Data Center Registry
Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus
Childersburg, Talladega County, Alabama · All 3 Western Hospitality Partners sites
Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus is a proposed data center in Childersburg, Alabama (Talladega County), operated by Western Hospitality Partners. The public record puts it at 486 acres, a reported $6 billion investment.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Western Hospitality Partners
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Childersburg, Talladega County, AL
- Coordinates
- 33.2782, -86.3550 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 486 acres
- Investment
- $6 billion
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 200 permanent; 2,000 construction
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus in Childersburg, Talladega County, Alabama appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Source describes "advanced glycol-based closed-loop cooling" intended "to minimize local water impact", an explicitly recirculating circuit, so closed_loop under the cooling decision rule even though heat is ultimately rejected without evaporative water use. No withdrawal or consumption figure is stated.
Notes on the record
⚠️ WEAKEST-SOURCED RECORD IN THIS SET, flagged deliberately. The only source successfully fetched in this run is Baxtel, a data-center marketplace aggregator, which states: Childersburg Industrial Park (formerly the Alabama Ordnance Works), 486 acres, "a $6 billion proposed investment", "advanced glycol-based closed-loop cooling", "over 200 permanent positions and approximately 2,000 construction jobs", status "Future facility in planning with land secured", year planned 2029, currently in due-diligence assessment of environmental readiness for the former military site. confidence is therefore "reported", not "confirmed". FIGURES DELIBERATELY OMITTED because no fetched source states them: a 500 MW capacity (asserted by cleanview.co and servercountry.org, neither cited here) and a ~$17 million city land-purchase agreement for the 486 acres (search-summary only). Primary coverage by Inside Climate News (23 Jan 2026, "This Small Alabama Town Was Part of the Manhattan Project...") returned HTTP 403 to both WebFetch and curl, and the WBHM syndication returned 404, so neither is cited. NEXT STEP for a maintainer: Childersburg City Council minutes should carry the purchase-service agreement for the 486 acres and would upgrade this record to confirmed with a primary document. Coordinates are the Childersburg municipal centroid, NOT the industrial-park parcel, "Childersburg Industrial Park" and "Alabama Ordnance Works" both return empty from Nominatim. Site history: the Alabama Ordnance Works / Alabama Army Ammunition Plant, a WWII-era Manhattan Project-adjacent munitions site, which is why environmental due diligence is the gating step.
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
- How the community has received it
- 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.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in 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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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.
- Digi Power X Columbiana AI Data Center · Columbiana · Digi Power X17 mi · Under construction · 40 MW · Contested
- Nebius Birmingham AI Factory (BHM01) · Birmingham · Nebius Group29 mi · Under construction · 300 MW · In litigation
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus in Childersburg?
Nothing on record as of September 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus in Childersburg, Talladega County, Alabama appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus?
No lawsuit over Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus 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 Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus 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 Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus, and how big is it?
Western Hospitality Partners is the operator on record. We hold 3 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 486 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/western-hospitality-childersburg-al.
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/western-hospitality-childersburg-al, 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.Western Hospitality: Childersburg Campus · Baxtel · retrieved September 9, 2026
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