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Reported geography
Source-reported location for University of Alabama High Performance Computing and Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- University of Alabama
- Address and locality
- 709 Johnny Stallings Drive · Tuscaloosa · Tuscaloosa County · Alabama
- Official metro area
- Tuscaloosa, AL
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not established; source review excludes the published figure
- Source freshness
- 28 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001512
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.
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
- Alabama Power
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
- Announced
- November 2024
Provider notes
Energy. The site was chosen for proximity to Alabama Power high-voltage transmission lines, which also serve a nearby hospital and are prioritised for restoration in a major outage; the project includes a 22,500 gsf electrical substation yard.
Water. The project scope includes a dedicated chiller plant adjacent to the new building; the university's project page does not state the heat-rejection method, so no cooling type is claimed.
These reviews flag conflicting scope, inconsistent source text or support that has not been established. A withheld value may appear in the explanation, but is not displayed as an established field. The upstream row remains attributed under Sources.
- Announced investment: The source note says the $96 million total came only from an unconfirmed secondary summary, that funding figures are not recorded as investment and that the investment field is deliberately empty.
- Incentives: 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.
What the source record says
University research computing facility on the eastern edge of the Tuscaloosa campus, not a commercial colocation or hyperscale site — include or exclude according to whether Compute Atlas tracks institutional HPC. UA states verbatim: "The facility's 40,000 square feet will allow for a substantial increase in UA's computing power" and "an estimated $25 million of computing power"; it will host a "petascale computing system, meaning it will be capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second" and be the "only system in Alabama to meet the benchmarks for the Top500 list". FUNDING, NOT RECORDED AS investmentUsd: the fetched source names a U.S. Department of Commerce NIST disbursement plus an Alabama Education Trust Fund appropriation approved by the legislature and Gov. Ivey in 2023, but states NO dollar totals for either; a search summary cited $96M total / $44.5M NIST / $46M ETF, and no page stating those was fetched, so they are omitted. The $25M is computing equipment, not construction investment, so investmentUsd is deliberately empty. NO CAPACITY RECORDED: no MW figure appears in the fetched source (an aggregator lists 14.6 MW — not verified, not cited). STATUS: recorded as under_construction because completion was projected for "late 2026" and that window is now open; a maintainer should check whether it has opened, in which case this becomes operational. Coordinates are the campus centroid, not the building on the eastern edge of campus.
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
- 2024-11 · source-reported under construction
UA Board of Trustees gave Stage IV approval on 12 November 2024; "Construction can begin" with completion projected for "late 2026".
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.
- High Performance Computing and Data Center Construction Ready to Begin · University of Alabama News
- Nominatim geocode of the University of Alabama campus, Tuscaloosa · OpenStreetMap / Nominatim
- High Performance Computing and Data Center - Building Bama project page · The University of Alabama
- About — High Performance Computing and Data Center, The University of Alabama · The University of Alabama
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID university-of-alabama-hpc-tuscaloosa-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.
Operator’s own listing
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- Name as listed
- High Performance Computing and Data Center
- Address as published
- 709 Johnny Stallings Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL
Lifecycle status is not published for this listing.
Floor area: 40,000 square feet.
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Recorded information
What this page records, grouped by topic, with the source's units and qualifications. Company-reported values stay labeled as company-reported. Related listings are shown separately.
Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001512
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): mixed use
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- 709 Johnny Stallings Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: University of Alabama
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: November 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024-11 · source-reported under construction
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: Alabama Power
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
Provider label: unknown.
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 · 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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