Tract breaks ground on hyperscale data center
Northern Nevada’s growing data center sector officially added another major active project to its fold as a Denverbased company broke ground on a new development.
Data center land acquisition and development company Tract started construction on its new Peru Shelf Technology Park at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center east of Reno, the company said in a release at the end of April.
The data center project is located at the same Storey County industrial park that hosts Tesla’s Gigafactory 1, Switch’s Citadel campus, plus facilities owned by Google and rising battery recycling and materials company Redwood Materials.
What is a ‘hyperscale’ data center?
Tract is building what’s called a “hyperscale data center” on 686 acres of land at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center.
A hyperscale data center refers to a large data center development that can be scaled up to accommodate several data center campuses and thousands of servers.
The Peru Shelf Technology Park is the first project by Tract in the greater
Reno area.
“We see long-term potential for the greater Reno data center cluster to support rapid deployment of cloud and AI data centers,” said Tract CEO Grant van Rooyen.
What will Tract’s Peru Shelf Technology Park project entail?
Tract first announced its acquisition of 2,200 acres of land from Blockchains LLC in Storey County in October last year. The deal includes 1,100 acre feet of water rights at the Peru Shelf and South Valley. Tract also has a deal with NV Energy to provide 2 gigawatts of power for the data center project starting in 2026. A gigawatt of energy is enough to power about 750,000 homes.
“These data center parks will be some of the biggest consumers of energy on our system,” said Doug Cannon, NV Energy President and CEO, last year.
In addition to building NV Energy switch stations, the project will also include access roads and infrastructure for wet utilities such as waste water.
Tract’s Peru Shelf Technology Park project is the latest in a string of data center projects in the region. Other recent projects in the area include the 65megawatt PowerHouse Reno facility by Virginia-based PowerHouse Data Centers and the EdgeCore data center campus by Arizona-based EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure.
Tract itself is developing about 20,000 acres worth of projects across the United States. The company plans to expand its Peru Shelf Technology project as demand not just for cloud services but artificial intelligence uses continues to rise.
“Our investment in master-planned digital infrastructure will continue to scale significantly in the coming years,” Cannon said.