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Project Accelerate

Lot Size: 123 acres

The rezoning application for 'Project Accelerate,' a proposed data center in Matthews, North Carolina, has been withdrawn. Developers East John Master Development and Matthews DC LLC, who were seeking to build the facility on 123 acres along East John Street, pulled the application on October 7, ahead of its scheduled consideration on October 13, 2025.

The massive project, which called for five two-story buildings, was met with fierce local opposition. Residents raised concerns about the data center's potential impact on power consumption (up to 600 megawatts), property taxes, noise pollution, and the environment. The developers stated the withdrawal would "allow additional time to explore options."

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Matthews DC LLC Sites

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Sites within 15 miles of Project Accelerate

Distance	Site	About
8.59 miles	Charlotte Colocation Center
11.18 miles	Lumen Charlotte 2
11.21 miles	TierPoint North Myers CL2	TierPoint’s Charlotte-North Myers facility is one of seven interconnected facilities in North Carolina providing Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), cloud services, managed services and more.
11.21 miles	731 East Trade - Digital Realty
11.21 miles	Digital Realty: CLT10	A 29,200 square feet purpose-built facility at 113 North Myers Street in North Carolina
11.23 miles	Digital Realty: 725 E. Trade	Digital Realty, a US operator, has purchased a 1920s office building in Charlotte, North Carolina, for $9.5 million and plans to demolish it to make way for a new data center.
11.27 miles	CENTRA: 701 E Trade	Deep Edge Realty Charlotte is centrally located at the fiber nexus of Charlotte, near the Spectrum Center and AT&T's central office.
11.37 miles	5CDC: Charlotte, NC	5C Group is developing a data center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with an ambitious plan to scale its capacity up to 1.6 gigawatts (GW) when fully built out.
11.37 miles	TAC: Charlotte, NC	Situated on a 275-acre greenfield site in Charlotte, North Carolina, the TAC I HS data center is a hyperscale project by TAC Data Centers.
11.37 miles	TAC: Charlotte Expansion
11.61 miles	Spectrum Networks: Charlotte
11.82 miles	Lumen Charlotte 3
12.41 miles	Spectrum Charlotte National Data Center
13.42 miles	Flexential Charlotte 1, 2, 3
13.52 miles	First Data Charlotte
13.55 miles	Altos Charlotte NC
13.64 miles	TierPoint Charlotte 4	• 2N power design • Each customer cabinet served by redundant A-Side/B-Side power feeds
13.64 miles	ScaleMatrix Charlotte
13.65 miles	Mapletree: 1805 Center Park
13.74 miles	NaviSite Charlotte
13.75 miles	Tier.Net Charlotte
13.80 miles	TierPoint Charlotte: Rose Lake	This facility is audited under SSAE 18 SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS*, GLBA and HIPAA standards annually and is ITAR and EU-US Privacy Shield registered.
13.81 miles	Lumen Charlotte 1
14.02 miles	Caronet 1960 Cross Beam
14.72 miles	PowerHouse: Charlotte, NC	PowerHouse Data Center Charlotte, NC, is located close to a Duke Energy substation and could see up to 2.5 million sq ft (232,260 sqm) of data center space developed.
14.76 miles	Lumos Charlotte (DC74 CLT4)	Lumos acquired the site when the company acquired DC74 Data Centers in February of 2017. The facility is located a couple of miles from the Charlotte Douglas International Airport
14.76 miles	Segra: 3101 International Airport	The site is a former XO Communications facility
14.88 miles	Lumen Charlotte 4
15.38 miles	LightHouse: CLT02
16.20 miles	H5 Charlotte
16.20 miles	Flexential Charlotte 4
19.36 miles	Ross Stores Rock Hill
19.72 miles	Digital Realty: CLT20	Digital Realty wants to rezone 156 acres to build a new data center campus, allowing for up to 3 million square feet of telecommunications and data storage space.
19.78 miles	Digital Realty: CLT21	This planned facility will be part of Digital Realty's CLT20 campus in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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