Microsoft Conover Data Center

Key facts

Location

Conover, NC · Catawba County

Capacity

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Announced

2022-11

Last updated

2026-08-15

Siting context

Nearest named waterway

≈ 0.3 mi — McLin Creek

Nearest high-voltage line

≈ 7.3 mi — 230 kV line

Baseline water stress

Medium - High(20-40%)

Principal aquifer

Piedmont And Blue Ridge Crystalline-rock Aquifers(Igneous and metamorphic-rock)

Straight-line distances. Nearest named waterway via the USGS National Hydrography Dataset; nearest transmission line via HIFLD. Baseline water stress and groundwater trend describe the surrounding hydrological basin (WRI Aqueduct 4.0, CC BY 4.0) — not this facility’s measured water use. Principal-aquifer system underlying the location (USGS, mapped at 1:2,500,000 — regional context, not site hydrogeology).

Status history

1. Proposed2022-11

   Announced as one of four Microsoft data centers planned across Catawba County; the Conover site is ~219 acres north of Conover on NC Hwy 16.

   Microsoft Plans $1 Billion Campus in North Carolina Cloud Cluster
2. Under construction2026-03-02

   Crews returned to the four Catawba County campuses after a roughly 10-month pause; commercial building permits were issued November–December 2025.

   Microsoft restarts $1B data center in Catawba County