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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Alabama Supercomputer Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Alabama Supercomputer Authority
- Address and locality
- 686 Discovery Drive NW · Huntsville · Madison County · Alabama · 35806
- Official metro area
- Huntsville, AL
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000029
What the source record says
State-funded research computing facility in Cummings Research Park, operated by the Alabama Supercomputer Authority (a state corporation founded in 1989) alongside the Alabama Research and Education Network. The building spans nearly 24,000 square feet and houses the authority's Security Operations Center, Network Operations Center, Data Recovery Center, data center and operations offices. ASA's business office is at 445 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery - the same street address as the separately tracked RSA Dexter Avenue Datacenter, which is a different facility. Power and cooling capacity are not published. Single-source record: the operator's own facility page. Coordinate is the OpenStreetMap feature at the stated address.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 1987-10 · source-reported operational
The building was completed in October 1987 with the installation of the first supercomputer, a Cray X-MP; ten supercomputers have since been installed, most recently ASA-X in October 2023.
Sources and attribution
- Alabama Supercomputer Center · Alabama Supercomputer Authority
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID alabama-supercomputer-center-huntsville-al. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000029
Licensed directory row.
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Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- 686 Discovery Drive NW, Huntsville, AL 35806 · Madison (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: Alabama Supercomputer Authority
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 1987-10 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-15
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Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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