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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Western Hospitality Childersburg Campus.
Approximate source coordinates; this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Western Hospitality Partners
- Address and locality
- Childersburg · Talladega County · Alabama
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001566
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.
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 486 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $6 billion
- Announced jobs
- 200 permanent · 2,000 construction
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Water. Source describes "advanced glycol-based closed-loop cooling" intended "to minimize local water impact" — an explicitly recirculating circuit, so closed_loop under the cooling decision rule even though heat is ultimately rejected without evaporative water use. No withdrawal or consumption figure is stated.
What the source record says
⚠️ WEAKEST-SOURCED RECORD IN THIS SET — flagged deliberately. The only source successfully fetched in this run is Baxtel, a data-center marketplace aggregator, which states: Childersburg Industrial Park (formerly the Alabama Ordnance Works), 486 acres, "a $6 billion proposed investment", "advanced glycol-based closed-loop cooling", "over 200 permanent positions and approximately 2,000 construction jobs", status "Future facility in planning with land secured", year planned 2029, currently in due-diligence assessment of environmental readiness for the former military site. confidence is therefore "reported", not "confirmed". FIGURES DELIBERATELY OMITTED because no fetched source states them: a 500 MW capacity (asserted by cleanview.co and servercountry.org, neither cited here) and a ~$17 million city land-purchase agreement for the 486 acres (search-summary only). Primary coverage by Inside Climate News (23 Jan 2026, "This Small Alabama Town Was Part of the Manhattan Project...") returned HTTP 403 to both source retrieval and direct retrieval, and the WBHM syndication returned 404, so neither is cited. NEXT STEP for a maintainer: Childersburg City Council minutes should carry the purchase-service agreement for the 486 acres and would upgrade this record to confirmed with a primary document. Coordinates are the Childersburg municipal centroid, NOT the industrial-park parcel — "Childersburg Industrial Park" and "Alabama Ordnance Works" both return empty from Nominatim. Site history: the Alabama Ordnance Works / Alabama Army Ammunition Plant, a WWII-era Manhattan Project-adjacent munitions site, which is why environmental due diligence is the gating step.
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
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID western-hospitality-childersburg-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-001566
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
- Childersburg, AL · Talladega (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Western Hospitality Partners
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 486 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.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $6 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 200 permanent · 2,000 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-09
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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