Data Center Registry
Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County)
Rowan County, North Carolina
Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County) is a proposed data center in North Carolina (Rowan County), operated by Undisclosed developer. The public record puts it at 400 acres. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Undisclosed developer
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Long Ferry Road, Rowan County, NC
- Coordinates
- 35.6944, -80.3974 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 400 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- 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
- Opposed
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
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.
- April 21, 2026Proposed400-acre Long Ferry Road development identified as an active data center project exempt from Rowan County's newly approved one-year moratorium. Source: Salisbury Post
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County) in Rowan County, North Carolina is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. More than 100 residents spoke in support of a county-wide data center moratorium, driven largely by this project.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.
More than 100 residents spoke in support of a county-wide data center moratorium, driven largely by this project. Rowan County commissioners approved a one-year moratorium, but state law exempts active developments, so it does not apply to the Long Ferry site.
Notes on the record
Developer and end user are not named in the reporting; the parcel was rezoned in fall 2025 to allow data center use. Separate site from the Flexential/Trammell Crow proposal inside Salisbury city limits roughly ten miles away.
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
- Which utility serves 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.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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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.
- Flexential Salisbury (Henderson Grove Church Road) · Salisbury · Flexential8 mi · Proposed · 55 MW · Opposed
- Mooresville Campus · Mooresville · Tract24 mi · Cancelled
- Compass Statesville Campus · Statesville · Compass Datacenters28 mi · Proposed · 500 MW · Contested
- Segra Winston-Salem Data Center · Winston-Salem · Segra29 mi · Operating
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County) in Rowan County, North Carolina?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County) in Rowan County, North Carolina is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. More than 100 residents spoke in support of a county-wide data center moratorium, driven largely by this project.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County)?
No lawsuit over Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County) appears in the record we track as of August 15, 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 Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County) 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 Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County), and how big is it?
Undisclosed developer is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 400 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Long Ferry Road Data Center Campus (Rowan County)," updated August 15, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/long-ferry-road-rowan-county-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/long-ferry-road-rowan-county-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.RoCo passes data center moratorium, over 100 residents express data center opposition · Salisbury Post · retrieved August 15, 2026
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