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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Conover · Catawba County · North Carolina
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 15 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000967
What the source record says
One of four Microsoft campuses in Catawba County (Conover, Hickory, Maiden, Newton). The widely cited $1 billion figure is Microsoft's county-wide minimum investment commitment over a 10-year performance window across all four sites — it is not this site's investment. No per-site capacity has been disclosed.
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
- 2022-11 · reported proposed
Announced as one of four Microsoft data centers planned across Catawba County; the Conover site is ~219 acres north of Conover on NC Hwy 16.
- 2026-03-02 · reported under construction
Crews returned to the four Catawba County campuses after a roughly 10-month pause; commercial building permits were issued November–December 2025.
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft Plans $1 Billion Campus in North Carolina Cloud Cluster · Data Center Frontier
- Joint statement on Microsoft data center development in Catawba County · Catawba County, NC
- Microsoft restarts $1B data center in Catawba County · Go Foothills
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-conover-catawba-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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