This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Apple
- Address and locality
- Maiden · Catawba County · North Carolina
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 24 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000077
What the source record says
Apple's flagship U.S. iCloud data center on Startown Rd near Maiden, Catawba County — Apple's first company-owned data center, operational since 2010, with a large adjacent solar array. Apple's Feb 2025 newsroom names North Carolina among the states where it will 'continue expanding data center capacity' as part of its Apple Intelligence buildout. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the disclosed Startown Rd address (~183 ac per public reporting); a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.
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
- 2010 · reported operational
Operational since 2010 (Apple's first company-owned data center); NC named for continued expansion in Apple's Feb 2025 $500B newsroom release.
Sources and attribution
- Apple will spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years — names NC among states for continued data-center capacity expansion (Apple Intelligence) · Apple Newsroom
- North Carolina data center is part of Apple's $500 billion expansion plan across the US · Catawba County Economic Development Corp
- Apple's 20-megawatt solar farm near NC data center gets NCUC approval (9to5Mac)
- Solar and fuel cell farms for Apple's NC data center now completely operational (iMore)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID apple-maiden-nc. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
This exact source identifier is linked to Apple Maiden Data Center Campus. The licensed row remains a separate discovery record.