Canadian developer Beacon Data Centers has committed $6 billion to build the Calvert Infrastructure Hub on a 650-acre tract in northern Mobile County, Alabama. Designed specifically for AI, cloud computing, and digital services, the two-building campus will occupy 95 acres off Highway 43, leaving the remaining 555 acres as a forested buffer.
The facility features a sustainable design that completely eliminates backup diesel generators to prevent local noise and emissions, opting instead for a closed-loop water cooling system to protect local aquifers. Sourced via Alabama Power and targeting a 2027 completion date for its first phase, the project is expected to create 1,000 construction jobs and up to 250 permanent operations roles.
Venture capital firm Nadia Partners has officially launched its new data center vehicle, Beacon AI Centers.
Beacon is a data center development company focused on developing projects to power hyper-scale digital infrastructure projects (cloud and AI compute centers) in Canada.
Beacon's infrastructure developments aim to put Canada at the forefront of the AI and computing revolutions.
July 17, 2026 Alabama
A new data center could be coming to Birmingham, Alabama. Officials in Fairfield, Alabama, have announced that a colocation data center development is being proposed in the city. Details of the proposed project have not yet been disclosed, but Fairfield officials will hold a town hall later this...
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July 07, 2026 Beacon Data Centers
Canadian data center developer Beacon has unveiled plans to build a new campus in Alabama. The company has outlined proposals for the Calvert Infrastructure Hub, which would be developed near the community of Calvert in Mobile County. Calvert is an unincorporated community in southwestern...
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August 07, 2024 Alabama
Hungarian-based IT company 4iG last week, the company revealed that North Macedonia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport, Aleksandar Nikoloski, held talks with Gellért Jászai, chairman of 4iG Group over a potential expansion into the North Macedonian mobile market. "We believe that...
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May 09, 2024 Alabama
Tech giant Meta, formerly known as Facebook, this week announced plans to build an $800 million data center in Montgomery County, Alabama. The facility is located across from Hyundai’s automotive assembly plant and will join Meta’s other Alabama data center campus 190 miles north in Huntsville, a...
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September 19, 2023 Alabama
The University of Alabama (UA) will receive a new data center to house supercomputers. The UA System Board of Trustees has approved the first phase of construction for a new high-performance computing (HPC) data facility on the Tuscaloosa campus. The initiative is predicted to need $96 million in...
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