The DC BLOX data center is built on the 27-acre, former Trinity Steel site in downtown Birmingham. The first phase which was built in 2019 has 31,000 sqft of space.
The company has completed a redesign of its data hall at the facility in 2024 so that it can house up to 240 standard retail cabinets and 36 HPC-capable cabinets, each supporting up to 35kW of power. The work has added an additional IT capacity of 2.4MW to the data center.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.06 miles | Lumen Birmingham 401 6th | |
| 0.10 miles | DC BLOX: BHM1-B |
This facility will be part of DC Blox's Birmingham Campus in Alabama.
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| 1.37 miles | Southern Telecom Birmingham | |
| 1.44 miles | Lumen Birmingham (Park Place) | |
| 2.45 miles | C Spire Birmingham | |
| 6.19 miles | Nebius: Birmingham, Alabama |
Nebius is developing a major high-performance computing facility in Birmingham, Alabama, designated as BHM01. This site is being branded as an "AI Factory," specifically designed to support large-scale artificial intelligence workloads.
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| 16.70 miles | QTS: Project Marvel |
The Bessemer City Council has officially cleared the way for "Project Marvel," a massive 1,600-acre data center campus proposed by Logistic Land Investments LLC.
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The campus could potentially reachj $785 million
Photo taken in May 2019
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DC BLOX is a digital infrastructure provider in the Southeastern United States. The company provides colocation, network connectivity and dark fiber services for enterprises and carriers, and operates a cable landing station in South Carolina with a second station planned in Florida.
It is developing hyperscale data center campuses in the Atlanta metro area. In 2025 the company announced additional subsea capacity and secured project financing to advance Atlanta West.
January 16, 2026 DC BLOX
US data center operator DC Blox has secured $240 million in holdco financing from BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners. Holdco financing is a financial instrument that allows an investing parent company like GIP to raise debt on behalf of a subsidiary like DC Blox. “We are excited...
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August 13, 2025 DC BLOX
US data center firm DC Blox this week announced it has closed $1.15 billion in green loan financing for the construction of a data center campus in Douglas County, Georgia. The funds will support the development of a 120MW data center and include campus expansion to support an additional 80MW,...
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October 10, 2024 DC BLOX
US data center operator DC Blox this week announced it has raised incremental equity capital from its existing and new investors, led by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. The funding will enable the deployment of more than $1 billion of total capital to finance future construction and the...
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March 09, 2024 DC BLOX
DC Blox has expanded its data center in Birmingham, Alabama, to cater for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, adding additional IT capacity of 2.4MW. The company said it has completed a redesign of its data hall at the facility so that it can house up to 240 standard retail cabinets and...
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December 15, 2023 DC BLOX
US operator DC Blox announced this week that it had acquired 72 acres of land in Conyers, southeast of Atlanta in Rockdale County, Georgia, for a new data center campus. Once completed, this facility will feature 750,000 square feet (69,675 sqm) of space with 216MW of total power committed by...
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