Apple Maiden Data Center (iCloud)

Facility record

Lifecycle

OperationalSource-reported lifecycle

Location precision

approximate

Address as listed

Not published

Coordinates

35.588607, -81.256686

Serving utility, source-reported

Duke Energy

Operational capacity, source-reported

Not published

Planned capacity, source-reported

Not published

Source record updated

2026-07-24

Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.

Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.

Reported lifecycle history

1. 2010Operational

   Operational since 2010 (Apple's first company-owned data center); NC named for continued expansion in Apple's Feb 2025 $500B newsroom release.

   Underlying source

Source notes

Apple's flagship U.S. iCloud data center on Startown Rd near Maiden, Catawba County — Apple's first company-owned data center, operational since 2010, with a large adjacent solar array. Apple's Feb 2025 newsroom names North Carolina among the states where it will 'continue expanding data center capacity' as part of its Apple Intelligence buildout. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the disclosed Startown Rd address (~183 ac per public reporting); a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.

Apple built roughly 50MW of dedicated clean generation to serve this campus — 40MW across two 20MW solar farms plus a ~10MW Bloom Energy fuel cell array running on landfill biogas, the largest non-utility fuel cell installation in the US at the time.

Sources and provenance

• Apple will spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years — names NC among states for continued data-center capacity expansion (Apple Intelligence) · source retrieved 2026-07-19
• North Carolina data center is part of Apple's $500 billion expansion plan across the US · source retrieved 2026-07-19
• Apple's 20-megawatt solar farm near NC data center gets NCUC approval (9to5Mac) · source retrieved 2026-07-24
• Solar and fuel cell farms for Apple's NC data center now completely operational (iMore) · source retrieved 2026-07-24

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.