FACILITY PROFILE · NC

Meta Forest City Data Center

Meta · Forest City · NC

PROJECT FACTS

Facility overview

Operational

Operator: Meta
Location: Forest City, Rutherford, NC
Operating power capacity: Not publicly reported
Planned power capacity: Not publicly reported
AI classification: Likely
Source confidence: Confirmed
Reported energy source: solar
Reported utility: Duke Energy
Cooling system: Not publicly reported
Location accuracy: approximate
Original announcement: 2010
Source record updated: 2026-10-15

Operating MW and planned MW are separate disclosures, not automatically additive. Blank values mean no established source figure; they do not mean zero. Geolocation may be approximate or represent multiple sites.

SOURCE DOCUMENTATION

Original source links

Meta Forest City Data Center info sheet — broke ground 2010, $750M+ invested in North Carolina ↗2026-07-19

Rutherford County GIS parcel record (PIN 1558722267, 408 Social Circle — ANDALE LLC, Menlo Park mailing address, $176.9M assessed building value = built) ↗2026-07-19

Data Center Knowledge - Study: Facebook Data Center in NC Has Massive Economic Impact (search-summary, not directly fetched) ↗2026-07-24

Meta Data Centers — Meta's Forest City Data Center info sheet (Meta's own newsroom) ↗2026-09-14

Data Center Knowledge — Facebook Plans North Carolina Data Center (2010) ↗2026-07-25

Rutherford County Economic Development Commission — Data Centers Growing in North Carolina ↗2026-07-25

North Carolina data center developers are moving hyperscale projects forward at hyperspeed ↗2026-08-15

Developers are moving NC data center projects forward at hyperspeed ↗2026-10-15

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