Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus
Amazon Web Services is building a data center in Richmond County, North Carolina (under construction). One source reports this facility in the Kapwork Grow tracker.
- Investment
- $10B
- Site
- 800 acres
- Reported jobs
- 500
Who's on this build
Named in the cited sources. No source reports who builds it.
- Other Amazon Web Services builds
Operator
Amazon Web Services
Utility
Duke Energy
Timeline
Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred.
- Today
Under construction
Last material change Sep 24, 2026.
- 11 mo ago
Construction start
- 11 mo ago
Event date: · First observed: Not reported
- 15 mo ago
Announced
Reported updates without an event date
Reported for 2025-06.
Event date: Not reported · First observed: Not reported
Record quality
- Datasets
- 1
- Location
- Site footprint confirmed
- Summary
- From published records
- Source as of
- Last material change
Site and infrastructure
CA Compute AtlasKW Kapwork Grow tracker record
Status
- Operator
- Amazon Web Services
- Stage
- Under construction
- Facility type
- AI data center
Scale
- Reported investment
- $10B
- Site area
- 800 acres
- Reported jobs
- 500
Reported dates
- Announced
- 2025-06
- Construction start reported
- 2025-10-31Reported date — see the source for the event evidenced.
Site
- City
- Rockingham
- County
- Richmond
- State
- North Carolina
- Location precision
- Site footprint confirmed
Power and cooling
- Utility
- Duke Energy
- Power source
- Grid power
- AI workload
- Confirmed AI or machine-learning workload
Permits and public records
- Incentives reported
- 50% property tax reduction; 65% personal property tax relief (20-year incentive package per building, contingent on $1B investment and 50 jobs by end of 2030) (Richmond County, NC)
Sources, method and limits
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What each source reports
| Dataset | Reported name | Reported status | Reported MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Atlas | Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus | Under construction | Not reported |
Sources and evidence
- CACompute Atlas facility record (Kubiak, E., 2026, CC BY 4.0)As of: Aug 29, 2026 · Record: aws-richmond-county-nc
- CAData Center Dynamics (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- CABusiness North Carolina (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Jul 6, 2026
- CACardinal & Pine (reporting by Inside Climate News) (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Aug 15, 2026
- CANorth Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Aug 29, 2026
- CAWUNC (cited by Compute Atlas)As of: Aug 29, 2026
- KWKapwork Grow tracker record, merged from the sources listed here (free account)As of: Sep 23, 2026 · Record: 203739167230419
Limitations and interpretation
- This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-09-23. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
- Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
- An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
- Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.
Cite or correct this record
Kapwork Grow, “Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/amazon-web-services-richmond-county-data-center-campus-nc-dc_b94cb8b089d3, materially updated Sep 24, 2026.
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An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order. Capacity and dates are as reported by the cited sources. “Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.
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