain connection is significant. Blockchain makes ownership transparent. AWS made infrastructure invisible. One exposes underlying records. The other conceals underlying complexity. Together they represent two powerful but opposite forces shaping the digital economy. The true RWA use case is the ability to permanently connect blockchain ownership records to infrastructure supporting the abstraction layer of the modern internet. Without facilities such as Ashburn, much of the digital world people interact with daily would remain far more difficult, expensive, and inaccessible. As a blockchain-based real-world asset, 21263 Smith Switch Road represents verifiable exposure to infrastructure supporting a world where access to computing no longer requires ownership of computing itself.
Catalog placement
- Primary world
- Technology, AI & Compute
- Primary group
- AI, Hyperscale Compute & Data Centers
- Geography
- Virginia
- Archive revision
- 2026-08-20
- Archive flags
- Cataloged record
Layer 01 — Source Record
- Token ID
- 308402
- Network
- Base
- Standard
- ERC-721
- Contract
- 0xa239b9b3e00637f29f6c7c416ac95127290b950e
- Canonical Record Fingerprint
- Chain ID: 8453 (Base Mainnet)
Record Hash (SHA-256): 97000dd9687e2366e7d8fc7371eddf4e776325a5b952248968ee75d2c7c83714
Layer 02 — Archive Reading · Source Trail
This record is drawn from the complete inventory and the curatorial catalog.
- Source title
- Amazon Data Center Ashburn #1
- Source artifacts
- AAA-INV-2026-v1.0 · Canonical Token & Address Inventory Ledger (566 Records) · Complete Inventory · AAA-CAT-2026-v1.0 · Primary Group Taxonomy & Curatorial Classification Registry (36 Groups) · Curatorial Catalog · AAA-DESC-2026-v1.0 · Systemic Significance & Portfolio Crosswalk Compendium · RWA Description
- Onchain reference
- Base · ERC-721 · Token 308402
This record is the mirrored digital twin onchain associated with 21263 Smith Switch Rd, Ashburn, VA 20147.
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