Tract Mooresville Technology Park (withdrawn)
"There was never a 4,500 MW Tract campus in Apex. The real fight: a $30 billion megacampus on Dale Earnhardt's widow's land."
Mooresville, Iredell County, NC
Tract Mooresville Technology Park (withdrawn) is a withdrawn data center in Iredell County, NC, operated by Tract.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 21, 2026
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Overview
A note on the record: there was no 4,500-megawatt Tract data center in Apex, North Carolina. That figure conflated two separate projects, and this page now tracks the real one.
Tract is a Denver land aggregator that assembles large "powered land" parcels for hyperscalers, with a reported pipeline of more than 25 gigawatts across several states. Its North Carolina project was the Mooresville Technology Park in Iredell County, about 400 acres of land owned by Teresa Earnhardt, the widow of Dale Earnhardt, pitched at roughly $30 billion. Tract withdrew the rezoning in August 2025 before commissioners could deny it, after fierce local opposition and the company's refusal to name its end tenant.
The Apex-area project that residents fought was a different one: Natelli Investments' 300-megawatt New Hill Digital Campus near the Harris nuclear plant, withdrawn in March 2026. Tract has also been turned away in Hanover County, Virginia and Buckeye, Arizona, a pattern of large speculative campuses voted down by neighbors over water, traffic, and secrecy about who would actually move in.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentTract
- This facilityTract Mooresville Technology Park (withdrawn)
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: GDELTTax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
Water use
No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 4,500 MW (disclosed IT power): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Wake County), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.
Who lives nearby
source: Census ACS 2023Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, Mooresville Online Academy in Mooresville, is 211 ft from this site. 4 public schools sit within a mile of the site.
Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).
Hearings timeline
No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.