Data centers in Wake County, North Carolina
The map shows 9 data center sites in Wake County, North Carolina. The operators named are CenturyLink, American Tower, Flexential, Tierpoint and TierPoint.
Sites
- 1918 Wake Forest Rd: CenturyLink
- BB&T Data Center
- Edge data center RA1: American Tower
- Flexential Raleigh: Flexential
- iGLASS Networks
- Raleigh (Departure Drive): CenturyLink
- Raleigh-Cary: TierPoint
- Segra Data Center
- Tierpoint Raleigh Data Center: Tierpoint
Operators
- CenturyLink: 2 sites
- American Tower: 1 site
- Flexential: 1 site
- Tierpoint: 1 site
- TierPoint: 1 site
Power plants in Wake County
Wake County has 15 power plants, with 1.1 GW of capacity: nuclear 964 MW, battery storage 106 MW, solar 28 MW.
- Harris (NC): Nuclear, 964 MW
- Knightdale Battery: Battery storage, 100 MW
- NCSU Cates Cogeneration Plant: Natural gas, 9 MW
- NCSU CCUP Cogeneration Plant: Natural gas, 6 MW
- Creech Solar 2, LLC: Solar, 5 MW
- Fuquay Farm: Solar, 5 MW
- Sunfish Farm: Solar, 5 MW
- Wakefield Solar: Solar, 5 MW
- Walkers Crossroads BESS: Battery storage, 5 MW
- CBC Solar Energy Gen Fac Phase 2: Solar, 3 MW
Other large power plants within 50 km
- Phobos Solar, LLC: Solar, 79 MW, 46 km away, North Carolina
- Brantley Solar: Solar, 50 MW, 46 km away, North Carolina
- Fox Creek Solar: Solar, 50 MW, 50 km away, North Carolina
- Univ of NC Chapel Hill Cogen Facility: Coal, 32 MW, 39 km away, North Carolina
- Tracy Solar: Solar, 10 MW, 46 km away, North Carolina
- Nash 97 Solar, LLC: Solar, 5 MW, 40 km away, North Carolina
- 4Oaks: Solar, 5 MW, 47 km away, North Carolina
- Angier Farm: Solar, 5 MW, 33 km away, North Carolina
Sources
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0; USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain; Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH; the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)