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DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus

Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama · All 15 DC BLOX sites

OperatingNo reception on recordAI mixed useRecord updated October 28, 2026

DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus is an operating data center in Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County), operated by DC BLOX. The public record puts it at 60 MW planned.

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Facility record

Operating

Operator: DC BLOX
Facility type: Data center, AI use mixed
Location: 433 6th Street South, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL, 35233
Coordinates: 33.5007, -86.8208
Power capacity: 5 MW operating; 60 MW planned
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Not established from a public source
Cooling: Not established
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: Not established from a public source
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: No reception on record
Source confidence: Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of October 28, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Notes on the record

Operator spec page states verbatim: "Up to 5MW critical load; expandable up to 60MW" and "31,000 sq. ft. initially; expandable up to 200,000 sq. ft.", with a planned expansion building of 263,000 SF. A campus-level stat block on the same page reads "4 Data Centers (Operational & in Development)", "294,000 Square Feet", "49 Critical MW (Committed & Planned)", the 60MW and 49MW figures are stated on the same page and are not reconciled by DC BLOX; both are recorded verbatim rather than normalized. Cooling: the source's cooling list says only "N+1 cooling", "Hot aisle containment" and "High efficiency Direct Expansion (DX)", and its high-density section adds "Water-cooled rear-door heat exchangers per cabinet"; as of October 2026, it does not state how the facility rejects heat or whether any cooling water is evaporated, so the cooling type is recorded as unknown. Site is the former Ingalls Ironworks building; DC BLOX states it is the first multi-tenant data center in Alabama to hold Uptime Institute Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility. Coordinates are the OSM building polygon centroid for the parcel, which OSM independently tags as a data centre named "DC Blox Data Center". As of September 2026, investment, jobs and subsidies were not stated in any source found and had not been checked at the Jefferson County / City of Birmingham tier, so their absence here is a gap in the research, not an audited negative.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
Land area
How the community has received it
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised: The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
Land area: The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
How the community has received it: Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Nebius Birmingham AI Factory (BHM01) · Birmingham · Nebius Group3 mi · Under construction · 300 MW · In litigation
Patmos Fairfield Colocation Data Center · Fairfield · Patmos5 mi · Proposed · 45 MW · Contested
G. Phillip Pope Technology Center (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama Data Center) · Birmingham · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama8 mi · Operating
AT&T Hoover Data Center · Hoover · AT&T9 mi · Operating
QTS Bessemer (Project Marvel) · Bessemer · QTS Data Centers10 mi · Proposed · 1.2 GW · Contested
Swift Willow Westover Data Center Campus · Westover · Swift Willow Property, LLC20 mi · Proposed · Mixed reception
Digi Power X Columbiana AI Data Center · Columbiana · Digi Power X25 mi · Under construction · 40 MW · Contested

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus in Birmingham?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus?

No lawsuit over DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of October 28, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as unknown, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus, and how big is it?

DC BLOX is the operator on record. We hold 15 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 60 MW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus," updated October 28, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/dc-blox-birmingham-al.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/dc-blox-birmingham-al, retrieved October 29, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.Birmingham Data Center - Alabama Colocation · DC BLOX · retrieved September 21, 2026
2.Nominatim geocode of 433 6th Street South, Birmingham AL 35233, returns OSM way 1019816009, building tagged type=data_center, name "DC Blox Data Center" · OpenStreetMap / Nominatim · retrieved September 9, 2026
3.PeeringDB facility record 7219 - DC BLOX BHM1, 433 6th St S, Birmingham AL 35233 · PeeringDB · retrieved September 15, 2026

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