This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- University of Alabama
- Address and locality
- 709 Johnny Stallings Drive · Tuscaloosa · Tuscaloosa County · Alabama
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001512
What the source record says
University research computing facility on the eastern edge of the Tuscaloosa campus, not a commercial colocation or hyperscale site — include or exclude according to whether Compute Atlas tracks institutional HPC. UA states verbatim: "The facility's 40,000 square feet will allow for a substantial increase in UA's computing power" and "an estimated $25 million of computing power"; it will host a "petascale computing system, meaning it will be capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second" and be the "only system in Alabama to meet the benchmarks for the Top500 list". FUNDING, NOT RECORDED AS investmentUsd: the fetched source names a U.S. Department of Commerce NIST disbursement plus an Alabama Education Trust Fund appropriation approved by the legislature and Gov. Ivey in 2023, but states NO dollar totals for either; a search summary cited $96M total / $44.5M NIST / $46M ETF, and no page stating those was fetched, so they are omitted. The $25M is computing equipment, not construction investment, so investmentUsd is deliberately empty. NO CAPACITY RECORDED: no MW figure appears in the fetched source (an aggregator lists 14.6 MW — not verified, not cited). STATUS: recorded as under_construction because completion was projected for "late 2026" and that window is now open; a maintainer should check whether it has opened, in which case this becomes operational. Coordinates are the campus centroid, not the building on the eastern edge of campus.
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
- 2024-11 · reported under construction
UA Board of Trustees gave Stage IV approval on 12 November 2024; "Construction can begin" with completion projected for "late 2026".
Sources and attribution
- High Performance Computing and Data Center Construction Ready to Begin · University of Alabama News
- Nominatim geocode of the University of Alabama campus, Tuscaloosa · OpenStreetMap / Nominatim
- High Performance Computing and Data Center - Building Bama project page · The University of Alabama
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID university-of-alabama-hpc-tuscaloosa-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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