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Data centers · Rowan County, North Carolina

Rowan County

1 project on record · 1 moratorium or ban action

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Projects in Rowan County
Long Ferry Road data center siteEDC Charlotte LLC (owner; managed by Edged's chief financial officer, as reported)—Site zoned or marketedApril 20, 202650 MW+

Moratoriums and bans

  1. April 20, 2026 Rowan County: Moratorium. Unanimous one-year moratorium on new data centers; it does not reach the Long Ferry Road site. (WBTV, April 20, 2026)

Updates, newest first

  1. April 20, 2026 Long Ferry Road data center site · The county's new moratorium could not cover the site under state law; the commission chair said current work is site preparation for a substation. (WBTV, April 20, 2026)
  2. April 20, 2026 Rowan County: Moratorium · Unanimous one-year moratorium on new data centers; it does not reach the Long Ferry Road site. (WBTV, April 20, 2026)
  3. March 26, 2026 Long Ferry Road data center site · Rowan County said the Long Ferry Road property had been bought by a developer evaluating it for a possible data center campus, with no end user, no county incentives and no further commissioner approvals required. (WBTV, April 20, 2026)

Statewide

G.S. 105-164.13(55a) exempts from state sales and use tax the electricity and support equipment (power, cooling, servers, networking) for a qualifying datacenter: one where the Commerce Secretary finds at least $75 million will be invested within five years and that meets a wage standard for its area and provides health insurance to its full-time employees; the older (55) exemption covers eligible internet datacenters investing $250 million in lower-tier counties. (North Carolina General Assembly, Oct. 20, 2026; North Carolina General Assembly, Oct. 20, 2026) Senate Bill 730, the Ratepayer Protection Act, was rewritten in the House to require utilities to contract with large data centers so they cover the cost of serving them; the House passed it 69-44 on June 3, 2026, and the Senate sent it to its Rules Committee on June 8 with no further action recorded. (North Carolina General Assembly, Oct. 20, 2026; Carolina Journal, June 4, 2026) Duke Energy reached a settlement in October 2026 in its rate cases (NCUC dockets E-7 Sub 1329 and E-2 Sub 1380) making an existing tariff mandatory for data centers and other customers that use large amounts of power nearly all the time, with upfront payment for dedicated facilities such as substations; it would not apply to contracts signed on or before June 1, 2026 and needs Utilities Commission approval. (WUNC / WFAE, Oct. 7, 2026; WUNC / WFAE, Oct. 14, 2026) Local moratoriums rest on G.S. 160D-107; Orange County cited it, and a Superior Court judge ruled in September 2026 that Chatham County's moratorium could not halt a project already under way. (Orange County, N.C., April 21, 2026; NC Newsline, Sept. 22, 2026) North Carolina data centers →