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Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus

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OperatingSupportedAI confirmedRecord updated October 22, 2026

Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus is an operating data center in Huntsville, Alabama (Madison County), operated by Meta. The public record puts it at announced 2018, 487 MW operating, a reported $1.5 billion investment. It has documented public support and no documented opposition.

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Facility record

Operating

Operator: Meta
Facility type: Data center, AI use confirmed
Location: Huntsville, Madison County, AL
Coordinates: 34.7260, -86.6470 (approximate)
Power capacity: 487 MW operating
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: $1.5 billion
Announced: 2018
Utility: TVA
Power source: Mixed
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 300 permanent
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: Supported
Source confidence: Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

December 2022
Operating
Construction paused on portion of campus for AI-optimized design change; no cancellation; campus remains operational Source: Data Center Dynamics
June 2022
Under construction
Two new buildings announced; campus to grow to 3.5 million sq ft
2021
Operating
Facility begins serving traffic
2018
Proposed
Meta (then Facebook) announces Huntsville campus; breaks ground on 970,000 sq ft facility

Opposition and litigation at this site

Not that we can document. Local officials or residents have expressed public support for Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, and no opposition, petition, or lawsuit appears in the sources this registry tracks as of October 22, 2026. Meta framed Huntsville as a 'natural fit'; since 2019 it has provided 85+ grants and $4.2M+ in sponsorships to area schools and STEM programs.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: supported means local officials or residents have expressed public support and no opposition is documented.

Meta framed Huntsville as a 'natural fit'; since 2019 it has provided 85+ grants and $4.2M+ in sponsorships to area schools and STEM programs. No organized opposition found.

Source: WHNT

Power and water

PPAs include 377 MW solar through TVA (2018), 227 MW First Solar deal in Colbert County, AL, and 150 MW NextEra Energy in Lincoln County, TN

Water is supplied by Huntsville Utilities. Volume and cooling method were not disclosed.

Notes on the record

Address: 5400 Prosperity Dr NW, Huntsville, AL. The pin is approximate and does not mark the campus, which Baxtel places in the North Huntsville Industrial Park and the Huntsville Business Journal places "in north Huntsville near Toney." Original 2.5M sq ft campus operational; expansion to 3.5M sq ft paused December 2022 for AI architecture redesign; Meta stated no intent to abandon site. Over 85 grants and $4.2M in sponsorships to Huntsville-area schools since 2019. Meta's stated investment rose to more than $1.5B with the June 2022 expansion (original 2018 build ~$750M); the 3.5M-sq-ft expansion was later paused for AI redesign, so the ultimately realized figure is uncertain. Alabama's standard data-center abatement (Chapter 9B) likely applies, but no dollar figure was found in public sources. Status is operational: the 'expansion next to be stopped amid AI pivot' story dates from December 2022 and describes a temporary construction pause of a portion of the expansion pending a redesign; Meta explicitly did not cancel the project (unlike its Denmark site). The campus itself broke ground in 2018 and has been operating since 2021; Meta's current info sheet still describes operational buildings there. The operating campus and the paused expansion phase are two different things, and the campus is what is tracked here. The 2022 partial-expansion pause is context, not a status change. As of September 2026, no source published after 2022 was found stating that the paused portion has either resumed or been cancelled, so that phase's present state is unresolved. The Huntsville Business Journal (23 September 2026) repeats the June 2022 plan to add two buildings, "bringing the campus to nearly 3.5 million square feet", without saying whether that work resumed; a local group quoted in the article asked "what phase this development is in now."

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.

Cooling method and water use
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Land area

Which document closes each gap

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.
Land area: The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.

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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.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus in Huntsville?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus?

No lawsuit over Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of October 22, 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 Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus 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 Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus, and how big is it?

Meta is the operator on record. We hold 28 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 487 MW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus," updated October 22, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/meta-huntsville-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/meta-huntsville-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.Meta's Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion next to be stopped amid AI pivot · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
2.Meta Huntsville Campus Data Center · Baxtel · retrieved July 6, 2026
3.Facebook parent company Meta invests $1.5 billion in Huntsville Data Center · WHNT · retrieved July 7, 2026
4.Meta Huntsville Data Center info sheet (PDF) · Meta Data Centers · retrieved September 21, 2026
5.Are More Data Centers Coming To North Alabama? What Local Leaders Are Saying · Huntsville Business Journal · retrieved September 28, 2026

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