Data Center Registry

Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail)

Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee

ProposedOpposedRecord updated September 21, 2026

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: air
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 as of 2026-09-09: no change; the record stays listed as 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. An investment figure is deliberately not recorded: 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
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.
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?

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 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 Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Jailhouse Studios (former Hamilton County Jail) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as air, 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 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 21, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/jailhouse-studios-chattanooga-tn.

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/jailhouse-studios-chattanooga-tn, 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.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 September 21, 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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