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North Carolina counties: power projects and data centers

North Carolina has 87 county pages on FieldProspects, one for every county with at least three power projects. Across the state, 81 planned projects add up to 6.4 GW and 1,232 operating projects to 40 GW. 65 data center records list North Carolina, 4.5 GW planned to operating, led by Richmond County with 1.3 GW.

Data as of Refreshed monthly
87
county pages, three or more projects each
6.4GW
planned generation, 81 projects
40GW
operating generation, 1,232 projects
65
data center records, not cancelled
4.5GW
of data centers, planned to operating
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Data center MW by county in North Carolina

Counties with a page are shaded by the MW of data centers on record, planned to operating. Click a county to open its page.

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Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, October 8, 2026 snapshot. Hover a county for its numbers

Every county page in North Carolina

Projects, generation and data center records for each county with a page. Counties with fewer than three projects are in the member database only.

County Projects Planned generation MW Operating generation MW Data center records Data center MW
Alamance County 11 35 33 0 0
Alexander County 3 0 11 0 0
Anson County 25 0 576 0 0
Beaufort County 11 0 197 0 0
Bertie County 12 444 45 0 0
Bladen County 36 80 372 0 0
Brunswick County 8 0 2,071 0 0
Buncombe County 16 57 1,033 0 0
Burke County 12 3 49 0 0
Cabarrus County 8 0 128 0 0
Caldwell County 6 0 40 4 350
Camden County 4 0 35 0 0
Caswell County 4 0 18 0 0
Catawba County 21 50 2,328 18 855
Chatham County 12 0 42 0 0
Cherokee County 5 0 168 1 117
Chowan County 7 0 211 0 0
Clay County 4 0 15 0 0
Cleveland County 38 0 2,983 0 0
Columbus County 21 25 166 0 0
Craven County 29 0 137 0 0
Cumberland County 28 0 455 0 0
Currituck County 10 389 262 0 0
Dare County 5 0 15 0 0
Davidson County 16 135 54 0 0
Davie County 10 60 53 0 0
Duplin County 50 123 195 0 0
Durham County 6 0 19 1 5
Edgecombe County 15 400 284 1 900
Forsyth County 7 0 21 1 0
Franklin County 14 0 136 0 0
Gaston County 29 240 195 0 0
Gates County 3 0 15 0 0
Graham County 7 0 185 0 0
Granville County 9 0 43 0 0
Greene County 10 0 27 0 0
Guilford County 18 40 44 2 30
Halifax County 33 406 850 0 0
Harnett County 13 0 57 0 0
Haywood County 4 0 110 0 0
Henderson County 5 0 12 0 0
Hertford County 24 234 223 0 0
Hoke County 6 40 35 0 0
Hyde County 4 0 9 0 0
Iredell County 10 10 43 0 0
Jackson County 5 0 51 0 0
Johnston County 32 73 112 0 0
Jones County 14 224 121 0 0
Lee County 9 0 39 0 0
Lenoir County 18 0 165 0 0
Lincoln County 27 54 2,519 0 0
Macon County 4 0 46 0 0
Madison County 10 0 13 0 0
Martin County 18 21 216 0 0
Mecklenburg County 9 2 2,456 8 709
Montgomery County 23 0 261 0 0
Moore County 20 0 49 0 0
Nash County 32 0 379 0 0
New Hanover County 7 0 854 0 0
Northampton County 17 0 363 0 0
Onslow County 9 0 46 0 0
Orange County 7 0 50 0 0
Pasquotank County 5 12 43 0 0
Pender County 9 0 137 0 0
Perquimans County 9 0 259 0 0
Person County 13 80 3,344 1 0
Pitt County 20 80 48 0 0
Randolph County 21 0 71 0 0
Richmond County 31 0 2,682 20 1,300
Robeson County 52 108 419 0 0
Rockingham County 20 0 1,719 1 99
Rowan County 22 0 1,943 1 0
Rutherford County 14 60 127 3 105
Sampson County 15 0 50 0 0
Scotland County 18 160 149 0 0
Stanly County 15 0 282 0 0
Stokes County 7 35 2,555 1 0
Surry County 8 0 92 0 0
Swain County 3 0 255 0 0
Union County 9 12 107 0 0
Vance County 13 0 108 0 0
Wake County 22 56 1,108 2 11
Warren County 13 160 154 0 0
Washington County 12 1,899 150 0 0
Wayne County 42 80 2,181 0 0
Wilson County 16 20 131 0 0
Yadkin County 8 0 103 0 0

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