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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Deep River Data AI Data Center (Cumnock, Lee County).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Deep River Data
- Address and locality
- Cumnock · Lee County · North Carolina
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 29 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000443
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.
- Power source
- On-site gas
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- September 2025
Provider notes
Energy. Company proposes to power the site with methane produced on-site from Butler Well No. 3, a 1998 vertical well drilled to 2,655 feet in the Triassic Basin; it would be the first commercial gas well in that basin if approved.
What the source record says
Deep River Data is majority-managed by HM Tech, which runs an existing bitcoin mining and ASIC repair facility in Graham, NC. The company says the North Carolina site would serve AI workloads rather than crypto mining. As of the reporting cited, the project is pre-feasibility: nothing has been approved, permitted or built, and no capacity figure has been published. Site is south of U.S. 421 near the Lee–Chatham county line; coordinates are the Cumnock community, not a parcel.
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
- 2026-02-03 · source-reported proposed
Company's continued contact with the state geologist confirmed at the NC Oil & Gas Commission meeting; application still being prepared.
Sources and attribution
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- Natural Gas To Power AI May Be Coming To North Carolina · The Assembly
- Lee County: No Fracking Data Center · Clean Water for North Carolina
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID deep-river-data-cumnock-lee-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000443
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): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Cumnock, NC · Lee (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Deep River Data
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: September 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-02-03 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Power source: On-site gas
Provider label.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-29
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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