Gaston County, North Carolina
Gaston County, North Carolina has 29 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 27 operating plants totaling 195.4 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 240 MW. No data center record lists the county. Battery Storage leads with 217 MW across 2 projects.
Gaston County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 3 of its 3 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
more planned than operating generation in Gaston County. 2 projects in the queue would add 240 MW to the 195.4 MW operating today.
Technology mix
29 projects, 435.4 MW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
27 plants operate inside Gaston County, 195.4 MW. The queue adds 240 MW across 2 projects.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Gaston County
View as table
| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Storage | Operating | 1 | 50 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 1 | 167 |
| Solar | Operating | 5 | 55.3 |
| Solar | Planned | 1 | 73 |
| Hydro | Operating | 4 | 60 |
| Oil | Operating | 14 | 25.9 |
| Landfill Gas | Operating | 3 | 4.2 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
View as table
| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 73 |
| 2027 | 1 | 167 |
Gaston County against its neighbors
Mecklenburg County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 709 MW. 3 of the 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg County | 8 | 2 | 0.29x | ||
| Cleveland County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Lincoln County | 0 | 54 | 0x | ||
| Gaston County this page | 0 | 240 | 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.
4 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
2 projects in Gaston County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Gaston County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 2 changes.
| Project | Change | Technology | MW | Previous date | New date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rows are hidden on public pages. Members see the project behind each change, its developer and the dates that moved.
Every record in Gaston County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 29 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rows are hidden on public pages. Members see every field and can export up to 1,000 rows a month on Solo, unlimited on Unlimited.
Get alerts for Gaston County
We email you when a data center or power project in Gaston County is added, changes status, signs an interconnection agreement or slips its date. One email per snapshot, only when something changed.
Open every campus, project and contact in Gaston County.
Solo is $250 a month for one user. Unlimited is $500 for your whole team. Cancel any time.