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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Amazon Web Services
- Address and locality
- Airport Road · Rockingham · Richmond County · North Carolina
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 24 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000161
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Duke Energy
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 800 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $10 billion
- Announced jobs
- 500 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- June 2025
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- 50% property tax reduction; 65% personal property tax relief (20-year incentive package per building, contingent on $1B investment and 50 jobs by end of 2030) · Richmond County, NC · 2025 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Sited adjacent to Duke Energy Sherwood H. Smith Jr. energy complex (2.24 GW natural gas capacity). Per Data Center Dynamics, how the data center will be powered has not been publicly revealed; Duke Energy is the regional utility but the facility's energy arrangement is unconfirmed.
Water. Energy and water usage figures were made confidential under the county's April 2025 incentive agreement for 'Project Blue Marlin' and are not publicly disclosed.
Community. Groundbreaking ceremony October 31, 2025 attended by local and state officials; described as largest single capital project in NC history
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- Cooling: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
What the source record says
Energy Way Industrial Park, Rockingham, NC. Up to 20 buildings each 200,000-225,000 sq ft at full build. No state incentives; only local county tax breaks. MW capacity not publicly disclosed. Coordinates are Rockingham city centroid. Original secondary source (richmondnc.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=168) returned HTTP 404 and was replaced with Business NC article. poweredBy field removed: DCD reports the method of powering has not been publicly confirmed.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-06 · source-reported proposed
AWS announced $10 billion investment; largest single capital project in North Carolina history
- 2025-10-31 · source-reported under construction
Official groundbreaking at Energy Way Industrial Park, Rockingham
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Amazon breaks ground on $10bn data center complex in Richmond County, North Carolina · Data Center Dynamics
- Amazon plots state record $10B data center project in Richmond County · Business North Carolina
- Inside the secretive deal for a $10 billion Amazon data center in rural NC · Cardinal & Pine (reporting by Inside Climate News)
- DEQ announces joint public hearing on Amazon data center and Duke Energy air quality permits in Richmond County · North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
- Amazon's Richmond County data center gets green light on air quality permits · WUNC
- Why one North Carolina county said yes to Amazon's $10 billion data center · WRAL
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID aws-richmond-county-nc. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000161
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Airport Road, Rockingham, NC · Richmond (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Amazon Web Services
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: June 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-06 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-10-31 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 800 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Duke Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $10 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 500 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: supported
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: 50% property tax reduction; 65% personal property tax relief (20-year incentive package per building, contingent on $1B investment and 50 jobs by end of 2030) · Richmond County, NC · 2025
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-24
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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