id: apple-maiden
name: Apple Maiden iDataCenter
status: operational
location:
  country: US
  state: NC
  county: Catawba
  locality: Maiden
metrics:
  building_sqft: 500000
announced_date: "2009"
first_seen: "2026-07-07"
last_updated: "2026-07-07"
confidence: medium
sources:
  - url: https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/cloud/article/21437740/microsoft-plans-1-billion-campus-in-north-carolina-cloud-cluster
    title: Microsoft Plans $1 Billion Campus in North Carolina Cloud Cluster
    publisher: Data Center Frontier
    note: Secondary source; mentions Apple's Maiden facility in the context of NC's cloud cluster.
signals:
  - sig-20260706-apple-maiden-announced
  - sig-20260706-apple-maiden-sqft
  - sig-20260706-apple-maiden-status
notes: >-
  Operator is Apple, which has no data/operators.yml entry — operator Apple
  needs an operators.yml entry before the field can be set; omitted for now.
  building_sqft resolved from "500,000+ sq ft including a $175 million,
  237,600-sq-ft addition" — recorded as 500,000+ base; the $175M / 237,600-sq-ft
  addition is a further phase not yet split into its own metric.
  Single reputable secondary source (Data Center Frontier).