Bessemer Mayor Louise Alexander said she wants work paused on the massive QTS data center development in Rock Mountain Lakes until city leaders meet with developers.
Fairfield city leaders are looking into a new financing tool that could help business and property owners pay for upgrades on commercial buildings, including the proposed Patmos data center.
The Brookwood City Council voted Tuesday to support a resolution backing the Tuscaloosa County Economic Development Authority’s agreement with Applied Digital for the company’s “Delta Forge 2” AI data center project.
Birmingham homeowners suing to block the Nebius data center are trying to subpoena records from Iron City Premier Realty, the firm founded by Mayor Randall Woodfin's wife, and the city is objecting, setting up a hearing before a judge.
Planning is moving forward on the $3.2 billion AI data center campus in Brookwood, and new details are emerging about what Applied Digital’s “Delta Forge Two” project could mean for neighbors near Brookwood Middle School.
By Jenn Horton and Shannon Maze, WBRC News Director
A WBRC 6 News investigation examined the new data center law, the contracts filed since the commission began reworking its review process and how much of that process the public is allowed to see.
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Applied Digital has confirmed its Delta Forge 2 AI Factory campus will be built in Brookwood, following weeks of environmental and transparency concerns about the site.
Bessemer’s Mayor-elect says a controversial data center project drove people to the polls. Mayor Kenneth Gulley and other leaders who voiced support for “Project Marvel” were voted out of office after Tuesday’s runoff elections.
The Brookwood City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to annex land along Brookwood Industrial Parkway, a step that could lead to a data center in the city.
Fairfield Mayor Herman Carnes Jr. and a city councilor traveled to Kansas City this week to tour a Patmos data center tech campus. The company is proposing to convert the old Walmart Supercenter in Fairfield into a data center and technology campus.
A Regions Bank shareholder is suing over a $66 million loss after company land tied to Nebius's Birmingham data center was flipped three times in a single day.
Brookwood Mayor Joe Barger confirmed for the first time that a proposed development in the city is an AI data center, during a city council meeting Tuesday at the G.G. Hardin Center. However, Barger said there’s no signed project yet.
A community forum focused on surveillance took place in Tuscaloosa as concerns continue to grow around the country with Flock license plate cameras and data centers.
Officials with the town said the purpose of the moratorium is to allow time to study the potential economic and infrastructure impacts data centers have on Alabama municipalities.
Tuesday, Westover city leaders unanimously voted to implement a 6-month moratorium on data centers. The decision comes after a few neighbors spoke out against them saying data centers could have an impact on the land, environment and other potential costs.
The city of Westover is hosting a town hall this week on a proposed data center, following the city council’s decision to postpone a vote on a data center moratorium at its last meeting.
Helena city leaders are weighing a months-long ban on data centers, and several other businesses, citing environmental concerns and wanting to look deeper into possible regulations.
Hundreds of residents packed the Fairfield Civic Center Wednesday night, Aug. 12, to question city leaders and officials from Patmos, the tech company proposing a colocation data center in the city.
Tuesday, inside a packed meeting, the Brookwood Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously to recommend a rezoning petition for “Project Brookwood” which would rezone 374 acres to light industrial. On the petition it says “data center campus.”
A proposed massive data center campus in Brookwood has drawn scrutiny from residents and environmental advocates, with neighbors raising concerns about transparency from city officials.
Residents of Brookwood are responding after the Alabama Department of Environmental Management approved a permit that could lead to a data center in the community.
A permit application granted by Alabama’s Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) indicates a company based in Texas is planning to build a 2-million-square-foot data center in Brookwood, although the company said no decision has been made yet.
The conversations surrounding data centers is unfolding across Alabama as tech giants and infrastructure developers pour millions of dollars into new developing these facilities.
A newly-filed Alabama Power contract offers the public a rare glimpse at how Alabama Power proposes to serve a controversial data center in Jefferson County and how difficult it can be to for citizens evaluate the deal.
The Columbiana City Council has approved a multi-million-dollar agreement with a data center company — a deal city leaders say sets a precedent for how municipalities could handle the growing industry.
We’re learning more about what may be coming to Fairfield after the mayor announced a tech company is eyeing the city for a colocation data center. There are still a lot of questions about the project but a similar facility in Missouri could offer clues about what Fairfield might expect.
A company called Patmos is proposing a colocation data center in Fairfield, Mayor Herman Carnes, Jr. confirmed. Residents are expressing mixed reactions to the proposal, and the city has scheduled a town hall to give the public more information.
Earlier this year, 6 On Your Side Investigates got a closer look at the QTS campus in Georgia. Records obtained by our sister station, Atlanta News First, now raise questions about Georgia’s largest data center and its water use.
Fairfield city leaders confirmed that talks are ongoing about a colocation data center. They posted an open letter to residents on Facebook and announced a public town hall for July 28 at the Fairfield Civic Center.
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is reaffirming his support for data centers in Alabama, saying the facilities will bring revenue to schools, law enforcement and other public services.
Environmental groups are raising transparency concerns after learning Bessemer Mayor Kenneth Gulley, the city attorney and the mayor’s chief of staff signed a non-disclosure agreement connected to a proposed large-scale data center.
The Greater Birmingham Humane Society has filed a lawsuit against Nebius, the company building an AI data center near the organization’s property, saying it could not get answers about how the facility would affect the animals in its care.
A Jefferson County judge ruled Friday that a lawsuit filed by Oxmoor Valley residents against the Nebius data center under construction off Lakeshore Parkway can move forward.
The Greater Birmingham Humane Society (GBHS) filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County Circuit Court on Friday, July 10, asking for judicial review of the approvals and permits issued for a proposed hyperscale data center.
Construction has begun on a Nebius AI factory data center off Lakeshore Parkway in Birmingham’s Oxmoor Valley neighborhood, and residents living across the street say they have concerns about what the project means for them.
We have confirmed one of the companies involved in that massive and controversial data center project in Bessemer. A spokesperson with QTS Data Centers tells WBRC, the company is pursuing plans to build a data center campus on the Project Marvel site in Bessemer.
A civil lawsuit challenging Bessemer's rezoning of hundreds of acres for a $14 billion data center project has been dismissed after more than a year of litigation.
