How much does colocation cost in Raleigh-Durham and North Carolina?
Recent quotes we received for Southeast ran $180 to $220 per kW per month for up to 500 kW, falling to $140 to $160 above 1 MW.
| Deployment | Monthly rate | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 500 kW | $180 to $220/kW-mo | Our quotes |
| Over 500 kW to 1 MW | $160 to $190/kW-mo | Our quotes |
| Over 1 MW | $140 to $160/kW-mo | Our quotes |
The Southeast Region ranges cover North Carolina. They are regional planning figures, not a Raleigh-Durham asking-rent benchmark; a quote must name the building, power commitment and delivery date.
Smaller deployments cost more per kW. These are recent quotes we received, not a statement that space is available. Cross-connects, remote hands and one-time setup are extra. Operators often give 2–3 free months on a new term. See every region's quote ranges.
Market profileWhat the public evidence can tell you
The air register names Apple and Microsoft in Catawba County, Amazon at Hamlet and Fidelity in Research Triangle Park. Those records identify sites. They do not establish retail colocation, spare power or a delivery date. For a cabinet or cage search, begin with the buildings in the interconnection table and ask the operator what can be contracted.
Keep the regions separate
Catawba County
The linked air records name Apple at Maiden and Microsoft at Conover, Maiden and Newton. Microsoft paused its Catawba County build and restarted it in early 2026 after about ten months. A named campus is a useful siting signal, but its presence does not establish an offer of colocation to other companies.
Research Triangle
PeeringDB lists buildings in Raleigh, Durham and Morrisville, including CyrusOne, Flexential and TierPoint. Compare the exact network connections and support arrangements at each address. A regional network count cannot tell you whether your carrier reaches a particular room.
Triad and Madison
The WhiteFiber project at Madison is in Rockingham County. Its disclosed Nscale contract is separate from the Amazon air record at Hamlet in Richmond County. Similar county names do not make these the same project.
Western North Carolina
Asheville and Lenoir have public network listings. Forest City and Kings Mountain appear in the air records. Two of those records name companies you may not recognize. Tapaha Dynamics, LLC at 708 Lynhaven Drive in Lenoir is Google's Lenoir data center affiliate. Andale, Inc. on Social Circle in Forest City is a Meta subsidiary, at the address of Meta's Forest City campus. Both are company-owned campuses, not colocation. These places are shown separately from Charlotte; this guide is a regional comparison, not a claim that every site serves the same local requirement.
Air-register evidence, not a construction schedule
The air records below are undated. Several retain a Permanently Closed status, including the old American Express, Disney, Hosted Solutions and UNC Hospitals entries. These are register statuses, not a fresh inspection of each property. They must not be counted as operating or available inventory.
Air-register records outside Charlotte, including Catawba County, Hamlet and the Research Triangle. The total includes entries marked permanently closed. Every figure below is a count of filings we collected ourselves, and every row links to the record it came from.
| Measure | Figure | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Filings we track | 16 | Deduplicated. One source, which publishes no filing dates |
| Distinct addresses | 15 | Separate sites in the record, not separate buildings |
| Operators we can name | 5 | 7 of 16 filings name a recognizable operator. The rest name an engineer, a builder or a holding company |
| Filings with no date published | 16 | The source publishes the facility, not the filing date |
Operators appearing by name: Microsoft (3), Amazon Web Services (1), Apple (1), AT&T (1), Core Scientific (1).
The filings on the record
| Filed | Named on the filing | What it says | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| No date published | Amazon Web Services | Amazon Data Services, Inc. - Energy Way Tech Campus | Power and cooling |
| No date published | Not an identifiable operator | American Express Travel Related Services Co., ** Inactive ** | Power and cooling |
| No date published | Not an identifiable operator | Andale, Inc. | Power and cooling |
| No date published | Apple | Apple Inc. | Power and cooling |
| No date published | AT&T | Bellsouth Telecommunications, Llc Dba At&T North Carolina | Power and cooling |
| No date published | Not an identifiable operator | Disney - Kings Mountain Technology Center ** Inactive ** | Power and cooling |
| No date published | Not an identifiable operator | Fidelity Real Estate Co.- Fidelity Morrisville Data Center | Power and cooling |
| No date published | Not an identifiable operator | Hosted Solutions Acquisition - North Raleigh ** Inactive ** | Power and cooling |
Collected from EPA ECHO air facility records for North Carolina. A permit or air-register entry documents a site or proposed work. It does not establish current construction or available space, and no public filing anywhere discloses what is contractible at a named building. That answer comes from an operator call, which is the part we do by hand. See how we verify capacity.
Check the underlying records
These public entries were checked against our collected data on 24 September 2026. Each link opens its EPA record. A register status does not establish a current commercial offering.
| Registered applicant and record | Address | Register status |
|---|---|---|
| AMAZON DATA SERVICES, INC. - ENERGY WAY TECH CAMPUS | 1761 AIRPORT ROAD, HAMLET 28345 | Operating |
| AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES CO., ** INACTIVE ** | 5301 MCCONNELL ROAD, WHITSETT 27377 | Permanently Closed |
| ANDALE, INC. | 284 SOCIAL CIRCLE, FOREST CITY 28043 | Operating |
| APPLE INC. | 5977 STARTOWN ROAD, MAIDEN 28650 | Operating |
| BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, LLC DBA AT&T NORTH CAROLINA | 209 COUNTRYSIDE ROAD, KINGS MOUNTAIN 28086 | Operating |
| DISNEY - KINGS MOUNTAIN TECHNOLOGY CENTER ** INACTIVE ** | 138 RIVERSIDE COURT, KINGS MOUNTAIN 28086 | Permanently Closed |
| FIDELITY REAL ESTATE CO.- FIDELITY MORRISVILLE DATA CENTER | 7133 LOUIS STEPHENS DRIVE, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK 27560 | Operating |
| HOSTED SOLUTIONS ACQUISITION - NORTH RALEIGH ** INACTIVE ** | 5301 DEPARTURE DRIVE, RALEIGH 27616 | Permanently Closed |
| MICROSOFT CORPORATION, CLT04 AND CLT05 | 1723 N. NC HWY 16, CONOVER 28613 | Operating |
| MICROSOFT CORPORATION, CLT10 | 1400 ZEB HAYNES ROAD, MAIDEN 28650 | Operating |
| MICROSOFT CORPORATION, CLT17 | 3820 HICKORY-LINCOLNTON HWY, NEWTON 28658 | Operating |
| TAPAHA DYNAMICS, LLC | 708 LYNHAVEN DRIVE, LENOIR 28645 | Operating |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS - MEAD ** INACTIVE ** | 300 MEADOWMONT VILLAGE CIRCLE, CHAPEL HILL 27517 | Permanently Closed |
Where network operators list a presence
The following counts are PeeringDB listings. A network listed in more than one building contributes a presence at each; these are not unique regional carrier counts. Multiple registry entries can also refer to the same property. Confirm the required carriers and routes at the exact address.
Who is actually plugged in across North Carolina outside Charlotte
A building existing and a building being connected are different facts, and only one of them decides whether your traffic can get where it needs to go cheaply. These figures come from PeeringDB, which the network operators themselves maintain. Any building below can be looked up there by name.
| Measure | Figure | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Buildings listed | 15 | Registered in PeeringDB across North Carolina outside Charlotte, by 14 operators |
| Buildings with a network present | 11 | 4 carry no network presence, which usually means single tenant or simply unregistered |
| Network presences | 37 | Counted per building, so a carrier in three buildings counts three times |
| Internet exchange presences | 2 | Where you can reach many networks through one port instead of many cross-connects |
| Carrier presences | 7 | The physical transport choice you can buy without leaving the building |
| In the densest building | 16% | CyrusOne NC-1 holds 6 of the market's network presences |
The most connected buildings here
| Networks | Building | Operator | Exchanges | Carriers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | CyrusOne NC-1 | CyrusOne Inc. | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | ERC Broadband | ERC Broadband | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Flexential - Raleigh (RAL01/02/03) | Flexential Corp. | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | DartPoints Asheville, NC - AVL1 | DartPoints, LLC | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | TierPoint Research Triangle Park – RTP | TierPoint, LLC | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Level(3) Raleigh | Lumen Technologies Inc | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | TierPoint Raleigh | TierPoint, LLC | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | vXchnge Raleigh-Durham (NC01) | vXchnge | 0 | 1 |
From PeeringDB, which is maintained by the network operators present in these buildings rather than by the landlords, which is what makes it worth more than a directory. Two limits. Entries are voluntary, so a building showing no networks may be single tenant or may simply never have registered. And a network being present says nothing about whether the building has space, power or a price for you: that is still a call.
Facility inventory coverage
Our committed verified-inventory snapshot has no separate coverage for this region. We therefore publish no inventory count or available-space estimate here. Public air and network records remain separate evidence, with their own limits. See what verified building means.
What has been announced in North Carolina outside Charlotte
Announcements are not filings. Nobody has to build what they announce, the figure is the one the developer chose to publish, and the date moves. They are here because megawatts are what a requirement is measured in, and because the size of what is coming changes who will take your call. Every figure below links to a published report that states it, and was checked against at least one other independent report before it was written down.
| Capacity | Operator | Project | What was announced |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 MW | WhiteFiber | NC-1, Madison, Rockingham County | The sources disagree on when billing began. WhiteFiber's results for the second quarter, reported on 12 August 2026, say it began in Q2, while the September 2026 investor presentation says Q3. The full ramp is still subject to delivery, commissioning and customer acceptance. The 99 MW utility agreement and possible 200 MW supply describe different, conditional power measures and are not added to this row. Critical IT load contracted to Nscale, not unleased capacity |
This is a disclosed contract at one campus, not a North Carolina supply total. It does not show spare capacity for another tenant. Public air-register entries for other campuses contain no usable IT-load figure in our collected records; their megawatts remain unmeasured here. Read the reporting.
Announced capacity is collected by hand from trade reporting and company statements, and each figure links to the report it came from. It is kept apart from the permit record above and never added to it: one is a document a jurisdiction issued, the other is a plan a company published. Neither is availability.
The contracted IT-load figure is stated in WhiteFiber's September investor presentation and independently reported by NC AI News. Neither establishes that the entire contracted load has completed customer acceptance.
How to compare an actual requirement
Compare a network-led requirement with Charlotte and Richmond. Set a travel radius and name the carriers you need before comparing prices. For a larger deployment, request utility delivery milestones, usable IT load and customer acceptance dates separately.
Request the sellable IT load, rack density, cooling method, carrier access and ready-for-service date in writing. Distinguish power already delivered from power that depends on utility work. Record whether a quote reserves space and how long that reservation lasts.
Pricing context. This guide carries no posted list price for this region yet. A number here comes from a quote. For per kW and per MW figures by market, see the pricing benchmarks. The cost estimator gives an illustrative range based on Ashburn. Use it as a reference point, not a local price.