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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Rural Hall Data Center (The Drox Group).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- The Drox Group
- Address and locality
- 8084 Glade Street · Rural Hall · Forsyth County · North Carolina
- Official metro area
- Winston-Salem, NC
- Source-reported status
- cancelled
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 30 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000514
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.
- Land area
- 129 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $3 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Community. Rezoning case F-1669, 129 acres across from Rural Hall Town Hall. Developer separately cited ~$80M in projected county tax revenue over 10 years.
What the source record says
Coordinates are approximate for Rural Hall, NC.
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
- 2026-06 · source-reported proposed
Winston-Salem/Forsyth Planning Board recommended denial of the rezoning (7-2, June 11, 2026); final Forsyth County Commissioners vote expected around July 30, 2026.
- 2026-07-30 · source-reported cancelled
Forsyth County Board of Commissioners denied rezoning case F-1669 (Project Iron Spur) 5-2 on July 30, 2026, ending the Drox Group's proposed Rural Hall hyperscale data center. The existing record's statusHistory had this vote as 'expected around July 30, 2026' — it has now happened and gone against the project.
Sources and attribution
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- Planning board recommends denying rezoning for proposed Rural Hall data center · WFDD
- Project Iron Spur — Rezoning Case F-1669 · Rural Hall Info
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID drox-group-rural-hall-forsyth-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-000514
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
- 8084 Glade Street, Rural Hall, NC · Forsyth (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: The Drox Group
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported cancelled
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026-06 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-07-30 · source-reported cancelled
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 129 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.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $3 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-30
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · 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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