Data Centers

Data centers promise jobs and tax revenue, but many voters worry about water usage, power consumption, and who really benefits.

One week after the county approved its $3.2 billion Delta Forge 2 campus, Applied Digital held its first Brookwood town hall, detailing water, power and noise plans and answering for months of silence.

A 3.2 billion dollar AI data center is coming to Brookwood, and Applied Digital is hosting a community meeting Thursday at 6 p.m. at the G.G. Hardin Center to talk about the massive project.

One of the proposed data centers that has consumed Brookwood for months now has a name, a price and an approved public cost.

Northport does not have the high-voltage transmission infrastructure that large data centers require, Mayor Dale Phillips told the city council Monday, and no company has approached the city about building one.

Brookwood's city council unanimously approved rezoning for a Youngwoo & Associates data center campus Tuesday, the second of three separate projects taking shape along a corridor in the east Tuscaloosa County town.

Communities are pushing back hard on data center expansion, and candidates are taking notice with new promises.

Emotions ran high on both sides of the City of Brookwood's town hall Tuesday afternoon as dozens of residents questioned Mayor Joe Barger and the City Council about at least three data centers proposed for the town's industrial corridor.

A major meeting today at Brookwood's G.G. Hardin Center will allow 50 citizens there to ask questions about the proposed development of several data centers there.

A tech company with Alabama land holdings just donated twenty-five thousand dollars to a gubernatorial candidate who champions data centers. Coincidence or calculated move?