Alabama index · last changed 12 September 2026

Alabama research coverage.

See the available records, draft source-family audit and remaining research gaps. A state page is not a complete inventory of its data centers.

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Research coverage

Research draft available; independent coverage review pending

Research draft available. Candidate findings and statewide coverage await independent review.

Draft source attempts: 2026-09-11 through 2026-09-11. These are draft audit dates, not a new independent check.

0 reviewed project/campus records; 0 reviewed facility/building records; 0 uncounted records. Inventories are non-additive.

Draft source-family roster and gaps
  • economic development incentives — searched_partial

    Source references: AL-S0001, AL-S0002, AL-S0003, AL-S0004, AL-S0005, AL-S0006

    • No statewide register of Chapter 9B data processing center abatements or Alabama Jobs Act awards was found; local grants by county and city boards were not systematically searched.
    • The Department of Commerce news archive was not paged for every data center announcement; no government announcement of Google's 2026 expansion was located.
  • utility commission large load — searched_partial

    Source references: AL-S0007, AL-S0008, AL-S0009, AL-S0010, AL-S0011

    • Docket 33709 document list pages 2-3 need ASP.NET postbacks and were not read, so the Dotier, Alabama ADC Holdings and Woostor contract filings were not retrieved.
    • Alabama Power's IRP load forecast and any certificate or acquisition dockets tied to data center load (e.g., Lindsay Hill) were not reviewed beyond a keyword scan of one summary report.
  • environmental construction permits — searched_partial

    Source references: AL-S0012, AL-S0013

    • ADEM eFile (air and water permit documents by facility) was not searched.
    • Jefferson County Department of Health air permit notices, the air authority for Birmingham, Bessemer and Fairfield sites, were not browsed directly.
    • Applications older than the 30-day window and local building or grading permits (e.g., Birmingham permits for the Nebius site) were not reached.
  • municipal planning assessor gis — searched_partial

    Source references: AL-S0014, AL-S0015, AL-S0016

    • Bessemer's November 2025 rezoning ordinance was not retrieved.
    • Birmingham zoning, Zoning Board of Adjustment and City Council records for the Nebius site were not retrieved.
    • Jefferson County assessor and GIS parcel records were not queried.
    • Westover, Fairfield, Prichard, Columbiana, Childersburg, Calvert and Lowndes County minutes were not searched.
  • tax abatement development agreements — searched_partial

    Source references: AL-S0017

    • No IDB, county or city abatement agreement was opened for any Alabama data center.
    • Lowndes County (Project Red Clay), Jefferson County, Montgomery, Madison County and Jackson County abatement records were not searched.
  • operator disclosures — searched_partial

    Source references: AL-S0018, AL-S0019, AL-S0020, AL-S0021, AL-S0022, AL-S0023, AL-S0024, AL-S0025, AL-S0026

    • Colocation and enterprise operators other than DC BLOX in Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile and Montgomery were not enumerated.
    • Nebius's Birmingham project page and QTS disclosures were not opened.
  • open datasets directories — searched

    Source references: AL-S0027

    • Directory listings (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com) were not used as cross-references.
    • Compute Atlas coordinates were not copied because its precision flags were not reconciled with its notes.
  • historical closures withdrawals names — searched_partial

    Source references: AL-S0028

    • Moratorium ordinances and any withdrawn applications were not retrieved from the municipalities or counties.
    • Meta Huntsville's paused expansion was not confirmed from a fetched source.
  • news and other discovery — searched_partial

    Source references: AL-S0029, AL-S0030, AL-S0031, AL-S0032, AL-S0033, AL-S0034

    • No county-by-county news sweep; Bessemer, Birmingham, Lowndes and Morgan County coverage was seen mostly as search snippets.

No reviewed records published. This does not mean there are no data centers in this state.