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
- Meta
- Address and locality
- Forest City · Rutherford County · North Carolina
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 14 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000933
What the source record says
Meta (Facebook) data center on Social Circle, Forest City, Rutherford County — broke ground 2010, operational ~2012, a multi-parcel campus (parcels owned by 'Andale LLC', a Meta subsidiary confirmed via Meta's SEC 10-K Exhibit 21.1 and the Menlo Park HQ mailing address), with a third facility announced 2015. Meta reports $750M+ invested in North Carolina; the 408 Social Circle parcel alone carries $176.9M assessed building value (built, not land-bank). No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are a Rutherford County GIS parcel centroid, held approximate pending a raw-geometry re-pull; a follow-up GIS 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
- 2012 · reported operational
Broke ground 2010, operational ~2012; multi-parcel campus owned by Andale LLC (Meta subsidiary, SEC-confirmed); $750M+ NC investment.
Sources and attribution
- Meta Forest City Data Center info sheet — broke ground 2010, $750M+ invested in North Carolina · Meta Data Centers
- Rutherford County GIS parcel record (PIN 1558722267, 408 Social Circle — ANDALE LLC, Menlo Park mailing address, $176.9M assessed building value = built) · Rutherford County GIS / Assessor
- Data Center Knowledge - Study: Facebook Data Center in NC Has Massive Economic Impact (search-summary, not directly fetched)
- Meta Data Centers — Meta's Forest City Data Center info sheet (Meta's own newsroom)
- Data Center Knowledge — Facebook Plans North Carolina Data Center (2010)
- Rutherford County Economic Development Commission — Data Centers Growing in North Carolina
- North Carolina data center developers are moving hyperscale projects forward at hyperspeed · WUNC
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID meta-forest-city-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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