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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Energy Storage Solutions
- Address and locality
- Rocky Mount · Edgecombe County · North Carolina
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 900 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 15 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000567
What the source record says
$19.2B, 900 MW AI data-center campus on ~155 acres in Kingsboro Business Park between Rocky Mount and Tarboro, Edgecombe County. County cleared the way in Nov 2025 by amending its development ordinance; buildout planned across ~24 phases over 3-5 years. Twin campus announced for Fayetteville.
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 · reported proposed
Energy Storage Solutions announced a ~$19.2B, 900 MW AI data-center campus at Kingsboro Business Park.
- 2026 · reported permitted
Edgecombe County amended its Unified Development Ordinance to allow data-center use at Kingsboro Business Park; groundbreaking slated for Q1 2026 once final permits secured.
Sources and attribution
- County OKs amending ordinance to allow for a data center at Kingsboro Business Park (Rocky Mount Telegram) · Rocky Mount Telegram
- Developer Forges Ahead With $38B in NC Data Centers (Data Center Knowledge) · Data Center Knowledge
- AI data center boom meets rural reality in Edgecombe County · North Carolina Health News
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID energy-storage-solutions-kingsboro-edgecombe-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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