CoreWeave Marble NC In review
Chip types: B200. Epoch AI estimates ~65 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- CoreWeave
- Owner
- CoreWeave
- Tenant
- OpenAI
- Size
- 65 MW
- Location
- Marble (Cherokee County), North Carolina
- Stage today
- In review
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: An application is in the record. Ask the planning office for the next hearing date and request formal notice.
What has happened so far (5 events)
- 2025-07-07announcement
Core Scientific announced a definitive agreement for CoreWeave to acquire it in an all-stock deal implying roughly $9.0 billion equity value (0.1235 CoreWeave shares per Core Scientific share), giving CoreWeave about 1.3 GW of gross power across Core Scientific's national data center footprint. · source - 2025-10-30withdrawal
Core Scientific announced termination of its merger agreement with CoreWeave after stockholders did not provide the votes necessary to approve the deal, saying it would remain a publicly traded company on Nasdaq under ticker CORZ. · source - 2026-01-01vote
At a Cherokee County commissioners meeting in January 2026, commissioner Ben Adams urged colleagues to renew an expired cryptocurrency moratorium and add AI data centers to the restricted businesses; the proposal did not pass. · source - 2026-04-10coverage
WUNC reported on Cherokee County resident opposition to the conversion of the Marble crypto mine into an AI data center, noting the site plan submitted to the county specified more than 170 diesel generators and that the facility draws water from the municipal supply plus three onsite wells. · source - 2026-05-14coverage
Grist reported on the conversion of the former American Thread plant in Marble from crypto mining to an AI data center consuming as much power as a medium-sized town, noting the site plan included more than 170 diesel generators and that the Core Scientific–CoreWeave merger had fallen through the prior October. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- North Carolina DEQ — Division of Air QualityThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- Search North Carolina DEQ — Division of Air Quality for this projectsearchThis state publishes no searchable permit database, so a written records request to the agency is the reliable route. Use this search only to find the right office.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Marble (Cherokee County) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Marble (Cherokee County) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- PJM Interconnection (Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
- North Carolina Utilities Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 35.150, -83.950 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Around here
- North Carolina briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in North Carolina
- Project Iron Spur — Rural Hall (Forsyth County), 219 mi Awaiting decision
- Project Delta — Walnut Cove (Stokes County), 228 mi In review
- Terra Nexus data center campus (316 Old Cheraw Highway) — Rockingham (Richmond County), 237 mi In review
- Southeast Raleigh Data Center — Raleigh, 302 mi Withdrawn
- Drox Group Rural Hall — Rural Hall (Forsyth County) Denied
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “CoreWeave Marble NC”, aigridwatch.com/projects/coreweave-marble-nc, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
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