id: google-lenoir
name: Google Lenoir data center
operator: google
status: operational
location:
  country: US
  state: NC
  county: Caldwell
  locality: Lenoir
announced_date: "2007"
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; references Google's Lenoir site and its expansions.
signals:
  - sig-20260706-google-lenoir-announced
  - sig-20260706-google-lenoir-investment
  - sig-20260706-google-lenoir-status
notes: >-
  announced_date "2007" from "selected 2007".
  status "operational/expanding" normalized to operational; the enum has no
  "expanding" state — ongoing growth captured here: signal reports a $600M
  expansion in 2024 and a fresh $1B expansion in 2026.
  investment_usd left blank: the signal gives two expansion figures ($600M in
  2024, $1B in 2026) rather than a single site investment total; summing would
  invent a number, so the figures are recorded in notes only.
  Single reputable secondary source.