Madison, NC · Rockingham County · 36.380°N 79.969°W
WhiteFiber NC-1 AI Data Center Campus
WhiteFiber (Bit Digital)
Key facts
- Location
- Madison, NC, Rockingham County
- Capacity
- 200 MW planned
- Powered by
- Duke Energy
- Announced
- 2025
- Last updated
Civic impact
Energy & water
- Energy source
- Grid · Utility: Duke Energy
99 MW power agreement with Duke Energy (24 MW targeted for delivery ~Sept 1, 2025), scalable to 200 MW over time.
Public subsidies
- North Carolina sales & use tax exemption for qualifying data centers (G.S. 105-164.13(55a)) - facility confirmed as a qualifying data center; no dollar value disclosedNorth Carolina · 2025
Community sentiment
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.
Rockingham County set to welcome a $1 billion AI data centerStatus history
- 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)
Nscale agrees $865m deal for 40MW of space at WhiteFiber data center in North Carolina
Location
Sources & data provenance
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