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Reported geography
Source-reported location for WhiteFiber NC-1 AI Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- WhiteFiber (Bit Digital)
- Address and locality
- Madison · Rockingham County · North Carolina
- Official metro area
- Greensboro-High Point, NC
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 24 MW; Planned: 200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 15 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001575
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
- Grid
- Land area
- 96 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 60 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- 2025
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- North Carolina sales & use tax exemption for qualifying data centers (G.S. 105-164.13(55a)) - facility confirmed as a qualifying data center; no dollar value disclosed · North Carolina · 2025 Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. 99 MW power agreement with Duke Energy (24 MW targeted for delivery ~Sept 1, 2025), scalable to 200 MW over time.
Community. Officials welcomed the project at the June 2025 announcement (Governor, Rockingham County commissioners, Madison mayor); the site is a converted former Unifi textile plant (brownfield reuse). No documented opposition found.
What the source record says
Operator is WhiteFiber (Bit Digital's AI unit); Nscale is the 40 MW anchor tenant (10-year, ~$865M total contract value = revenue, not capex — in notes). ~1M sq ft, up to 150 kW/cabinet, 99 MW secured from Duke Energy, 200 MW eventual site potential (planned figure). $150M WhiteFiber equity. Madison is in Rockingham County, NC. Coordinates are the Madison town centroid. Property acquired for $45M (2025, from Unifi); the total buildout described as 'over $1B' is conditional on reaching 200 MW -> investmentUsd omitted. ~60 permanent jobs (~$67k avg) were pledged (Rockingham County) - a commitment, with the facility still under construction -> jobs honest-zero. Cooling type not publicly disclosed -> water honest-zero.
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
- 2025 · source-reported under construction
WhiteFiber (Bit Digital's AI unit) acquired a ~1M sq ft NC industrial property for an AI/HPC campus; Nscale signed a 10-year, 40 MW anchor colocation (~$865M TCV)
- 2026-08-15 · source-reported operational
WhiteFiber's Q2 2026 results report that NC-1 has moved from construction into customer deployment: initial capacity has been delivered, equipment startup and customer testing are underway, initial billing has commenced, and full contracted run-rate billing across the 40 MW of contracted IT load was expected during August 2026.
Sources and attribution
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- Nscale agrees $865m deal for 40MW of space at WhiteFiber data center in North Carolina · Data Center Dynamics
- Announcing NC-1: New Flagship Data Center in North Carolina · WhiteFiber
- WhiteFiber (Bit Digital's AI unit) acquires North Carolina property; confirmed qualifying data center · Bit Digital
- Rockingham County set to welcome a $1 billion AI data center · WFDD
- WhiteFiber, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results · WhiteFiber, Inc. via PR Newswire
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID whitefiber-nc1-madison-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.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001575
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): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Madison, NC · Rockingham (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: WhiteFiber (Bit Digital)
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: 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2025 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-08-15 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 96 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Operational: 24 MW; Planned: 200 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: Duke Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 60 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: North Carolina sales & use tax exemption for qualifying data centers (G.S. 105-164.13(55a)) - facility confirmed as a qualifying data center; no dollar value disclosed · North Carolina · 2025
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: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · 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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