Denver-based Tract is quietly turning a swath of rural Caldwell County into a massive future home for cloud and AI computing, nearly doubling its planned data center campus to about 3,000 acres after a fresh land buy. South of Austin, in the Uhland–Lockhart stretch, the buildout could become one of the largest data center footprints in the Austin–San Antonio corridor if tenant deals come through, and company leaders say multiple cloud and AI operators are already circling, according to the Austin Business Journal.
Executives told the Austin Business Journal that Tract recently added roughly 1,458 acres to its holdings, bringing the campus footprint to around 3,000 acres. The company previously announced a roughly 1,515-acre purchase in May 2025 and said in a press release that the original site is provisioned for multi-gigawatt capacity, with work already underway alongside local utilities, according to Tract.
Site plan and power timeline
Tract has pitched the Caldwell County campus as a hub tailor-made for cloud services, inferencing, and AI training workloads, with space reserved to add on-site power generation if needed. Local utility deals are structured to deliver an initial 360 megawatts of energized capacity in the first phase, with room for multiple gigawatts at full buildout, according to Data Center Dynamics. The developer and area electric cooperatives are already coordinating long-lead equipment to stay on schedule for those early power timelines.
Local leaders and infrastructure commitments
County and city officials in the Lockhart–Uhland area have largely welcomed the project, framing it as a long-term jobs and tax-base play. Tract has floated plans to help pay for upgrades to FM 2720 and other nearby roads as part of its community investment pitch, and executives have been holding recurring meetings with municipal leaders to walk through potential impacts and benefits, including infrastructure spending and local hiring, according to the Austin Monitor.
Grid, water and policy questions
The sheer scale of data center megasites like this is raising familiar questions in Central Texas about electricity demand, water use and the pressure on local services. Public-interest reporting has highlighted those tradeoffs across the Austin–San Antonio market as new facilities stack up, and state lawmakers and utilities are weighing measures, including possible requirements for on-site generation or curtailment programs, to keep big projects from overloading the grid at peak times, according to KUT.
How this fits into a bigger boom
Tract is hardly alone in chasing enormous, master-planned data center campuses, but it is one of the more aggressive players. Industry coverage notes that the company controls tens of thousands of acres across several states and markets multi-gigawatt capacity to hyperscale customers, according to Data Center Frontier. The Caldwell County property sits across from a sizable Prime Data Centers project and was once floated as a potential semiconductor site, a reminder that this corridor has become prime territory for power-hungry, infrastructure-heavy industry…