Data Center Registry
Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail)
Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee
Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail) is a proposed data center in Chattanooga, Tennessee (Hamilton County), operated by Urban Story Ventures. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Urban Story Ventures
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN
- Coordinates
- 35.0457, -85.3095 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- 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 from a public source
- 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 Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail) in Chattanooga, Hamilton 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.
Notes on the record
Status re-checked 2026-09-09: no change, stays proposed. Hamilton County commissioners approved a 35-year lease at $375,000/yr in March 2026, but a lease approval is not a construction permit and the commission capped data storage at 12,000 sq ft of the 142,000 sq ft building. investmentUsd deliberately left unset: the only published figure is a range ($80-100M renovation estimate), which is not a single reportable value.
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.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- 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 Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail) data center in Chattanooga?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail) in Chattanooga, Hamilton 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 Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail) data center?
No lawsuit over Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail) 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 Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail), and how big is it?
Urban Story Ventures is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail)," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/jailhouse-studios-chattanooga-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/jailhouse-studios-chattanooga-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.City's New Jailhouse Studios: The World's First Quantum-Ready Sovereign Data, Processing, and AI Center with an Integrated Creator Campus · Urban Story Ventures · retrieved August 14, 2026
- 2.Residents rally against proposed AI data center inside old Hamilton County Jail · NewsChannel 9 (WTVC Chattanooga) · retrieved August 14, 2026
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