Turning Fortune - Community relations TopicItems in the Community relations topic on Turning Fortunehttps://turningfortune.com/Pitt Race sold to creepy shell company of data center developer for $50 millionhttps://turningfortune.com/news/pitt-race-sold-to-creepy-shell-company-of-data-center-developer-for-50-million/https://turningfortune.com/news/pitt-race-sold-to-creepy-shell-company-of-data-center-developer-for-50-million/Doesn’t sound like a win for the neighborhood to me.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:00:00 GMT2026-03-27T16:00:00.000ZCommunity relationsJon MitchellThis seems like a cautionary tale for U.S. communities who are letting their race tracks close. There’s only one thing a giant, available plot of land in this country gets turned into these days, and that’s a big ol’ creepy-sounding AI data center. The racist-ly named Wampum I, LLC, a Delaware shell company with the same address as a developer called Provident Data Centers, has just paid $130,000 per acre for the beloved Pitt Race International complex, and you can practically hear the self-driving bulldozers already.

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