Lincoln County, North Carolina
Lincoln County, North Carolina has 27 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 25 operating plants totaling 2.5 GW and 2 planned projects totaling 54 MW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 2.2 GW across 17 projects.
Lincoln County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 6 of its 6 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 county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 54 MW planned across 2 projects against 2.5 GW operating.
Technology mix
27 projects, 2.6 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
25 plants operate inside Lincoln County, 2.5 GW. The queue adds 54 MW across 2 projects.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Lincoln County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas | Operating | 17 | 2,155.6 |
| Hydro | Operating | 5 | 351.8 |
| Solar | Operating | 2 | 10 |
| Solar | Planned | 1 | 40 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 1 | 14 |
| Oil | Operating | 1 | 1.8 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2028 | 2 | 54 |
Lincoln County against its neighbors
Catawba County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 855 MW. 6 of the 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catawba County | 18 | 50 | 0.37x | ||
| Mecklenburg County | 8 | 2 | 0.29x | ||
| Cleveland County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Lincoln County this page | 0 | 54 | 0x | ||
| Gaston County | 0 | 240 | 0x | ||
| Burke County | 0 | 3 | 0x | ||
| Iredell County | 0 | 10 | 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.
7 counties shownEvery record in Lincoln County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 27 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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