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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Amazon Web Services
- Address and locality
- Airport Road · Rockingham · Richmond County · North Carolina
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 29 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000161
What the source record says
Energy Way Industrial Park, Rockingham, NC. Up to 20 buildings each 200,000-225,000 sq ft at full build. No state incentives; only local county tax breaks. MW capacity not publicly disclosed. Coordinates are Rockingham city centroid. Original secondary source (richmondnc.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=168) returned HTTP 404 and was replaced with Business NC article. poweredBy field removed: DCD reports the method of powering has not been publicly confirmed.
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
- 2025-06 · reported proposed
AWS announced $10 billion investment; largest single capital project in North Carolina history
- 2025-10-31 · reported under construction
Official groundbreaking at Energy Way Industrial Park, Rockingham
Sources and attribution
- Amazon breaks ground on $10bn data center complex in Richmond County, North Carolina · Data Center Dynamics
- Amazon plots state record $10B data center project in Richmond County · Business North Carolina
- Inside the secretive deal for a $10 billion Amazon data center in rural NC · Cardinal & Pine (reporting by Inside Climate News)
- DEQ announces joint public hearing on Amazon data center and Duke Energy air quality permits in Richmond County · North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
- Amazon's Richmond County data center gets green light on air quality permits · WUNC
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID aws-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.
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