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DataCentersExposed
County data-center profile

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

DataCentersExposed tracks 7 AI data centers in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina — 3 operating and 1 in the pipeline, drawing 406 MW of reported power demand, led by Flexential Corp.. Its transparent data-center risk score is 0/100.

Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard

Facilities
7
Operating
3
Pipeline
1

Reporting by · Updated May 29, 2026

Risk breakdown
9Low
  • Project exposure · 16
  • Power demand · 0
  • Water draw · n/a
  • Land footprint · n/a
Overview

What's happening in Mecklenburg County

Facilities here with disclosed capacity draw 406 MW from the local grid. Data-center load on this scale is the single biggest driver of recent capacity-market price increases — costs that flow through to every ratepayer in the service territory, not just the operators.

Flexential Corp. has the largest presence in Mecklenburg County. We resolve project codenames and shell LLCs back to the corporate parent wherever the public record allows, so the table below names who is actually behind each site.

Below: every tracked facility in the county, the active state legislation that names it or its county, and local news. Commissioner vote records arrive in a later release; the placeholders show where that accountability data will land.

7 facilities

Every tracked facility

FacilityOperatorStatusMW
Digital Reality Charlotte Data Center
Charlotte
Proposed400
Flexential Charlotte - North
Charlotte
Flexential Corp.Operating3.3
TierPoint - Charlotte Data CenterTierPoint, LLCOperating2.2
Flexential Charlotte - South
Charlotte
Flexential Corp.Operating
Project Accelerate
Matthews
Withdrawn
Segra
Charlotte
Mapped (unverified)
Spectrum Charlotte National Data Center
Charlotte
Mapped (unverified)
Accountability

County commissioners

How the Mecklenburg County board votes on each data-center matter — the rezonings, the abatements, the water permits — is built from public-meeting minutes and roll-call records. Know of a vote we should be tracking? Tell us.

Methodology & sources

The risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%). Water and land are not yet measured for our facilities, so those arcs render as "not yet measured" and the weights are renormalized over the factors we can source today — when the data lands, the score updates.

Every row carries a confidence level (high / medium / low) and a source URL. Spot an error? Tell us.