Patmos Fairfield Colocation Data Center
Patmos · Fairfield, AL · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 33.4916836, -86.9150283
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Alabama Power
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 45 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
Retrofit of a former Walmart Supercenter in Fairfield into a colocation data center. WBRC states: "Patmos would bring around 50 long-term jobs, plus roughly 120 construction workers during the build" and "If approved, construction could start in September, with the first phase completed by January or February 2027 and a larger expansion planned for 2028." WBRC gives no capacity or investment figure. WBHM (14 Aug 2026) reports that Patmos expects an initial 20 MW phase costing about $150 million and a site that eventually reaches 45 MW; the record carries the 45 MW full-buildout figure, and the $150 million investment figure covers only the initial 20 MW phase. WBRC attributes about 120 construction workers to the Fairfield build, while WBHM reports that figure as the peak construction workforce at Patmos's Kansas City project, so no construction-job figure is recorded. As of October 2026, the only street address, 7201 Aaron Aronov Dr, comes from the Baxtel listing; neither news account repeats it, and it geocodes to Western Hills Mall in OpenStreetMap, so it is not confirmed as the former Walmart and no street address is recorded. Coordinates are the Fairfield municipal centroid, not the building: the news sources identify the site only as "the former Walmart Supercenter" without a street address, and as of September 2026 no Walmart-named or former-retail building was found in OpenStreetMap within Fairfield's bounds. Status: the record is listed as proposed — construction was conditional on approval as of 13 Aug 2026, and as of September 2026 it was not confirmed whether the September 2026 groundbreaking happened. This is a genuinely distinct site from QTS Bessemer (Project Marvel) — different operator, different city — though both sit in the same Birmingham-west corridor.
20 MW initial buildout, expanding to 45 MW.
Sources and provenance
- Hundreds pack Fairfield town hall over proposed data center inside former Walmart (13 Aug 2026) · source retrieved 2026-09-09
- Nominatim geocode of Fairfield, Jefferson County, Alabama (municipal centroid) · source retrieved 2026-09-09
- New data center plans to move quickly in Fairfield. Residents have questions · source retrieved 2026-09-28
- Patmos: Fairfield, AL · source retrieved 2026-10-18
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.