DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Campus
DC BLOX · Birmingham, AL · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- exact
- Address as listed
- 433 6th Street South
- Coordinates
- 33.5006652, -86.8208315
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- 5 MW
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 60 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
Operator spec page states verbatim: "Up to 5MW critical load; expandable up to 60MW" and "31,000 sq. ft. initially; expandable up to 200,000 sq. ft.", with a planned expansion building of 263,000 SF. A campus-level stat block on the same page reads "4 Data Centers (Operational & in Development)", "294,000 Square Feet", "49 Critical MW (Committed & Planned)" — the 60MW and 49MW figures are stated on the same page and are not reconciled by DC BLOX; both are recorded verbatim rather than normalized. Cooling: the source's cooling list says only "N+1 cooling", "Hot aisle containment" and "High efficiency Direct Expansion (DX)", and its high-density section adds "Water-cooled rear-door heat exchangers per cabinet"; as of October 2026, it does not state how the facility rejects heat or whether any cooling water is evaporated, so the cooling type is recorded as unknown. Site is the former Ingalls Ironworks building; DC BLOX states it is the first multi-tenant data center in Alabama to hold Uptime Institute Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility. Coordinates are the OSM building polygon centroid for the parcel, which OSM independently tags as a data centre named "DC Blox Data Center". As of September 2026, investment, jobs and subsidies were not stated in any source found and had not been checked at the Jefferson County / City of Birmingham tier, so their absence here is a gap in the research, not an audited negative.
Sources and provenance
- Birmingham Data Center - Alabama Colocation · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- Nominatim geocode of 433 6th Street South, Birmingham AL 35233 — returns OSM way 1019816009, building tagged type=data_center, name "DC Blox Data Center" · source retrieved 2026-09-09
- PeeringDB facility record 7219 - DC BLOX BHM1, 433 6th St S, Birmingham AL 35233 · source retrieved 2026-09-15
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.