Mobile County

Moratoriums and bans

1. Aug. 4, 2026 Prichard: Moratorium. Council approved a six-month data center moratorium on Aug. 4; on Aug. 20 it moved to invalidate a July 30 building permit for the Edged project, saying the site plan had skipped required planning commission review. (NBC 15 (WPMI), Aug. 31, 2026)

Updates, newest first

1. Oct. 24, 2026 Lumen Mobile colocation · Lumen's colocation location data sheet lists Mobile, Ala., as a colocation site (sheet carries a 2025 copyright; checked Oct. 24, 2026). (Lumen Technologies, 2025)
2. Sept. 29, 2026 Edged Prichard data center (Project Gateway) · The developer's lawyer said the Planning Commission had approved the site plan and construction would take about 18 months. (FOX10 News (WALA), Sept. 30, 2026)
3. Sept. 10, 2026 Edged Prichard data center (Project Gateway) · The council voted unanimously to refer to its attorney a letter from the developer's lawyer, who wrote that the company would sue if the city tried to block its permit. The council attorney said the moratorium did not apply to this project but that Planning Commission review was required if the law called for it. (FOX10 News (WALA), Sept. 10, 2026)
4. Aug. 20, 2026 Edged Prichard data center (Project Gateway) · At a council meeting, members took steps to invalidate the building permit and refund about $224,000 in fees, saying the site plan had not gone through a required planning commission review. (NBC 15 (WPMI), Aug. 31, 2026)
5. Aug. 10, 2026 Edged Prichard data center (Project Gateway) · Trade press reported that the council president had introduced a moratorium resolution that could last up to 480 days. It also reported that the company described the 8 MW facility mainly as a networking hub. (DatacenterDynamics, Aug. 10, 2026)
6. Aug. 4, 2026 Edged Prichard data center (Project Gateway) · The city council approved a temporary moratorium on data centers. (NBC 15 (WPMI), Aug. 31, 2026; Lagniappe, Aug. 2026)
7. Aug. 4, 2026 Prichard: Moratorium · Council approved a six-month data center moratorium on Aug. 4; on Aug. 20 it moved to invalidate a July 30 building permit for the Edged project, saying the site plan had skipped required planning commission review. (NBC 15 (WPMI), Aug. 31, 2026)
8. July 30, 2026 Edged Prichard data center (Project Gateway) · The city issued a building permit for the data center, a few days before the council's moratorium vote. (NBC 15 (WPMI), Aug. 31, 2026; Lagniappe, Aug. 2026)
9. July 28, 2026 Calvert Infrastructure Hub · At a Mobile County Commission meeting, the commission president invited utility and chamber representatives to respond to residents; commissioners had said they lack authority to act on the project. (Lagniappe, July 29, 2026; AL.com (via GovTech), Aug. 5, 2026)
10. July 6, 2026 Calvert Infrastructure Hub · Trade press reports the Canadian firm's plan for the Calvert campus, with the first building possibly live in 2027. (DatacenterDynamics, July 6, 2026)
11. July 3, 2026 Calvert Infrastructure Hub · Local TV reports the $6 billion estimate, up to 1,000 peak construction jobs and about 250 permanent jobs, and resident questions about land use and utilities. (NBC 15 (WPMI), July 3, 2026; FOX10 (WALA), July 5, 2026)
12. June 17, 2026 Calvert Infrastructure Hub · Beacon holds a community open house on the proposal; more than 50 people attend. (NBC 15 (WPMI), July 3, 2026)
13. June 12, 2026 Calvert Infrastructure Hub · Beacon posts a project page describing a two-building campus on 95 developed acres of a 650-acre parcel, served from Alabama Power's existing lines. (Beacon Data Centers, June 12, 2026)
14. April 7, 2026 Edged Prichard data center (Project Gateway) · The City of Prichard held a community meeting on the proposal, where the developer said the project would bring about 20 jobs. (FOX10 News (WALA), April 11, 2026)

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 →