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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Digital Realty Moores Chapel Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Digital Realty
- Address and locality
- 12899 Moores Chapel Road · Charlotte · Mecklenburg County · North Carolina
- Official metro area
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
- Source-reported status
- permitted
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 400 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 15 August 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-000464
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 Carolinas
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 156 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- April 2025
Provider notes
Energy. Duke Energy Carolinas is the regional grid utility; the site sits near Duke's Sherwood H. Smith generation complex. No facility-specific interconnection filing was located.
Water. No cooling type or water volume is disclosed. City Council members raised water-quality concerns at the May 2025 rezoning hearing given proximity to the Catawba River; Charlotte Water is the likely provider.
Community. Charlotte City Council approved the rezoning 7–4 in May 2025 over environmental and neighborhood objections (an earlier rezoning of the same parcel drew a ~1,300-signature petition), and metro-wide data-center pushback is intensifying — a comparable Matthews project was withdrawn in Oct 2025 after opposition. The site would likely qualify for North Carolina's statewide data-center sales-and-use tax exemption (which requires $75M+ investment), but no Secretary of Commerce determination for it is in the public record.
What the source record says
12899 Moores Chapel Road, 12 miles west of downtown Charlotte. Two two-story buildings totaling 3 million sq ft across two phases. Site acquired November 2024 for $160 million. If built, would be largest data center in North Carolina. Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation to receive greenway on site. Coordinates are approximate Moores Chapel Road area.
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
- 2025-04 · source-reported proposed
Digital Moores Chapel LLC (Digital Realty subsidiary) filed rezoning request for 156 acres at 12899 Moores Chapel Road
- 2025-05 · source-reported permitted
Charlotte City Council approved rezoning 7-4; trees cleared but construction start not publicly confirmed
Sources and attribution
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- Digital Realty files to develop 400MW data center campus in Charlotte, North Carolina · Data Center Dynamics
- Charlotte Considers Rezoning for Biggest Data Center in N.C. — Government Technology · Government Technology
- Pushback Grows as Data Centers Proliferate in Charlotte Metro — Queen City Nerve · Queen City Nerve
- Data Centers Sales & Use Tax Exemptions — EDPNC · Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID digital-realty-charlotte-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-000464
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
- 12899 Moores Chapel Road, Charlotte, NC · Mecklenburg (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Digital Realty
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported permitted
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: April 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025-04 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2025-05 · source-reported permitted
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 156 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 400 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Duke Energy Carolinas
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
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-15
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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