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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Meta Huntsville Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Meta
- Address and locality
- Huntsville · Madison County · Alabama
- Official metro area
- Huntsville, AL
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not established; source review excludes the published figure
- Source freshness
- 28 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000936
Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld. The upstream row remains attributed below, but this value is not repeated as site capacity.
The underlying provider record is retained. These notes add source-attributed context and flag conflicts; any withheld value is explained separately. They do not certify current operation.
- Source review · reviewed 2026-10-11: The City of Huntsville's June 14, 2018 release says the council unanimously approved the May 24 sale of 340 acres in North Huntsville Industrial Park to Starbelt LLC for $8.5 million. The city and governor describe Starbelt as Facebook's project entity. The governor's June 14 release describes an Alabama Jobs Act investment credit with an estimated value of $86.25 million over ten years for the original project. These are historical land-sale and incentive statements, not evidence of current title, incentives received, building permission or operation. No street correction is admitted from these releases.
- City of Huntsville, Alabama — 2018-06-14 · source retrieved 2026-10-10
- Office of the Governor of Alabama — 2018-06-14 · source retrieved 2026-10-10
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
- TVA
- Power source
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Not established
- Announced investment
- $1.5 billion
- Announced jobs
- 300 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: supported
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- 2018
Provider notes
Energy. 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
Water. Water is supplied by Huntsville Utilities. Volume and cooling method were not disclosed.
Community. Meta framed Huntsville as a 'natural fit'; since 2019 it has provided 85+ grants and $4.2M+ in sponsorships to area schools and STEM programs. No organized opposition found.
What the source record says
Address: 5400 Prosperity Dr NW, Huntsville, AL. Coordinates are approximate for Cummings Research Park area. 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 RE-CHECK, NO CHANGE - operational is correct and the record's cited source is being misread. The 'expansion next to be stopped amid AI pivot' story dates from December 2022, not from the present, and what it describes is 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. Operating campus and paused expansion phase are two different things, and this record tracks the campus. Recommend keeping status operational and recording the 2022 partial-expansion pause as statusHistory context rather than a status change. I found no source published after 2022 stating the paused portion has either resumed or been cancelled, so that phase's present state is genuinely unresolved.
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
- 2018 · source-reported proposed
Meta (then Facebook) announces Huntsville campus; breaks ground on 970,000 sq ft facility
- 2021 · source-reported operational
Facility begins serving traffic
- 2022-06 · source-reported under construction
Two new buildings announced; campus to grow to 3.5 million sq ft
- 2022-12 · source-reported operational
Construction paused on portion of campus for AI-optimized design change; no cancellation; campus remains operational
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.
- Meta's Huntsville, Alabama, data center expansion next to be stopped amid AI pivot · Data Center Dynamics
- Meta Huntsville Campus Data Center · Baxtel
- Facebook parent company Meta invests $1.5 billion in Huntsville Data Center · WHNT
- Meta Huntsville Data Center info sheet (PDF) · Meta Data Centers
- 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 meta-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).
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-000936
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): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Huntsville, AL · Madison (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Meta
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: 2018
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2018 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2021 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2022-06 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2022-12 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not established; source review excludes the published figure
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: TVA
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Mixed
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
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.
- Announced jobs: 300 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover 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: Area, acreage and buildings · 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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