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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Google Jackson County Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- Stevenson · Jackson County · Alabama
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 28 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact (provider label)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000717
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- North Alabama Electric Co-op
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 360 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $1.5 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- 24 June 2015
Provider notes
Energy. Powered by TVA (federal utility). Google covers 100% of its power and infrastructure costs. Kairos Power advanced-nuclear partnership (up to 50 MW for the AL/TN region) expected ~2035.
Water. Site sits on Guntersville Reservoir (Tennessee River), which historically cooled the coal plant; data-center cooling type not publicly confirmed.
Community. $2M Energy Impact Fund (with TVA/CAANEAL) for weatherization; $550,000 STEM-kit donation to Jackson County schools; Google reports training 130,000+ Alabamians in digital skills; watershed stewardship in the Paint Rock River watershed.
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- Announced construction jobs: The source note says the 1,000-plus construction workforce is a projection kept in the notes, not in the jobs field.
What the source record says
Campus operational since 2019 at the former TVA Widows Creek coal-plant site (~4.8 mi east of Stevenson). Recorded status is 'operational' (the campus is built and running); a $1.5B expansion announced June 15 2026 is under construction for 2026-2027 (captured in statusHistory). CAPACITY OMITTED: the widely cited 300 MW is Google's contracted new generation across the Tennessee Valley REGION, not a campus-specific figure. TVA partnership also includes a 2025 Kairos Power agreement for up to 50 MW of advanced nuclear for Google's AL/TN data centers (~2035). Construction workforce of 1,000+ is a projection (in notes, not jobs). Baxtel labels this 'Google Bridgeport'; TVA/Wikipedia/postal (35772) place Widows Creek near Stevenson - Stevenson used. 360-acre site; coordinates from the Widows Creek plant.
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
- 2015-06-24 · source-reported proposed
Google announced a $600M data center at the former TVA Widows Creek coal-plant site in Jackson County
- 2018-04 · source-reported under construction
Groundbreaking on the original $600M campus; 360-acre site off County Road 96
- 2019-01 · source-reported operational
Original campus operational with two buildings (~135,000 sq ft each)
- 2026-06-15 · source-reported under construction
$1.5B expansion announced; construction planned for 2026-2027; 1,000+ contract workers expected
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Google Blog: Alabama Investment - Jackson County Campus Expansion (June 2026) · Google
- Google to spend $1.5bn expanding Jackson County campus · Data Center Dynamics
- Google plans $1.5B Jackson County data center expansion · Alabama Reporter
- Google announces $1.5B Alabama data center expansion · 9to5Google
- Widows Creek Fossil Plant - coordinates and site history · Wikipedia
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Google's Jackson County expansion shows how data centers can work for Alabama · Yellowhammer News
- Are More Data Centers Coming To North Alabama? What Local Leaders Are Saying · Huntsville Business Journal
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-jackson-county-stevenson-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).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000717
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Stevenson, AL · Jackson (Exact location)
Roles
- Operator: Google
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.
- Announced: 24 June 2015
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2015-06-24 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2018-04 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2019-01 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-06-15 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 360 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: North Alabama Electric Co-op
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
Provider label: unknown.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $1.5 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: supported
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-28
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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