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T5 @ Charlotte II (Kings Mountain)

T5 @ Charlotte II (Kings Mountain)

Planned
Probable

Jurisdiction: US — North Carolina (Duke Energy)

Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, NC; 300-acre campus, Duke Energy 180MVA on-site substation. Phase I delivery 2026. (Operating T5 @ Charlotte IV, 6MW, on same campus.)

Capacity
60 MW basis: it load
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

61 /100
61/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual

Schedule

85 /100
85/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 T5 @ Charlotte II (Kings Mountain) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 T5 @ Charlotte II (Kings Mountain) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 T5 @ Charlotte II (Kings Mountain) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 T5 @ Charlotte II (Kings Mountain) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2013-09-13).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Commissioning

    Expected
    1 revision

    Commissioning · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
T5 Data Centers
Owner
Duke Energy
Utility Provider

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. T5 Data Centers · Sep 13, 2013 · backs: actual date

    https://t5datacenters.com/resources/t5-data-centers-signs-lease-with-financial-services-customer-at-t5kings-mountain-campus/

  2. T5 Data Centers · backs: capacity mw, expected date, status

    https://t5datacenters.com/locations/t5-charlotte-ii/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. T5 Data Centers