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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Maiden Data Center.
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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Maiden · Catawba County · North Carolina
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 15 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000989
What the source record says
Distinct site from the Apple Maiden campus already tracked (different operator, different parcel north of W. Maiden Rd.). No per-site capacity or investment disclosed; the $1B figure is Microsoft's county-wide 10-year commitment.
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; ~292 acres north of W. Maiden Rd. and west of Zeb Haynes Rd.
- 2026-03-02 · source-reported under construction
Construction resumed across the four Catawba County campuses after a roughly 10-month pause.
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft Plans $1 Billion Campus in North Carolina Cloud Cluster · Data Center Frontier
- Joint statement on Microsoft data center development in Catawba County · Catawba County, NC
- Microsoft restarts $1B data center in Catawba County · Go Foothills
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-maiden-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.
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