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Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus

Meta · Huntsville, AL · United States

Facility record

Lifecycle
OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
Location precision
approximate
Address as listed
Not published
Coordinates
34.726, -86.647
Serving utility, source-reported
TVA
Operational capacity, source-reported
487 MW
Planned capacity, source-reported
Not published
Source record updated
2026-10-22

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

    Meta (then Facebook) announces Huntsville campus; breaks ground on 970,000 sq ft facility

  2. Operational

    Facility begins serving traffic

  3. Under construction

    Two new buildings announced; campus to grow to 3.5 million sq ft

  4. Operational

    Construction paused on portion of campus for AI-optimized design change; no cancellation; campus remains operational

    Underlying source

Source notes

Address: 5400 Prosperity Dr NW, Huntsville, AL. The pin is approximate and does not mark the campus, which Baxtel places in the North Huntsville Industrial Park and the Huntsville Business Journal places "in north Huntsville near Toney." Original 2.5M sq ft campus operational; expansion to 3.5M sq ft paused December 2022 for AI architecture redesign; Meta stated no intent to abandon site. Over 85 grants and $4.2M in sponsorships to Huntsville-area schools since 2019. Meta's stated investment rose to more than $1.5B with the June 2022 expansion (original 2018 build ~$750M); the 3.5M-sq-ft expansion was later paused for AI redesign, so the ultimately realized figure is uncertain. Alabama's standard data-center abatement (Chapter 9B) likely applies, but no dollar figure was found in public sources. Status is operational: the 'expansion next to be stopped amid AI pivot' story dates from December 2022 and describes a temporary construction pause of a portion of the expansion pending a redesign; Meta explicitly did not cancel the project (unlike its Denmark site). The campus itself broke ground in 2018 and has been operating since 2021; Meta's current info sheet still describes operational buildings there. The operating campus and the paused expansion phase are two different things, and the campus is what is tracked here. The 2022 partial-expansion pause is context, not a status change. As of September 2026, no source published after 2022 was found stating that the paused portion has either resumed or been cancelled, so that phase's present state is unresolved. The Huntsville Business Journal (23 September 2026) repeats the June 2022 plan to add two buildings, "bringing the campus to nearly 3.5 million square feet", without saying whether that work resumed; a local group quoted in the article asked "what phase this development is in now."

PPAs include 377 MW solar through TVA (2018), 227 MW First Solar deal in Colbert County, AL, and 150 MW NextEra Energy in Lincoln County, TN

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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