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Reported geography
Source-reported location for PointOne Lower Moncure Road Data Center (Lee County).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- PointOne
- Address and locality
- 4079 Lower Moncure Road · Sanford · Lee County · North Carolina
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 90 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001124
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
- Central Electric Membership Corporation
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 428.85 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $900 million
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- June 2026
Provider notes
Energy. Central Electric Membership Corporation issued a 'will serve' letter; the application does not include on-site power generation.
Water. Developer describes a one-time 250,000-gallon fill for a closed-loop system with no discharge, served by TriRiver Water; additional water for internal plumbing only.
Community. Sanford Area Growth Alliance (SAGA), a local economic-development group, publicly endorsed the project (2026-06-08) as 'responsible data center development' and said it worked with 'other community stakeholders' to address concerns in Lee County's development ordinances -- but the same statement acknowledges 'many have expressed concerns about the impact of data centers on local communities' without naming who or detailing the objections. Using 'mixed' per the contract's guidance for friction-with-no-stated-reason. No formal public hearing record found in this source.
What the source record says
Applicant of record Jonathon Rhine; property owned by Cary-based Helix Ventures; the campus is reported to be operated by Dallas-headquartered CyrusOne. Phase 1 is roughly 56 acres and 300,000 sq ft of the 428.85-acre application, with a 90 MW IT load. About 150 residents spoke against it at a July 2026 county commissioners meeting. The $900M figure is the reported value of the Phase 1 building, not the whole 430-acre program.
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
- 2026-06-08 · source-reported proposed
Permit application under preliminary review by the Sanford–Lee County Technical Review Committee.
Sources and attribution
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- Lee County to review proposal for PointOne Data Center · Sandhills News
- Data center proposed in northern Lee County · The Rant (Sanford, NC)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID pointone-lower-moncure-road-lee-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-001124
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
- 4079 Lower Moncure Road, Sanford, NC · Lee (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: PointOne
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: June 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-06-08 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 428.85 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 90 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: Central Electric Membership Corporation
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $900 million
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-10
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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