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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Roxboro · Person County · North Carolina
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 26 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000999
What the source record says
1,385-acre Person County Mega Park (Woodsdale township, near Roxboro); ~$26.85M land purchase. Powered by Duke Energy per a Q4-2025 8-K; the campus's MW is in a large-load contract filed under seal (NCUC) — not publicly disclosed (omitted). Coordinates are the Roxboro / Woodsdale area centroid.
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
- 2026 · reported permitted
Microsoft bought the 1,385-acre Person County Mega Park (Woodsdale) for ~$26.85M and began permitting; powered by Duke Energy (large-load contract filed under seal)
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft buys Person County Mega Park for $27 million · Business North Carolina
- Microsoft to start permitting for 1,385-acre data center campus in North Carolina · Data Center Dynamics
- WRAL — "Microsoft hosts meeting on future Person County data center" (June 2026)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-person-county-roxboro-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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