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Data centers · Madison County, Alabama

Madison County

5 projects on record

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Projects in Madison County
DC BLOX Huntsville data centerDC BLOX9OperatingOct. 20, 2026Under 50 MW
Simple Helix Huntsville data centerSimple Helix4.5OperatingSept. 9, 2026Under 50 MW
Alabama Supercomputer CenterAlabama Supercomputer Authority—OperatingOct. 24, 2026Under 50 MW
F1 Networks Huntsville data centerF1 Networks—OperatingOct. 24, 2026Under 50 MW
Meta Huntsville data center campusMeta Platforms—OperatingDec. 19, 202250 MW+

Updates, newest first

  1. Oct. 24, 2026 Alabama Supercomputer Center · Cummings Research Park's tenant page places the Alabama Supercomputer Authority at 686 Discovery Drive and says it operates the Alabama Supercomputer Center (undated page, checked Oct. 24, 2026). (Cummings Research Park, Oct. 24, 2026)
  2. Oct. 24, 2026 Alabama Supercomputer Center · An Auburn University research facilities listing says the Huntsville center offers SGI UV and SGI Altix supercomputers and a cluster (undated page, checked Oct. 24, 2026). (Auburn University Office of the Vice President for Research, Oct. 24, 2026)
  3. Oct. 24, 2026 F1 Networks Huntsville data center · F1 Networks' colocation services page describes its Huntsville, Ala., data center location (undated page, checked Oct. 24, 2026). (F1 Networks, Oct. 24, 2026)
  4. Oct. 20, 2026 DC BLOX Huntsville data center · Company facility page lists 9 critical MW committed and planned at the Huntsville site, expandable to 13.5 MW. (DC BLOX, Oct. 20, 2026)
  5. Sept. 9, 2026 Simple Helix Huntsville data center · The company's facility page gives the West Park Loop address and lists 4.5 MW of utility, generator and UPS capacity with 2N+1 power redundancy. (Simple Helix, Sept. 9, 2026)
  6. Nov. 18, 2024 DC BLOX Huntsville data center · DC BLOX said it would build a 5 MW hyperscale edge node data center on Diamond Drive in Huntsville for an unnamed hyperscale client. (256 Today, Nov. 18, 2024)
  7. Dec. 19, 2022 Meta Huntsville data center campus · Meta paused construction on part of the Huntsville project to move to a new design. (256 Today, Dec. 19, 2022)
  8. June 14, 2022 Meta Huntsville data center campus · Meta announced two more buildings, taking the campus toward 3.5 million square feet, total Huntsville investment above $1.5 billion and more than 300 jobs. (Huntsville Business Journal, June 14, 2022)
  9. Dec. 16, 2021 Meta Huntsville data center campus · City Council considered a project agreement for a $750 million, 250-acre expansion creating a second campus north of the first, with 50 added jobs. (City of Huntsville, Dec. 30, 2021; 256 Today, Jan. 3, 2022)
  10. Sept. 15, 2021 Meta Huntsville data center campus · The Huntsville data center went live after construction that began in 2018; investment then reported at $1 billion. (WAFF 48, Sept. 15, 2021)
  11. Feb. 8, 2021 Simple Helix Huntsville data center · Simple Helix said it bought NRTC Managed Services' data center and connectivity business, adding to the multi-tenant Huntsville site it already ran. (Simple Helix, Feb. 8, 2021)
  12. Sept. 28, 2018 DC BLOX Huntsville data center · DC BLOX announced the opening of its Huntsville facility on Diamond Drive, with up to 15 MW and 46,000 square feet of data hall space at full build, and a ribbon-cutting set for Oct. 3. (DC BLOX, Sept. 28, 2018)
  13. June 14, 2018 Meta Huntsville data center campus · Governor's office and city announced a $750 million Facebook data center with about 100 jobs, backed by an estimated $86.25 million Jobs Act investment credit. (Office of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, June 14, 2018; City of Huntsville, June 14, 2018)
  14. May 24, 2018 Meta Huntsville data center campus · Huntsville City Council unanimously approved selling 340 acres in the North Huntsville Industrial Park to Starbelt LLC for $8.5 million. (City of Huntsville, June 14, 2018)
  15. July 14, 2017 Simple Helix Huntsville data center · Simple Helix announced it had opened a 1.1 MW Tier III data center in Huntsville with two separate data halls. (Simple Helix via PR Newswire, July 14, 2017)

Statewide

Act 2012-210 (HB 154, 2012), the Data Processing Center Economic Incentive Enhancement Act, provided property tax and construction-related sales and use tax abatements for data processing centers (and warehousing and storage facilities) under Title 40, Chapter 9B, and amended income tax credit Sections 40-18-190 and 40-18-193. (LegiScan, April 19, 2012) Under Revenue Department rule 810-4-3-.03, abatable data center property includes servers, software, network and storage gear, cooling and power infrastructure such as substations and backup generation, and colocation tenants named in the abatement agreement get the same breaks as the owner. (Alabama Department of Revenue, Dec. 1, 2021) Act 2023-34 (Rep. Danny Garrett and Sen. Greg Reed; Senate version SB 164), part of the Enhancing Alabama's Economic Progress Act signed April 20, 2023, moved the end date for the 2012 data center incentives from Dec. 31, 2023, to July 31, 2028, along with Jobs Act and Growing Alabama extensions. (Alabama Legislature (ALISON), April 4, 2023; Alabama Senate Republican Caucus, 2023) HB 399 (2026, Rep. Leigh Hulsey; similar to SB 265), enacted April 17, 2026 and effective June 1, 2026, caps data center abatements at 20 years for abatements granted from Jan. 1, 2027 (up to 30 with a binding local-investment agreement), ends state abatements at placed-in-service and collects state sales tax on certain construction and power-equipment purchases for centers of 100 MW or more, sends that sales tax to the General Fund, and extends the application deadline to July 31, 2032; projects executed earlier, and their expansions for 10 years, are exempt. (LegiScan, April 17, 2026; Alabama Legislature (ALISON), March 18, 2026; Alabama Legislative Services Agency (ALISON), March 17, 2026) Act 2026-610 (SB 270, 2026, Sen. Bell), effective Oct. 1, 2026, adds Code Section 37-4-22.1: a utility contract with a data center expecting 150 MW or more of peak demand is in the public interest when the Public Service Commission finds it is expected to recover the incremental cost of serving that customer from the customer and to benefit other ratepayers. (Alabama Legislature (ALISON), April 9, 2026; ABC 33/40 (WBMA), Oct. 6, 2026) The PSC opened a generic proceeding on Alabama Power large-load data center contracts by order of July 8, 2026 (initially proposing deemed approval after 60 days), and on Oct. 6, 2026 adopted rules requiring a public summary petition, confidential filing of the full contract and cost analysis with staff and the Attorney General, and a commission vote within 90 days or the contract is deemed approved. (Alabama Public Service Commission, July 8, 2026; ABC 33/40 (WBMA), Oct. 6, 2026) Alabama Power says its large-load data center agreements include minimum bills, minimum terms, upfront payments and collateral, and that the PSC lengthened the post-filing approval period from 10 to 45 days in July 2026 for contracts reviewed before Act 610 took effect Oct. 1. (Alabama Power, Oct. 24, 2026) In north Alabama's TVA territory, the TVA board on Aug. 20, 2026 approved a higher wholesale rate for large data centers, effective Oct. 1, 2026, expected to raise their bills about 10% phased over three fiscal years, so they cover the full cost of serving them. (Local 3 News (WRCB), Aug. 21, 2026) Alabama data centers →