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Google Lenoir Data Center
Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina · All 53 Google sites · Every Google case on our tracker
Google Lenoir Data Center is an operating data center in Lenoir, North Carolina (Caldwell County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at announced 2007, a reported $1.2 billion investment.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Lenoir, Caldwell County, NC
- Coordinates
- 35.9002, -81.5469 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- $1.2 billion
- Announced
- 2007
- Utility
- Duke Energy Carolinas
- Power source
- Solar
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- 2008OperatingOperational since 2008 (announced 2007); ~$1.2B initial investment per Google's own location page. Source: Google
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of July 25, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Lenoir Data Center in Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Google was the first customer of Duke Energy's Green Source Rider program (which Google helped push Duke to create), signing a PPA for a dedicated 61 MW solar farm in Rutherford County, NC built by Rutherford Farms LLC explicitly to meet new energy demand from Google's expanded Lenoir data center.
Notes on the record
Google's flagship North Carolina data center in Lenoir, Caldwell County, announced 2007, operational since 2008, one of Google's earliest U.S. sites, expanded since. Per Google's own location page, the initial investment was ~$1.2B, with $4B+ invested in the region and state since. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the disclosed Lynhaven Dr address; a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Google Lenoir Data Center in Lenoir?
Nothing on record as of July 25, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Lenoir Data Center in Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Google Lenoir Data Center?
No lawsuit over Google Lenoir Data Center appears in the record we track as of July 25, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Google Lenoir Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Google Lenoir Data Center is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Google Lenoir Data Center, and how big is it?
Google is the operator on record. We hold 53 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Google Lenoir Data Center," updated July 25, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-lenoir-nc.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/google-lenoir-nc, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Google Lenoir, North Carolina, official location page: announced 2007, opened 2008, ~$1.2B initial / $4B+ cumulative · Google · retrieved July 19, 2026
- 2.Duke Energy, Google team up on solar power project in N.C. · retrieved July 24, 2026
- 3.Google Partners with Duke Energy to Power Data Center by a 61MW PV Plant · retrieved July 24, 2026
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