New Hill Digital Campus

Name: New Hill Digital Campus
Address: US

Cancelled

United States · 1 project · Last reported 2026-03-10

Summary

Maryland developer Natelli Investments proposed a 250 MW data center campus on about 189 acres of former farmland on Shearon Harris Road in the New Hill community of Wake County, North Carolina, next to Duke Energy's Shearon Harris nuclear plant. The project needed annexation into and rezoning by the Town of Apex and drew organized local opposition in 2025. In March 2026 Natelli withdrew its annexation and rezoning applications, saying it would consider next steps only if Apex amended its zoning rules to allow data centers, while town leaders weighed a one-year moratorium.

Source record as of 2026-03-10 · Details and sources

Location

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Town or locality reference only; the facility position is not established.

Projects (1)

New Hill Digital Campus

Cancelled last observed as of 2026-03-10 · Reported status

Location: New Hill, Wake County, North Carolina, US. Wikipedia coordinates for the New Hill community. WRAL places the site on Shearon Harris Road beside the Shearon Harris nuclear plant, a few kilometres south of this point; no cited source gives site coordinates. WRAL; Bisnow

Capacity, investment and other figures

Measure	Value	Scope	As of	Notes	Sources
Power capacity	250 MW	Planned · Campus · Unspecified	2026-03-10		Bisnow; WRAL
Land area	about 189 acres	Planned · Campus	2026-03-10	A WRAL photo caption gives 190 acres.	Bisnow; WRAL

Companies and organizations

Name	Role	Notes	Sources
Natelli Investments	Developer		Bisnow; WRAL; ABC11 (WTVD)
Town of Apex	Government	Annexation and rezoning authority for the site.	WRAL; Bisnow

Timeline

Date	Event	Actual or planned	Notes	Sources
2025-09	Announced	Actual	Bisnow, writing in March 2026, says the developer first proposed the project in September and requested rezoning last fall, which places it in 2025. WRAL reports residents were already pushing back in August, so the proposal may have been known earlier.	Bisnow
2026-03-05	Cancelled	Actual	Natelli withdrew its annexation and rezoning applications on 5 March, per WRAL; ABC11 reports the company's announcement on 7 March.	WRAL; Bisnow; ABC11 (WTVD)

Recorded as cancelled because the developer withdrew its applications and the coverage describes the project as scrapped; Natelli said it could decide on a further course of action if Apex later adopts a zoning amendment allowing data centers.

Sources for these details

Apex Data Center Scrapped — Bisnow; 2026-03-10
Residents near proposed Apex data center relieved project is scrapped, says more work needed — WRAL; 2026-03-05
Data center developer pulls back from Apex for now — ABC11 (WTVD); 2026-03-07 · Archived source

Companies

Developer: Natelli Investments (unknown scope) evidence
Developer: Natelli Investments (unknown scope) evidence
Developer: Natelli Investments (unknown scope) evidence
Government: Town of Apex (unknown scope) evidence
Government: Town of Apex (unknown scope) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

Apex Data Center Scrapped evidence row
Bisnow · published 2026-03-10 · Trade publication

Locator

Locality reference only · Compiled location reference · locality evidence

Source checks

Not reviewed against imagery not_reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verification

Status age at review: 231 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 35.68110, -78.93560
Geometry licence: source-terms-not-recorded
Use scope: Locality reference only
Scope class: locality
Authority: Compiled location reference
Source entity: Project
Method: imported_reference_point
Derivation: imported_reference_point
Precision scope: Wikipedia coordinates for the New Hill community. WRAL places the site on Shearon Harris Road beside the Shearon Harris nuclear plant, a few kilometres south of this point; no cited source gives site coordinates.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
Geometry evidence: b65b4f7b

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.

Evidence for New Hill Digital Campus
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
Apex Data Center Scrapped Archived copy	Bisnow Trade publication	Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Land Area, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Announced, Milestone: Cancelled, Role: Developer, Role: Government	2026-03-10	2026-10-09	source-terms-not-recorded	Bisnow	`5980ec4eadb91aeb00110e51afc03db24a349325da1e6ab89c9697459339b16d` Factual source record; not the publisher page
Data center developer pulls back from Apex for now Archived copy	ABC11 (WTVD) News	Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Milestone: Cancelled, Role: Developer	2026-03-07	2026-10-09	source-terms-not-recorded	ABC11 (WTVD)	`bf4646ca797e3cf4afb3927433e791fd1c91ce581dcf4f4ef34fd69dedb55424` Factual source record; not the publisher page
Residents near proposed Apex data center relieved project is scrapped, says more work needed Archived copy	WRAL News	Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Land Area, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Cancelled, Role: Developer, Role: Government	2026-03-05	2026-10-09	source-terms-not-recorded	WRAL	`aa81f148d56e0fc6df509c4caa05ac1663e5e82e68deeb556ddd088dd0a16564` Factual source record; not the publisher page

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). New Hill Digital Campus [site vcc-site-ff3fe91dbbe9f9beaf9e]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-ff3fe91dbbe9f9beaf9e/

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