WhiteFiber NC-1 AI Data Center Campus

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.

1. August 15, 2026

   Operating
   WhiteFiber's Q2 2026 results report that NC-1 has moved from construction into customer deployment: initial capacity has been delivered, equipment startup and customer testing are underway, initial billing has commenced, and full contracted run-rate billing across the 40 MW of contracted IT load was expected during August 2026. Source: WhiteFiber, Inc. via PR Newswire
2. 2025

   Under construction
   WhiteFiber (Bit Digital's AI unit) acquired a ~1M sq ft NC industrial property for an AI/HPC campus; Nscale signed a 10-year, 40 MW anchor colocation (~$865M TCV) Source: Data Center Dynamics

Opposition and litigation at this site

Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for WhiteFiber NC-1 AI Data Center Campus in Madison, Rockingham County, North Carolina, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of October 28, 2026. Officials welcomed the project at the June 2025 announcement (Governor, Rockingham County commissioners, Madison mayor); the site is a converted former Unifi textile plant (brownfield reuse).

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: supported means local officials or residents have expressed public support and no opposition is documented.

Officials welcomed the project at the June 2025 announcement (Governor, Rockingham County commissioners, Madison mayor); the site is a converted former Unifi textile plant (brownfield reuse). No documented opposition found.

Source: WFDD

Power and water

99 MW power agreement with Duke Energy (24 MW targeted for delivery ~Sept 1, 2025), scalable to 200 MW over time.

Public money on the record

Notes on the record

Operator is WhiteFiber (Bit Digital's AI unit); Nscale is the 40 MW anchor tenant (10-year, ~$865M total contract value = revenue, not capex). ~1M sq ft, up to 150 kW/cabinet, 99 MW secured from Duke Energy, 200 MW eventual site potential (planned figure). As of October 2026, no operational IT capacity is recorded: WhiteFiber's NC-1 page (last updated May 2026) cites 24MW of power expected online in Q4 2025, a power-supply figure rather than IT capacity, and its second-quarter 2026 results state 40 megawatts of contracted IT load and that initial capacity has been delivered, but give no figure for IT capacity in operation. $150M WhiteFiber equity. Madison is in Rockingham County, NC. Coordinates are the Madison town centroid. Property acquired for $45M (2025, from Unifi); the total buildout described as 'over $1B' is conditional on reaching 200 MW -> no investment figure is recorded. WFDD (June 2025) reports that the planned investment of more than $1 billion is "estimated to generate some 60 jobs with an average salary of $67,000". Cooling type not publicly disclosed -> no water details are recorded.

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.

• Project Delta Data Center, Stokes County · Walnut Cove · Undisclosed (rezoning applicant: Engineered Land Solutions)12 mi · Permitted · In litigation
• Rural Hall Data Center (The Drox Group) · Rural Hall · The Drox Group18 mi · Cancelled · Contested
• DC BLOX High Point Data Center · High Point · DC BLOX23 mi · Cancelled · 18 MW
• Dynamic Quest Greensboro Data Center · Greensboro · Dynamic Quest23 mi · Operating
• ImpactData Greensboro · Greensboro · ImpactData23 mi · Under construction · 20 MW
• Segra Winston-Salem Data Center · Winston-Salem · Segra25 mi · Operating
• Lumen Greensboro 1 · Greensboro · Lumen Technologies26 mi · Operating

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