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Cleveland County, North Carolina

Cleveland County, North Carolina has 38 power projects in the FieldProspects database, all of them operating, 3 GW in total, with nothing in the queue. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 2.8 GW across 8 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Duke Energy CarolinasRefreshed monthly
38
power projects, planned and operating
0MW
planned generation, 0 projects
3GW
operating generation, 38 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Cleveland County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 4 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Cleveland no data centers Lincoln no data centers Rutherford 105 MW Burke no data centers Gaston no data centers
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
3GW

of operating generation across 38 plants, and nothing in the interconnection queue for Cleveland County.

Operating generation3 GW
Planned generation0 MW

Technology mix

38 projects, 3 GW planned and operating

Natural Gas2.8 GW8 projects, 94%
Solar166.1 MW25 projects, 6%
Oil6 MW5 projects, 0%
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Power generation in the county

38 plants operate inside Cleveland County, 3 GW. Nothing is in the queue for the county.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Cleveland County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 2.8 GW 8 projects
SolarOperating 166.1 MW 25 projects
OilOperating 6 MW 5 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating82,810.4
SolarOperating25166.1
OilOperating56
Operating: 3 GW. 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.

Cleveland County against its neighbors

Rutherford County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 105 MW. 4 of the 4 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Rutherford County 3
105
127
60 0.83x
Cleveland County this page 0
0
2,983
0 0x
Lincoln County 0
0
2,519
54 0x
Gaston County 0
0
195
240 0x
Burke County 0
0
49
3 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 Cleveland County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 38 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Cleveland County, NCStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 38 records
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