Digital Realty Moores Chapel Data Center Campus
Digital Realty · Charlotte, NC · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- PermittedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 12899 Moores Chapel Road
- Coordinates
- 35.2422, -80.9562
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Duke Energy Carolinas
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 400 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-22
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
- Proposed
Digital Moores Chapel LLC (Digital Realty subsidiary) filed rezoning request for 156 acres at 12899 Moores Chapel Road
- Permitted
Charlotte City Council approved rezoning 7-4; trees cleared but construction start not publicly confirmed
Underlying source
Source notes
12899 Moores Chapel Road, 12 miles west of downtown Charlotte. Two two-story buildings totaling 3 million sq ft across two phases. Site acquired November 2024 for $160 million. If built, would be largest data center in North Carolina. Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation to receive greenway on site. Coordinates are approximate Moores Chapel Road area.
Duke Energy Carolinas is the regional grid utility; the site sits near Duke's Sherwood H. Smith generation complex. No facility-specific interconnection filing was located.
Sources and provenance
- Digital Realty files to develop 400MW data center campus in Charlotte, North Carolina · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Charlotte Considers Rezoning for Biggest Data Center in N.C. — Government Technology · source retrieved 2026-08-15
- Pushback Grows as Data Centers Proliferate in Charlotte Metro — Queen City Nerve · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Data Centers Sales & Use Tax Exemptions — EDPNC · source retrieved 2026-07-06
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.