Mooresville Board of Commissioners Earnhardt Data Center Rezoning Withdrawal
Following sustained resident opposition before the Mooresville Board of Commissioners over rezoning rural land owned by Teresa Earnhardt for the Tract Mooresville Data Center Park, the developer formally withdrew its rezoning application on August 13, 2025.
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Mooresville Board of Commissioners Earnhardt Data Center Rezoning Withdrawal
Mooresville Board of Commissioners · August 13, 2025
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- Clip 1 · 0:22 Resident public comment Resident Public Comment auto captions, unchecked
Summary of resident protests at Mooresville town meetings leading to the withdrawal of the rezoning application for the proposed data center campus on Teresa Earnhardt's property.
"uh, the name has been tied to, um, the Earnhardts, um, and the land that they own, and it's really around this massive data center. Um, and again, it's a proposal that's sparked a lot of controversy. Let's just start there, um, and maybe, you know, who you just spoke to, uh, about where this development is, uh, in terms of where this project is here at Walker. Yeah, I actually just walked out of an interview with the mayor of Mooresville, who has informed us that"
- Clip 2 · 0:53 Resident public comment Resident Public Comment auto captions, unchecked
Residents and community speakers address Mooresville Board of Commissioners regarding local water, power grid, noise, and zoning impacts.
"to build this data center on this property that's owned by Teresa Earnhardt, which is a big news for a lot of residents here. They have protested at recent meetings. They have made a website. That has garnered a lot of attention. It's also gone national, so it's been a national news story as well that they've had covered, so it's become a really big deal. Obviously, I think a little bit of that is attached to the Earnhardt name, uh, that has to do with that."
- Clip 3 · 2:02 Mooresville Board of Commissioners Member Elected Official Questioning auto captions, uncheckedZoning Water Power & Grid
Mooresville Board of Commissioners members deliberate on municipal siting standards, utility capacity, and the recorded ordinance action.
"Of course. So, first is the amount of water that it's gonna take for this property. A lot, a lot of those people that live in that area are unwell, so they're concerned about how much water this would take, uh, some of them saying that computers are evolving in their size and years from. Now if a data center like this is built, and they have technology 20 years from now that a computer can be used in a much smaller format, you then have this large facility sitting there vacated,"
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