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Digi Power X Columbiana AI Data Center

Digi Power X · Columbiana, AL · United States

Facility record

Lifecycle
Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
Location precision
approximate
Address as listed
130 Industrial Parkway
Coordinates
33.1810918, -86.622753
Serving utility, source-reported
Alabama Power
Operational capacity, source-reported
Not published
Planned capacity, source-reported
40 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

  1. Proposed

    Digihost/Digi Power X announced the former Grede Foundry site, in use as a bitcoin-mining operation since 2022, would be converted to a data center.

    Underlying source
  2. Under construction

    "construction on the Columbiana facility is set to begin in May 2026 and be completed by March 2027 for service to begin in April 2027"

    Underlying source

Source notes

Subsidy: the Columbiana City Council "unanimously rejected a tax abatement proposal for Digi Power X", and the article states "The only governmental body that has the jurisdiction to give an abatement on taxes for the Columbiana data center is the City Council." So as of 29 May 2026 this site had no local tax abatement, and by the reporter's account no other body could have granted one. Digi Power X had requested abatement on "all state and local non-educational property taxes on the project's industrial development property" plus construction-related transaction taxes through 2027. WBRC reported on 24 July 2026 that the council had later voted to grant DigiPowerX "a 12-month sales and use tax abatement, but only during construction to help cover the cost of equipment for expansion", in return for a $3.5 million "community impact payment" to the city. Anchor tenant: 10-year master services agreement with Cerebras Systems for colocation of the 40 MW AI data center, "valued at approximately $1.1 billion with potential for the contract value to reach $2.5 billion, inclusive of renewal terms" — that $1.1B is contract value, not capital investment, and is not recorded as the investment figure; the $371.5M figure is the stated "total investment ... in building, machinery and personal property" from the abatement filing. Bham Now (June 2026) instead reports a 55 MW two-phase plan, with 22 MW and $176 million for the first phase and $440 million in total; those figures differ from the 40 MW colocation agreement and the abatement-filing figure and are not recorded. Jobs: "Digi Power X plans to start out with two jobs at a total annual payroll of $200,000 and to expand to 45 permanent jobs by year three with a total payroll of $4.5 million" — the 2 is the year-one headcount, not a construction workforce, so no construction job count is recorded; the source states no construction-worker count. Site history: property purchased by Digihost Technology Inc from Grede II LLC on 21 June 2022 after the Grede Foundry closed in 2020, and run as a bitcoin-mining operation until the January 2025 conversion announcement. Air emissions to be monitored by ADEM. Coordinates are the OSM industrial-park polygon centroid for Industrial Parkway, not a confirmed parcel footprint.

"Digi Power X has an agreement with Alabama Power for the facility and plans to build out in two phases, with Phase 1 comprising 15 megawatts of information technology load and Phase 2 delivering 25 MW for a combined total of 40 MW." The article adds that "The property already supported 22 MW through a substation that was left over from the operation of the Grede Foundry."

Sources and provenance

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.

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