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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Nebius Group
- Address and locality
- Birmingham · Jefferson County · Alabama
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001032
What the source record says
Nebius Group's Birmingham AI Factory (site code BHM01); distinct from nebius-vineland-nj and nebius-independence-mo. Capacity phased: Phase I = 100 MW (targeted H2 2026), Phase II adds 200 MW (full 300 MW by 2027-2028). Land acquisition $90M confirmed (2025-09-30); ~$855M in construction permits issued (April 2026) with $2.1B more under review; total capex described as 'tens of billions' (a projection) - so investmentUsd is omitted. ~100-125 projected permanent jobs (in notes, not jobs). Site: former Regions Lakeshore Operations Center (~80 acres) acquired from UAB, Regions Bank, and U.S. Steel; general contractor Hoar Construction. Coordinates address-approximate (201 Milan Pkwy, Oxmoor Corporate Park).
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
- 2025-09-30 · reported permitted
Land acquisition closed: ~80 acres at Milan Pkwy / Venice Rd acquired for $90M via affiliate Alabama ADC Holdings LLC
- 2026-01-29 · reported permitted
Building permit BLD2026-00195 filed; project grandfathered before Birmingham's proposed data-center moratorium
- 2026-04-01 · reported under construction
First construction permits issued (~$855M under contract); Hoar Construction begins work
Sources and attribution
- Nebius x Birmingham, Alabama - Official Project Page · Nebius Group
- Nebius targets data center development in Birmingham, Alabama · Data Center Dynamics
- NBIS Alabama Data Center: Inside the Birmingham AI Factory · Northwise Project
- Permit filed for multibillion-dollar, 75-acre data center in Birmingham · Yellowhammer News
- New Lawsuit Against Nebius Data Center Challenges Validity of Regs and Decisions · Birmingham Watch
- Nebius Birmingham, Alabama - Baxtel (Site Code BHM01) · Baxtel
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Battle Against Oxmoor Valley Data Center Fizzles but Residents Left With Concerns · BirminghamWatch
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID nebius-bhm01-birmingham-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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