Data Center Atlas
AWS Richmond County data center campus
Under construction
United States · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
Amazon Web Services campus in rural Richmond County, North Carolina, near the South Carolina line. Announced in June 2025 at an estimated $10 billion for cloud and AI infrastructure, with at least 500 jobs. The county approved 20-year cash grants tied to property taxes, contingent on job and investment targets. Amazon broke ground in October 2025, said in July 2026 that the campus would have 21 buildings, and has applied for an air permit for backup generators. County officials said water, wastewater and fiber upgrades would come at no cost to taxpayers.
Source record as of 2026-09-23 · Details and sources
Location
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County or district reference only; the facility position is not established.
Projects (1)
AWS Richmond County data center campus
Under construction last observed as of · Reported status
Location: Richmond County, North Carolina, US. The opened sources name only Richmond County (the announcement was held in Hamlet); coordinates are the county point from its Wikipedia article (Nominatim was unavailable). ABC11 (The Associated Press); Amazon
Use: Cloud, Ai unspecified
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investment | about 10,000,000,000 USD | Announced · Campus | 2025-06-04 | ABC11 (The Associated Press); Amazon | |
| Jobs permanent | at least 500 count | Planned · Campus | 2025-06-04 | ABC11 (The Associated Press); Amazon | |
| Buildings | 21 count | Planned · Campus | 2026-07-30 | Amazon |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | Developer | ABC11 (The Associated Press); Amazon | |
| Richmond County | Government | Commissioners approved an incentive package of annual grants for 20 years linked to property taxes, contingent on job and investment thresholds. | ABC11 (The Associated Press); WITN (The Associated Press) |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-03 | Other | Actual | Richmond County commissioners approved the incentive package the day before the announcement. | ABC11 (The Associated Press); WITN (The Associated Press) |
| 2025-06-04 | Announced | Actual | ABC11 (The Associated Press); WITN (The Associated Press) | |
| 2025-10-17 | Construction started | Actual | Date of Amazon's post reporting the groundbreaking. | Amazon |
In a July 2026 update Amazon said it had applied to the North Carolina Division of Air Quality for a permit for the campus backup generators; the application date was not given.
Sources for these details
- Amazon planning $10B investment in North Carolina for data center and AI campus — ABC11 (The Associated Press); 2025-06-04
- Amazon planning $10B investment in North Carolina for data center and AI campus — WITN (The Associated Press); 2025-06-04
- Amazon plans to invest $10 billion in North Carolina to expand cloud computing infrastructure and advance AI innovation — Amazon; publication date not stated · Archived source
- Amazon data center communities: Here's what's happening near data centers across the US — Amazon; publication date not stated
- Companies
Source and location review
- Status source
- Amazon data center communities: Here's what's happening near data centers across the US evidence row
Amazon · publication date not stated · Company disclosure - Locator
- County or district reference only · Compiled location reference · admin2 evidence
- Source checks
Not reviewed against imagery not_
reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 34 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 35.00000, -79.76000
- Geometry licence
- source-terms-not-recorded
- Use scope
- County or district reference only
- Scope class
- admin2
- Authority
- Compiled location reference
- Source entity
- Project
- Method
- imported_reference_point
- Derivation
- imported_reference_point
- Precision scope
- The opened sources name only Richmond County (the announcement was held in Hamlet); coordinates are the county point from its Wikipedia article (Nominatim was unavailable).
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
- Geometry evidence
- 8e2eac72
A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon data center communities: Here's what's happening near data centers across the US Archived copy | Amazon Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Buildings, Milestone: Construction Started | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Amazon | 391e4deb3296fa339f2cfe8b591d03126fc3f9895bcb5f04debda79d09cad3c3Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Amazon planning $10B investment in North Carolina for data center and AI campus Archived copy | WITN (The Associated Press) News | Imported: Record, Milestone: Announced, Milestone: Other, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | WITN (The Associated Press) | b29c844653a0181feff52975e6e990820dcc1f7085d444be8c15683c238cc53dFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Amazon planning $10B investment in North Carolina for data center and AI campus Archived copy | ABC11 (The Associated Press) News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Milestone: Announced, Milestone: Other, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | ABC11 (The Associated Press) | a27aa72b17f0c00c53dc40be78f1f46f666eac9fd154a0ad056c3c3463a3a65cFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Amazon plans to invest $10 billion in North Carolina to expand cloud computing infrastructure and advance AI innovation Archived copy | Amazon Company disclosure | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Role: Developer | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Amazon | a2edf3ca03876a5bef67f1cbf19e40dc9ac76499c0e60c73402693afa86c257eFactual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). AWS Richmond County data center campus [site vcc-site-9b47e002ec40fe02a2d7]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-9b47e002ec40fe02a2d7/
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