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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Applied Digital Delta Forge 2 (Brookwood AI Factory Campus).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Applied Digital
- Address and locality
- Brookwood · Tuscaloosa County · Alabama
- Official metro area
- Tuscaloosa, AL
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 210 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- 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-001754
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
- Not established
- Announced investment
- $3.2 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- 8 June 2026
Provider notes
Water. The operator says the campus uses its proprietary 'waterless cooling'. The cooling method is not otherwise specified.
Community. Brookwood's mayor backs the project. Some Brookwood-area residents have raised concerns about public disclosure and about construction runoff into Hurricane Creek, which feeds the Black Warrior River.
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- Land area: Row distinguishes a roughly 160-acre site from the surrounding 1,300-acre tract.
- Announced permanent jobs: No row note or source label states this count.
- Announced construction jobs: No row note or source label states this count.
- Incentives: Row/source labels mention incentives but do not support the stated program terms or amount.
What the source record says
The site is about 160 acres within a 1,300-acre tract north of the 17,000 block of Brookwood Parkway. The tenant is an unnamed U.S. hyperscaler. This is separate from the tracked Youngwoo & Associates 'Project Brookwood', which lies west of the Applied Digital tract. Lat/lon is the Brookwood town centroid (OSM Nominatim), not the parcel.
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
- 2026-09-24 · source-reported proposed
Tuscaloosa County EDA approved incentives. Construction is scheduled to start Oct 1, 2026 and finish by Dec 31, 2028.
Sources and attribution
- Applied Digital Signs 210 MW Lease at Delta Forge 2 · Applied Digital
- County Board Unanimously OKs Incentives for $3.2 Billion Applied Digital Data Center in Brookwood · Tuscaloosa Thread
- $3.2 Billion AI Data Center Campus Announced in Brookwood · ABC 33/40
- Tuscaloosa County Approves Incentives for $3.2 Billion AI Data Center Near Brookwood · Birmingham Free Press
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1+reviewed-2610e0556b3d, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID applied-digital-delta-forge-2-brookwood-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-001754
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
- Brookwood, AL · Tuscaloosa (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Applied Digital
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.
- Announced: 8 June 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-09-24 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 210 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
The provider reports water information but no cooling type.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $3.2 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
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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