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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Hickory Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Hickory · Catawba County · North Carolina
- Official metro area
- Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- 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-000983
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.
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 160 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced
- November 2022
Provider notes
Water. Catawba County and the City of Hickory state the Microsoft facilities are expected to rely primarily on less water-intensive cooling methods, and project roughly 1% of Hickory's daily water production capacity once fully operational (figure covers the county-wide Microsoft development, not this site alone).
What the source record says
Coordinates are a Hickory city-level approximation — the sources describe the parcel only as ~160 acres west of US 321 adjacent to Hickory Lincolnton Hwy. No per-site capacity or investment disclosed.
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
- 2022-11 · source-reported proposed
Announced as part of Microsoft's four-site Catawba County plan; ~160 acres west of US 321 adjacent to Hickory Lincolnton Hwy (a smaller ~16-acre Tate Blvd parcel was also identified).
- 2026-03-02 · source-reported under construction
Construction resumed across the Catawba County campuses after a roughly 10-month pause.
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.
- Microsoft Plans $1 Billion Campus in North Carolina Cloud Cluster · Data Center Frontier
- City Releases Joint Press Statement on Microsoft · City of Conover, NC
- Microsoft restarts $1B data center in Catawba County · Go Foothills
- Joint Statement on Microsoft Data Center Development in Catawba County · Catawba County
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-hickory-catawba-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-000983
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.
Location and precision
- Hickory, NC · Catawba (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
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: November 2022
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2022-11 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-03-02 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 160 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.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
Provider label: unknown.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-15
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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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