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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Meta Forest City Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Meta
- Address and locality
- Forest City · Rutherford County · North Carolina
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 15 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000933
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
- Solar
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 150 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $750 million
- Announced jobs
- 275 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- 2010
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Rutherford County investment-goals incentive grant · Rutherford County, NC · 2010 · $11.4 million (as stated) Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Multiple independent outlets describe the Forest City data center as running on 100% renewable solar energy backed by five separate NC solar PPAs arranged through Duke Energy, consistent with Meta's site-specific procurement pattern at its other campuses.
Water. Consumed about 4 million gallons of water in 2024, per WUNC. Forest City's town manager said officials 'were shocked at how little water they used.'
Community. Forest City Town Manager Janet Mason described Meta as 'an excellent neighbor,' citing supplies and volunteer help distributed after Hurricane Helene, and noted the facility brought few of the negatives associated with data centers.
What the source record says
Meta (Facebook) data center on Social Circle, Forest City, Rutherford County — broke ground 2010, operational ~2012, a multi-parcel campus (parcels owned by 'Andale LLC', a Meta subsidiary confirmed via Meta's SEC 10-K Exhibit 21.1 and the Menlo Park HQ mailing address), with a third facility announced 2015. Meta reports $750M+ invested in North Carolina; the 408 Social Circle parcel alone carries $176.9M assessed building value (built, not land-bank). No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are a Rutherford County GIS parcel centroid, held approximate pending a raw-geometry re-pull; a follow-up GIS pass could upgrade precision to exact.
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
- 2012 · source-reported operational
Broke ground 2010, operational ~2012; multi-parcel campus owned by Andale LLC (Meta subsidiary, SEC-confirmed); $750M+ NC investment.
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.
- Meta Forest City Data Center info sheet — broke ground 2010, $750M+ invested in North Carolina · Meta Data Centers
- Rutherford County GIS parcel record (PIN 1558722267, 408 Social Circle — ANDALE LLC, Menlo Park mailing address, $176.9M assessed building value = built) · Rutherford County GIS / Assessor
- Data Center Knowledge - Study: Facebook Data Center in NC Has Massive Economic Impact (search-summary, not directly fetched)
- Meta Data Centers — Meta's Forest City Data Center info sheet (Meta's own newsroom)
- Data Center Knowledge — Facebook Plans North Carolina Data Center (2010)
- Rutherford County Economic Development Commission — Data Centers Growing in North Carolina
- North Carolina data center developers are moving hyperscale projects forward at hyperspeed · WUNC
- Developers are moving NC data center projects forward at hyperspeed · WFAE/WUNC via VPM
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID meta-forest-city-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.
Operator’s own listing
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- Name as listed
- Forest City
- Address as published
- Forest City, NC
Lifecycle status is not published for this listing.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000933
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
- Forest City, NC · Rutherford (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Meta
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2010
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2012 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 150 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: Solar
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: $750 million
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 275 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: Rutherford County investment-goals incentive grant · Rutherford County, NC · 2010 · $11.4 million (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-15
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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