AI cloud company WhiteFiber has agreed to buy two manufacturing properties in Yadkin County, North Carolina, for $60 million and retrofit them into data center campuses.
The sites will be known as NC-2 and NC-3. WhiteFiber expects the pair to deliver a combined minimum of 60MW of initial gross utility capacity, split evenly between the two locations, with initial ready-for-service capacity targeted for the third quarter of 2027. The company said the properties could support roughly 200MW of combined gross utility capacity over time.
The seller is Unifi Manufacturing, Inc., a textiles producer. Unifi said the transaction covers approximately 120 acres of land and 500,000 square feet of warehouse space across the two locations. Unifi CEO Eddie Ingle described the sale as part of an effort to make the company leaner and more profitable by identifying portions of its real estate portfolio that were no longer central to operations.
WhiteFiber CEO Sam Tabar said the properties would expand the company's North Carolina footprint near NC-1 and build on relationships already established in the region. The deal was made through WhiteFiber's wholly owned data center subsidiary, Enovum Data Centers Corp., and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026.
The new sites sit roughly 55 miles from WhiteFiber's 40MW NC-1 campus in Madison, North Carolina, which also began as a Unifi manufacturing site and went live over the summer. WhiteFiber is backed by Bit Digital.
Source: Data Center Dynamics - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/whitefiber-acquires-two-sites-in-north-carolina-plans-data-center-developments/