id: microsoft-catawba
name: Microsoft Catawba County campuses (Conover / Hickory / Maiden)
operator: microsoft
status: under-construction
location:
  country: US
  state: NC
  county: Catawba
first_seen: "2026-07-07"
last_updated: "2026-07-07"
confidence: low
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; reports Microsoft's Catawba County investment across three sites.
signals:
  - sig-20260706-microsoft-catawba-investment
  - sig-20260706-microsoft-catawba-status
notes: >-
  This record aggregates three distinct Microsoft campuses (Conover, Hickory,
  Maiden) that the signals do not separate; per the one-record-per-site rule
  these should be split into individual records once per-site signals arrive.
  locality omitted because three localities apply and precedence forbids
  combining them — resolved to county (Catawba).
  investment_usd left blank: "$1 billion+" is an aggregate across the three
  Catawba County sites, not a single-site figure.
  status "announced/under construction" is a mix across the three sites;
  under-construction chosen as the furthest-along stated stage — some sites may
  still be at the announced stage. Confidence low due to the lumped multi-site,
  mixed-status data from a single secondary source.