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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- QTS Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Bessemer · Jefferson County · Alabama
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001212
What the source record says
Codename: Project Marvel. 18-building hyperscale campus on Red Ridge near I-459 and I-20/59 interchange in Bessemer (Jefferson County). Announced capacity: up to 1,200 MW at full build-out — reported as a planned ceiling, roughly 9% of Alabama Power's current generating capacity; recorded as capacityMw.planned = 1200 (an announced 'up to' full-build-out ceiling, consistent with how the dataset records other announced full-build-out figures). Investment: reported at $14–14.5B across sources (Logistics Land Investment anticipated 'close to $14.4B'; WBRC reported $14.5B at November 2025 rezoning; DCD reported ~$14B); no single firm company-confirmed figure exists — treated as a projected cost range and excluded from investmentUsd. Land: ~1,607.42 acres total after two rezoning rounds (initial ~700 acres November 2025 + 914-acre expansion April 2026). QTS affiliate purchased land from TPA Group affiliate for $431.73M. Chapter 9B statutory eligibility would have provided a 30-year abatement estimated at $500M+; QTS committed not to seek local property tax incentives (per WBRC July 2026) — subsidy excluded as eligibility does not equal award and QTS renounced pursuit. Full buildout timeline: 7+ years. Birmingham Business Alliance estimated ~$4B net benefit over 30 years; Bessemer City Schools projected ~$25M/year. AI framing not officially confirmed by QTS or the city as of July 2026 — size and scale (hyperscale, cloud/AI demand framing in QTS statement) support 'likely' classification. Coordinates are approximate for the Red Ridge parcel area. Jobs: ~1,000 construction and ~330 permanent are projected figures for the proposed (not-yet-built) campus (WBRC, Nov 2025) — recorded as projections in notes, not structured jobs fields, per data-rigor policy. QTS Data Centers is owned by Blackstone (2021 take-private). STATUS JUDGEMENT SURFACED, NOT APPLIED: Bessemer approved land-use rezonings for this campus in November 2025 and again (914 acres) in April 2026, which under the wave's rule that a rezoning approval means permitted could argue for permitted rather than proposed. I did not change it, because the record's own cited source dated 2026-07-02 postdates both rezonings and still describes the campus as proposed, and no building permit or site-preparation start was found in any source fetched this run. A maintainer should decide whether a rezoning alone promotes this record.
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 · reported proposed
Project Marvel first surfaced March 2025; unnamed developer (via Logistics Land Investment LLC, an affiliate of Atlanta-based TPA Group) sought rezoning of ~700 acres in Bessemer for hyperscale data center
- 2025 · reported proposed
Bessemer City Council voted 5-2 to approve rezoning ~700 acres from agricultural (A-1) to light industrial (I-1) on November 18, 2025; developer identity still not publicly disclosed
- 2026 · reported proposed
Bessemer City Council approved rezoning of 914 additional acres in April 2026, expanding total site to ~1,607 acres; 18-building count unchanged, additional land used for wider buffers and layout flexibility
- 2026 · reported proposed
QTS Data Centers (Blackstone) publicly confirmed as operator behind Project Marvel, July 1-2, 2026; project described as in active planning stage
Sources and attribution
- QTS confirms plans for proposed data center campus in Bessemer · WBRC Fox6
- Purported Developer of $14bn Project Marvel Data Center in Bessemer Unveiled as QTS · Construction Review Online
- Bessemer City Council approves data center project despite transparency concerns (November 2025) · WBRC Fox6
- Bessemer approves rezoning of 914 acres for Project Marvel data center · ABC 3340
- Alabama's planned $14bn Project Marvel data center could double in size · Data Center Dynamics
- QTS Data Centers behind Bessemer Project Marvel plans · ABC 3340
- How Will Project Marvel Affect Bessemer And Surrounding Areas? · Tuscaloosa Thread
- Bessemer Residents Are Speaking Out Against AI Data Center Development · Community Sentinel
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID qts-marvel-bessemer-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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