Data Center Registry
DC BLOX Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street)
Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee · All 15 DC BLOX sites
DC BLOX Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street) is an operating data center in Chattanooga, Tennessee (Hamilton County), operated by DC BLOX. The public record puts it at 1 MW planned.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- DC BLOX
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use mixed
- Location
- 807 E 16th Street, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN, 37408
- Coordinates
- 35.0315, -85.2976 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 1 MW operating; 1 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
- Closed loop
- 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 September 21, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over DC BLOX Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street) in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee 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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Power and water
N+1 cooling with a 280-ton air-cooled chiller plant and a 240-ton high-efficiency dry cooler plant (recirculating chilled-water circuit rejecting heat to air); TFP: not enough power to run AI servers
Notes on the record
Colocation facility DC BLOX has operated at this site since 2017; the Times Free Press calls the 9,000 sq ft windowless building the city's largest data center. DC BLOX vice president Bill Thomson states its maximum power capacity is 1 megawatt and it typically runs at about 20% of that, and that this capacity is not enough to run AI servers, hence aiClassification mixed_use rather than likely. The 1 MW figure is recorded as capacityMw.planned because it is a maximum rating, not a measured operating load. CONFIRMED ABSENCES from the same interview (2026-08-23): the site was zoned for light industry and did not require data-center-specific permitting, and DC BLOX has no plans to expand its Chattanooga footprint; its AI-oriented builds are elsewhere in the region. Hamilton County's one-year data-center moratorium covers only unincorporated parts of the county, so it does not reach this site. Coordinates are a geocode of the street address.
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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Our reporting on this site
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the DC BLOX Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street) data center in Chattanooga?
Nothing on record as of September 21, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over DC BLOX Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street) in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee 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.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the DC BLOX Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street) data center?
No lawsuit over DC BLOX Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street) appears in the record we track as of September 21, 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 Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street) use?
No water withdrawal figure for DC BLOX Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, 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 Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street), 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 1 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "DC BLOX Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street)," updated September 21, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/dcblox-chattanooga-e16th-tn.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/dcblox-chattanooga-e16th-tn, retrieved October 1, 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.Where are data centers in Chattanooga region? Facilities vary widely. · Chattanooga Times Free Press (archived) · retrieved September 21, 2026
- 2.PeeringDB facility 7217, DC BLOX CHA1, 807 E 16th St, Chattanooga, TN 37408 · PeeringDB · retrieved September 14, 2026
- 3.Chattanooga Data Center, DC BLOX: 807 East 16th Street; up to 1 MW critical load expandable to 3.5 MW; 8,000 sq ft expandable to 16,000; 280-ton air-cooled chiller plant and 240-ton dry cooler plant · DC BLOX · retrieved September 21, 2026
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