Durham County, North Carolina
Durham County, North Carolina has 5.4 MW of data centers on record, planned to operating, across 1 record, against 18.7 MW of generation operating inside the county. Nothing is in the interconnection queue for the county. That is 0.1% of North Carolina's data center MW.
Durham County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.
Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers
of the generation operating in the county is matched by data center MW on record: 5.4 MW of data centers against 18.7 MW of plants.
Data centers by status
1 record, 5.4 MW
The data center pipeline
1 record list a year online or expected, from 2013 to 2013. No record lists a year at or after the snapshot.
Data center MW by year online or expected
Records not cancelled, by listed year. 2026 onward is planned or under construction.
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| Year | Records | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | 5 |
Who is building in Durham
Data center developers by MW on record. Top 1 of 1.
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| Developer | Sites | MW |
|---|---|---|
| Compass Datacenters | 1 | 5 |
Power generation in the county
6 plants operate inside Durham County, 18.7 MW of solar and landfill gas. Nothing is in the queue for the county.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Durham County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar | Operating | 4 | 16.5 |
| Landfill Gas | Operating | 2 | 2.2 |
Durham County against its neighbors
Wake County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 11 MW, more than Durham County. 5 of the 5 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wake County | 2 | 56 | 0.01x | ||
| Durham County this page | 1 | 0 | 0.29x | ||
| Person County | 1 | 80 | 0x | ||
| Orange County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Granville County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Chatham County | 0 | 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.
6 counties shownEvery record in Durham County
Campus or project name, developer, status, MW, year and the developer’s contacts, for all 7 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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