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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Hickory · 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-000983
What the source record says
Coordinates are a Hickory city-level approximation — the sources describe the parcel only as ~160 acres west of US 321 adjacent to Hickory Lincolnton Hwy. No per-site capacity or investment 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 part of Microsoft's four-site Catawba County plan; ~160 acres west of US 321 adjacent to Hickory Lincolnton Hwy (a smaller ~16-acre Tate Blvd parcel was also identified).
- 2026-03-02 · reported under construction
Construction resumed across the Catawba County campuses after a roughly 10-month pause.
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft Plans $1 Billion Campus in North Carolina Cloud Cluster · Data Center Frontier
- City Releases Joint Press Statement on Microsoft · City of Conover, 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-hickory-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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