T5@Charlotte campus
T5's roughly 300-acre park in Kings Mountain holds several operating data centers and has three unbuilt build-to-suit pads marketed by the company. Also known as: T5@Kings Mountain, Kings Mountain Data Center Park.
Who is behind it
The record, newest first
T5's marketing sheet showed four existing operations, a 215,000-square-foot operating building, a 43,000-square-foot shell that could grow to 64,000, and pads of 23, 17 and 14 acres. (T5 Data Centers, 2020; datacenterHawk, undated)
T5 said the state approved sales and use tax exemptions for that project, based on a cumulative $75 million investment over five years. (T5 Data Centers (GlobeNewswire), March 2, 2016)
T5 said it broke ground on a build-to-suit data center for an unnamed Fortune 50 customer. (T5 Data Centers (Marketwired, via MarketScreener), Jan. 6, 2016)
T5 said Kings Mountain had agreed to annex the rest of its land and offer 30 years of property tax rebates, and that an unnamed global financial company had signed a 10-year lease. (T5 Data Centers, Oct. 1, 2013)
Conflicts and open questions
- Acreage is 280 (T5, 2013) or 300 (T5, about 2020); 300 is shown.
- Campus predates 2024 and is kept under the operating-site rule. T5@Charlotte II is one building at the same address, listed as commissioned at 150,000 square feet by a directory; it is not a separate campus.
- County comes from a Census geocode of the street address; Kings Mountain spans Cleveland and Gaston counties.
- No record shows any of the pads under construction; they should not be read as a pending project.
The full record
- Status note
- Latest operator document dates to about 2020 (from its file name); no newer public record of expansion was found.
- Power note
- T5 describes an on-site 180 MW Duke Energy substation and pad sites providing more than 150 MW of available power. Those are supply figures, not campus demand, so no MW is shown.
- Evidence
- Primary public records
- Size class
- 50 MW or more (tracker scope)