Data Center Registry
Hixson Data Center (McMinnville)
McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee
Hixson Data Center (McMinnville) is a proposed data center in McMinnville, Tennessee (Warren County), operated by Hixson Data Center. The public record puts it at 25 MW planned. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Hixson Data Center
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- McMinnville, Warren County, TN
- Coordinates
- 35.6834, -85.7700 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 25 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
- Power source
- On site gas
- On site generation
- 30 MW
- 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
- Opposed
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to Hixson Data Center (McMinnville) in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.
Power and water
Bloom Energy solid-oxide fuel cells sized at 33.15 MW nameplate / 30.0 MW guaranteed, fed by Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, plus a 25 MW BESS and 8 x 4.4 MW continuous diesel generators for backup.
Direct-to-chip CDUs on a 25% propylene glycol circuit plus chilled-water AHUs and economizer heat exchangers - a recirculating water/glycol circuit, so closed_loop rather than air. No water-consumption figure is published.
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
- 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.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Hixson Data Center (McMinnville) in McMinnville?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Hixson Data Center (McMinnville) in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Hixson Data Center (McMinnville)?
No lawsuit over Hixson Data Center (McMinnville) appears in the record we track as of September 9, 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 Hixson Data Center (McMinnville) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Hixson Data Center (McMinnville) 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 Hixson Data Center (McMinnville), and how big is it?
Hixson Data Center is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 25 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Hixson Data Center (McMinnville)," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/hixson-data-center-mcminnville-tn.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/hixson-data-center-mcminnville-tn, retrieved September 14, 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.
- 1.25MW AI Data Center Planned for McMinnville · Baxtel · retrieved August 14, 2026
- 2.Amid plans for new 'high-density' AI data center campus in a Middle Tennessee city, locals push for moratorium on such facilities · WSMV News 4 Nashville · retrieved August 14, 2026
- 3.Hixson Data Center - Secure Data Room (project specifications) · Hixson Data Center · retrieved September 9, 2026
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