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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Digital Realty
- Address and locality
- 12899 Moores Chapel Road · Charlotte · Mecklenburg County · North Carolina
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 400 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 15 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000464
What the source record says
12899 Moores Chapel Road, 12 miles west of downtown Charlotte. Two two-story buildings totaling 3 million sq ft across two phases. Site acquired November 2024 for $160 million. If built, would be largest data center in North Carolina. Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation to receive greenway on site. Coordinates are approximate Moores Chapel Road area.
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
- 2025-04 · reported proposed
Digital Moores Chapel LLC (Digital Realty subsidiary) filed rezoning request for 156 acres at 12899 Moores Chapel Road
- 2025-05 · reported permitted
Charlotte City Council approved rezoning 7-4; trees cleared but construction start not publicly confirmed
Sources and attribution
- Digital Realty files to develop 400MW data center campus in Charlotte, North Carolina · Data Center Dynamics
- Charlotte Considers Rezoning for Biggest Data Center in N.C. — Government Technology · Government Technology
- Pushback Grows as Data Centers Proliferate in Charlotte Metro — Queen City Nerve · Queen City Nerve
- Data Centers Sales & Use Tax Exemptions — EDPNC · Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID digital-realty-charlotte-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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