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Clay County, North Carolina

Clay County, North Carolina has 4 power projects in the FieldProspects database, all of them operating, 15 MW in total, with nothing in the queue. No data center record lists the county. Hydro leads with 15 MW across 4 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Duke Energy CarolinasRefreshed monthly
4
power projects, planned and operating
0MW
planned generation, 0 projects
15MW
operating generation, 4 hydro projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Clay County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 2 of its 2 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Macon no data centers Clay no data centers Cherokee 117 MW
no data center MWunder 100 MW100 to 1,000 MW1,000 to 5,000 MW5,000 to 15,000 MW15,000 MW or more no page yet

Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers

Headline finding
15MW

of operating generation across 4 plants, and nothing in the interconnection queue for Clay County.

Operating generation15 MW
Planned generation0 MW

Technology mix

4 projects, 15 MW planned and operating

Hydro15 MW4 projects, 100%
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Power generation in the county

4 plants operate inside Clay County, 15 MW of hydro. Nothing is in the queue for the county.

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Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Clay County

OperatingPlanned
HydroOperating 15 MW 4 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
HydroOperating415
Operating: 15 MW. Planned: 0 MW. Nothing is in the queue to add to it.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.

Clay County against its neighbors

Cherokee County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 117 MW. 2 of the 2 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Cherokee County 1
117
168
0 0.7x
Macon County 0
0
46
0 0x
Clay County this page 0
0
15
0 0x

Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.

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Every record in Clay County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 4 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Clay County, NCStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 4 records
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