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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- Stevenson · Jackson County · Alabama
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000717
What the source record says
Campus operational since 2019 at the former TVA Widows Creek coal-plant site (~4.8 mi east of Stevenson). Recorded status is 'operational' (the campus is built and running); a $1.5B expansion announced June 15 2026 is under construction for 2026-2027 (captured in statusHistory). CAPACITY OMITTED: the widely cited 300 MW is Google's contracted new generation across the Tennessee Valley REGION, not a campus-specific figure. TVA partnership also includes a 2025 Kairos Power agreement for up to 50 MW of advanced nuclear for Google's AL/TN data centers (~2035). Construction workforce of 1,000+ is a projection (in notes, not jobs). Baxtel labels this 'Google Bridgeport'; TVA/Wikipedia/postal (35772) place Widows Creek near Stevenson - Stevenson used. 360-acre site; coordinates from the Widows Creek plant.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2015-06-24 · reported proposed
Google announced a $600M data center at the former TVA Widows Creek coal-plant site in Jackson County
- 2018-04 · reported under construction
Groundbreaking on the original $600M campus; 360-acre site off County Road 96
- 2019-01 · reported operational
Original campus operational with two buildings (~135,000 sq ft each)
- 2026-06-15 · reported under construction
$1.5B expansion announced; construction planned for 2026-2027; 1,000+ contract workers expected
Sources and attribution
- Google Blog: Alabama Investment - Jackson County Campus Expansion (June 2026) · Google
- Google to spend $1.5bn expanding Jackson County campus · Data Center Dynamics
- Google plans $1.5B Jackson County data center expansion · Alabama Reporter
- Google announces $1.5B Alabama data center expansion · 9to5Google
- Widows Creek Fossil Plant - coordinates and site history · Wikipedia
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Google's Jackson County expansion shows how data centers can work for Alabama · Yellowhammer News
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-jackson-county-stevenson-al. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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