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Swift Willow Westover Data Center Campus

Westover, Shelby County, Alabama

ProposedMixed receptionRecord updated September 22, 2026

Swift Willow Westover Data Center Campus is a proposed data center in Westover, Alabama (Shelby County), operated by Swift Willow Property, LLC. The public record puts it at 437 acres. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: Swift Willow Property, LLC
Facility type: Data center
Location: Westover, Shelby County, AL
Coordinates: 33.3596, -86.5102 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: 437 acres
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: 200 permanent; 1,000 construction
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: Mixed reception
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

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.

August 2026
Proposed
Developers presented plans for at least two data center buildings on 124 acres of the site at an August 2026 town hall; the Westover City Council then unanimously approved a six-month moratorium on data centers covering this proposal and any others. Source: WBRC

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Swift Willow Westover Data Center Campus in Westover, Shelby County, Alabama appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Developer-hosted town hall on 2026-08-20 drew mixed reaction, some residents reconsidered opposition after seeing the plans, others remained firmly opposed on environmental and community-character grounds.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

Developer-hosted town hall on 2026-08-20 drew mixed reaction, some residents reconsidered opposition after seeing the plans, others remained firmly opposed on environmental and community-character grounds. The Westover city council unanimously approved a six-month data center moratorium on 2026-08-18 that covers this site, after a memorandum of understanding with the developer 'just didn't work out'.

Source: WBRC

Notes on the record

City records show discussions began in May 2024; the City Council rezoned the roughly 437-acre tract from Highway Commercial/Employment Center-Office/Rural Residential to Employment Center-Industrial on February 4, 2025, the Planning Commission added "Data Center" as a permitted use in that district on April 28, 2025, and Swift Willow Property, LLC took title from Westervelt Realty in June 2025 for $6,565,238.57. Principals named in records include Gregory DeBacker and Hugh Williamson, with Swift Data Development (petitioner Jeremy Wolf) as a related entity. Developers described the site as more than 450 acres along Highway 280 and projected 500 to 1,000 construction jobs and up to 200 permanent jobs; those are ranges, not point estimates, so no jobs figures are recorded here. No MW or investment figure has been disclosed. Coordinate is a Cheshire Drive road anchor in Westover, not a surveyed parcel centroid.

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
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.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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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 Swift Willow Westover Data Center Campus in Westover?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Swift Willow Westover Data Center Campus?

No lawsuit over Swift Willow Westover Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of September 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 Swift Willow Westover Data Center Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Swift Willow Westover 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 Swift Willow Westover Data Center Campus, and how big is it?

Swift Willow Property, LLC is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 437 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Swift Willow Westover Data Center Campus," updated September 22, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/swift-willow-westover-al.

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/swift-willow-westover-al, 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.How did Westover's proposed data center get here? Records show the timeline · ABC 33/40 · retrieved September 15, 2026
2.Westover residents hear from developers during data center town hall · WBRC · retrieved September 22, 2026
3.Westover approves 6-month moratorium on data centers · WBRC · retrieved September 22, 2026

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