DC BLOX Chattanooga (807 E 16th Street)
DC BLOX · Chattanooga, TN · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 807 E 16th Street
- Coordinates
- 35.0314592, -85.2975821
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- 1 MW
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 1 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-21
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
Colocation facility DC BLOX has operated at this site since 2017; the Times Free Press calls the 9,000 sq ft windowless building the city's largest data center. DC BLOX vice president Bill Thomson states its maximum power capacity is 1 megawatt and it typically runs at about 20% of that, and that this capacity is not enough to run AI servers — hence the AI classification is mixed-use rather than likely. The 1 MW maximum rating, which DC BLOX's Chattanooga page gives as up to 1MW critical load (as of October 2026), is recorded as both planned and operational capacity; it is a rating, not a measured operating load. Confirmed absences from the same interview (2026-08-23): the site was zoned for light industry and did not require data-center-specific permitting, and DC BLOX has no plans to expand its Chattanooga footprint; its AI-oriented builds are elsewhere in the region. As of October 2026, DC BLOX's Chattanooga page describes the building as 8,000 sq ft initially, expandable up to 16,000 sq ft, and the power as expandable up to 3.5MW; these are stated expansion ceilings rather than an announced expansion, and the 3.5MW is not recorded as capacity. Hamilton County's one-year data-center moratorium covers only unincorporated parts of the county, so it does not reach this site. Coordinates are a geocode of the street address.
Sources and provenance
- Where are data centers in Chattanooga region? Facilities vary widely. · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- PeeringDB facility 7217 — DC BLOX CHA1, 807 E 16th St, Chattanooga, TN 37408 · source retrieved 2026-09-14
- Chattanooga Data Center — DC BLOX: 807 East 16th Street; up to 1 MW critical load expandable to 3.5 MW; 8,000 sq ft expandable to 16,000; 280-ton air-cooled chiller plant and 240-ton dry cooler plant · source retrieved 2026-09-21
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.