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Microsoft: Lyle Creek Campus

Short Code: Project Agate
Year Planned: 2027
Lot Size: 219 acres

The Conover site will be located on approximately 219 acres north of Conover on NC Hwy 16. This location includes the multi-jurisdictional NCDataCampus site, which has long been planned as a potential location for multiple technology facilities.

  • Update: The data center project may face delays due to Microsoft's recent slowdown in construction.

Microsoft is constructing the Lyle Creek data center campus in North Carolina starting March 2024. The data center construction site is located in Conover on Highway 16, Catawba County, North Carolina.

  • The site encompasses 220 acres. Known as Project Agate, the campus could span up to five buildings at full build-out.

Microsoft plans to construct construct five (5) single-story data center buildings along with associated infrastructure and amenities. The proposed project would provide 488 Megawatts (MW) of data storage and would include five 48-(MW) data center buildings

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Apple is investing $175 million to expand its existing data center in Maiden. Permits indicate the project will add a 237,600 square-foot facility on land already owned by the company.
10.31 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
This data center is part of Apple's Maiden Campus in North Carolina.
10.44 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
This approximately 240,000-square-foot data center is part of Apple's Maiden Campus.
10.57 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
Apple's North Carolina data center campus spans 183 acres and consists of four buildings totaling approximately 1 million square feet.
10.60 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
This approximately 240,000-square-foot data center is part of Apple's Maiden Campus.
10.70 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
This small, 21,030 square foot “tactical” data center is a part of Apple's Maiden Data Center Campus.
13.33 miles Compass: Statesville 4
This facility is part of Compass Data Centers' Statesville Campus in North Carolina.
13.39 miles Compass: Statesville 3
This facility is part of Compass Data Centers' Statesville Campus in North Carolina.
13.43 miles Compass: Statesville 5
This facility is part of Compass Data Centers' Statesville Campus in North Carolina.
13.44 miles Compass: Statesville 2
This facility is part of Compass Data Centers' Statesville Campus in North Carolina.
13.49 miles Compass: Statesville, NC
The Statesville City Council unanimously approved the rezoning request for the Compass Datacenters project on 330 acres of land near Stamey Farm Road.
18.07 miles Edged Energy: Charlotte CLT01
Edged Energy intends to construct a data center in Charlotte, with operations expected to begin in Q1 2028.

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Conover campus site plan
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State of Azure Locations as of July 2019
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Conceptual Azure Regions and Availability Zones diagram
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Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.

Azure Regions

An Azure region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.

With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 46 regions around the world, with plans announced for 8 additional regions.

Geographies

An Azure geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.

Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.

Availability Zones

Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.

Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.

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