Data Center Registry
Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway)
Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina
Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway) is a proposed data center in Rockingham, North Carolina (Richmond County), operated by Terra Nexus Land Fund I, LLC. The public record puts it at 165 acres, a reported $1.2 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Terra Nexus Land Fund I, LLC
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 316 Old Cheraw Highway, Rockingham, Richmond County, NC, 28379
- Coordinates
- 34.9151, -79.7948 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 165 acres
- Investment
- $1.2 billion
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 30 permanent
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- 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.
- August 4, 2026ProposedRockingham planning board unanimously recommended rezoning ~165 acres at 316 Old Cheraw Highway from R-7 high-density residential to conditional light industrial for a data center; city council hearing followed on 2026-08-13. Source: Richmond County Daily Journal
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway) in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Residents are split; state Rep.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
Residents are split; state Rep. Ben Moss called for more public input before the council acts. City council scheduled a public hearing following the planning board recommendation.
Power and water
Applicant redesigned the cooling system to a closed-loop recycling system; original filing estimated 75,000 gallons/day, revised so average daily use is limited to the domestic water use of about 30 occupants.
Notes on the record
Separate from the AWS Richmond County campus already tracked, different applicant, different parcel inside the City of Rockingham, and reported locally as the county's third data center project. No capacity figure has been disclosed.
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
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Amazon Web Services Richmond County Data Center Campus · Rockingham · Amazon Web Services2 mi · Under construction · Supported
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway) in Rockingham?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway) in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Residents are split; state Rep.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway)?
No lawsuit over Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway) 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 Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway), and how big is it?
Terra Nexus Land Fund I, LLC is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 165 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Terra Nexus Rockingham Data Center (Old Cheraw Highway)," updated August 15, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/terra-nexus-rockingham-richmond-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/terra-nexus-rockingham-richmond-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.Rockingham Council to hold public hearing on data center rezoning · Richmond County Daily Journal · retrieved August 15, 2026
- 2.Rockingham Planning Board Backs $1.2B Data Center Rezoning as Residents Raise Concerns · WKML 95.7 · retrieved August 15, 2026
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