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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Terra Nexus Land Fund I, LLC
- Address and locality
- 316 Old Cheraw Highway · Rockingham · Richmond County · North Carolina · 28379
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- permitted
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 15 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001446
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
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 165 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $1.2 billion
- Announced jobs
- 30 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
Provider notes
Water. Applicant redesigned the cooling system to a closed-loop recycling system; original filing estimated 75,000 gallons/day, revised so average daily use is limited to the domestic water use of about 30 occupants.
Community. Residents are split; state Rep. Ben Moss called for more public input before the council acts. City council scheduled a public hearing following the planning board recommendation.
What the source record says
Separate from the AWS Richmond County campus already tracked — different applicant, different parcel inside the City of Rockingham, and reported locally as the county's third data center project. No capacity figure has been 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
- 2026-08-04 · source-reported proposed
Rockingham planning board unanimously recommended rezoning ~165 acres at 316 Old Cheraw Highway from R-7 high-density residential to conditional light industrial for a data center; city council hearing followed on 2026-08-13.
- 2026-10-15 · source-reported permitted
Rockingham City Council voted 4-1 to approve the conditional rezoning for the Terra Nexus data center on Old Cheraw Highway (WSOC, Sept 15, 2026).
Sources and attribution
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- Rockingham Council to hold public hearing on data center rezoning · Richmond County Daily Journal
- Rockingham Planning Board Backs $1.2B Data Center Rezoning as Residents Raise Concerns · WKML 95.7
- Rockingham approves rezoning request for data center · WSOC-TV
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID terra-nexus-rockingham-richmond-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-001446
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
- 316 Old Cheraw Highway, Rockingham, NC 28379 · Richmond (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Terra Nexus Land Fund I, LLC
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported permitted
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026-08-04 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-10-15 · source-reported permitted
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 165 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: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $1.2 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 30 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover 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: 2026-10-15
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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