A data center in Ashburn, Virginia, was on fire Friday morning, NBC reports. The center, which is under construction, was being built for Amazon by a third-party contractor, but the fire didn't affect operations.

Thick smoke could be seen coming from the building, according to Carolina's Fire Page, an emergency-notification network:

—CAROLINAS FIRE PAGE (@CFPalerts) January 9, 2015



Firefighters were called to the scene just before 11:00 a.m. on Friday, and the fire, which began on the building's roof, is now under control, Washington's Top News reports. No one was injured in the blaze.

Corporate Office Properties Trust announced plans to develop two data centers in Ashburn in 2013, with Amazon as the main tenant. COPT confirmed to Business Insider that it owned the building, but said the fire would have "little to no impact" on its development progress.

An Amazon Web Services spokeswoman confirmed that the data center is being built for Amazon, but said services won't be affected.

"We can confirm that a facility in Northern Virginia that is in the early stages of construction for AWS by a third party, caught fire early this morning," she said in an email. "Thanks to the rapid response from the local fire officials it was quickly extinguished. There were no injuries. It was not a production facility and caused no impact or risk of impact to operations."

Here are some photos from the scene:







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