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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Undisclosed (rezoning applicant: Engineered Land Solutions)
- Address and locality
- Walnut Cove · Stokes County · North Carolina
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 6 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001159
What the source record says
Site on US Highway 311 and Tuttle Road near Belews Creek Coal Plant on Dan River. End operator/tenant not publicly identified; rezoning approved for unidentified operator per lawsuit. Rezoning voided April 14, 2026 after court challenge over statutory notice failures. Developer ELS plans to resubmit. Capacity and investment not disclosed. Coordinates are Walnut Cove city 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
- 2025-11 · reported proposed
Engineered Land Solutions submitted rezoning application for 1,800 acres from agricultural/farm use to heavy industrial/commercial near Dan River and Belews Creek Coal Plant
- 2026-01 · reported permitted
Stokes County Board of Commissioners approved rezoning 3-2 despite opposition from county Planning Board and residents
- 2026-03-13 · reported permitted
Lawsuit filed in Stokes County Superior Court by SCSJ and SELC seeking to invalidate rezoning
- 2026-04-14 · reported proposed
Stokes County Board of Commissioners voted to void January 12 rezoning and text amendment, citing statutory notice failures; project must restart via fully compliant new application
Sources and attribution
- NC communities push back on AI data centers – Project Delta lawsuit · NC Health News
- Walnut Cove Data Center Project Updates 2026 · Blackridge Research
- Lawsuit challenges Stokes County data-center rezoning · The Assembly NC
- Stokes County proposed data center creates backlash · Spectrum News NC
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID project-delta-walnut-cove-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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