Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus
Hamlet, Richmond County, NCDeveloper: Amazon Web ServicesCensus GEOID 37153
- Stage
- Being built
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Land, Water
Amazon Web Services is constructing a 20 building data center campus at the Energy Way Industrial Park in Hamlet, Richmond County, North Carolina, after receiving North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality air quality permits in September 2026. It is being built; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
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Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Buildings
- 20 buildings zoning application, verified October 27, 2026
- Power it would draw
- 1 GW the developer's figure About 10 percent of New York City's summer peak demand in 2024.
- Who leads it
- Amazon Web Services as stated by the source
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Land, Water, Who would use it, Jobs once it runs, Tax each year
The math behind the comparison
- Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus, capacity: 1,000 MW.
- New York City (NYISO Zone J) summer peak demand, actual, 2024: 10,245 MW (2024).
- 1,000 ÷ 10,245 = 0.1 (MW over MW).
Sources:
- Amazon Web Services (opens in a new tab)
- NYISO, 2025 Load and Capacity Data Report (Gold Book) (opens in a new tab), Table I-4a, Baseline Summer Non-Coincident Peak Demand, Historical and Forecast, page 26, Zone J, 2024 row (2024)
A comparison is arithmetic on two published rows and is never a new fact (how comparisons are made).
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | 1 GW | the developer's figure | deq.nc.gov (opens in a new tab) | October 27, 2026 |
| How much water it would use | ||||
| How loud it would be | ||||
| Jobs once it runs | ||||
| Tax it would pay each year |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Amazon Web Services | as stated by the source | October 27, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | ||||
| How much land | ||||
| Buildings | 20 buildings | zoning application, verified October 27, 2026 | deq.nc.gov (opens in a new tab) | October 27, 2026 |
| Where its power comes from | ||||
| Grid connection | ||||
| How it is cooled |
How much power it needs, also reported: 255 MW, 2026 (WRAL (opens in a new tab): Duke proposed adding a turbine capable of generating about 255 megawatts of electricity by 2030) .
A blank value cell means not disclosed by any source on file; a blank basis cell means the source gave the figure without saying on what basis.
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water use A state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use it A lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Jobs and tax An incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
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· Status: permitting (content date)
Amazon's North Carolina data center sought and received state approval for diesel generator permits amid community pushback over the use of diesel power.
deq.nc.gov (opens in a new tab) query feed
The full Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus timeline, in order
1 correction to this record
Every correction, with its reason
Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
The site
The pin is the site. The shaded outline is the parcel, from the county's own parcel record.
- Where
- Energy Way, Hamlet, NC 28345, Hamlet, Richmond County, North Carolina [source] (opens in a new tab)
- How exactly it is located
- Exact, on the parcel
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- CyrusOne Lee County Data Center, 52 mi
- H5 Charlotte, 67 mi
- Segra Kannapolis Data Center, 67 mi
- Flexential Charlotte North (CLT4 and CLT5), 67 mi
- Digital Realty Charlotte, 68 mi
Comparisons
1 metric with more than one figure
Capacity at full buildout
2 figures, 2 sourcesShow each source's words
- 255 MW, WRAL: Duke proposed adding a turbine capable of generating about 255 megawatts of electricity by 2030
Keep going
Questions about this project
7 questions answered from the record
How big is Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus?
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The record has 2 measures of its size: 1 GW (the developer's figure, deq.nc.gov (opens in a new tab)) and 20 buildings (zoning application, verified October 27, 2026, deq.nc.gov (opens in a new tab)). Its acreage is not disclosed.
Who is building Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus?
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Amazon Web Services is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
Who will use Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus?
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Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.
How much power and water does Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus say it needs?
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Power: 1 GW (the developer's figure, deq.nc.gov (opens in a new tab)). Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus stand today?
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It is being built; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, September 1, 2026: Amazon's North Carolina data center sought and received state approval for diesel generator permits amid community pushback over the use of diesel power.
What has Hamlet or Richmond County decided about it?
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No decision by Hamlet or Richmond County about data centers is on the record. The Richmond County page and the North Carolina scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
What is still unknown about Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus?
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Not disclosed by any source on file: how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is constructing it, how much land, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.
Sources
Reporting
- North Carolina approves diesel generator permits for Amazon data center - WRAL (opens in a new tab), WRAL, September 1, 2026, local outlet
- An Amazon data center in NC wants to use diesel power. Why there’s pushback - Raleigh News & Observer (opens in a new tab), Raleigh News & Observer, August 8, 2026, local outlet
- Amazon Data Center Slated for NC Town With Devastating Industrial History - sentientmedia.org (opens in a new tab), sentientmedia.org, August 4, 2026, news outlet
3 sources on file.
About this data
Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page and under What happened. Report a correction · Send a tip about Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/amazon-data-center-nc-nc. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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For researchers
- Stage
- Being built
- Tier
- built from one source
- Tags
- Built from one source
- Coordinates
- 34.8892, -79.71061
- How the location is known
- Location from the county parcel record.
- Location source
- https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/air-quality
- Coordinate source
- NC DEQ Division of Air Quality generator permit and Richmond County Energy Way Industrial Park record
- How capacity was disclosed
- the developer's figure
- Capacity, if disclosed
- 1 GW, the developer's figure
- Published
- September 4, 2026
- Last verified
- October 27, 2026
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Location source number, Location last verified, EPA registry id, Uses, Tenancy, Cooling, How water was disclosed, How acreage was disclosed, Interconnection, Rating of the county's rows