DC BLOX Birmingham

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433 6th St S

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Fully operational facility

Birmingham

Metro
Alabama

State
Southeast US

Region
United States

Country
North America

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Americas

Region

DC BLOX Birmingham

Short Code: BHM1-A

Year Built: 2019

Utility Provider: Alabama Power

Floors: 0

Lot Size: 27 acres

Sites on this Campus:

DC BLOX: BHM1-B

Total Power

SqFt

Gross Colocation Size

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.

Map and Nearby Locations:

433 6th St S

DC BLOX Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of DC BLOX Birmingham

Distance	Site	About
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.
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.
16.68 miles	Logistics Land: Marvel Expansion
16.70 miles	Logistics Land: 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.

DC BLOX Birmingham Data Center Photos (See all)

Rendering of DC Blox Development on former Trinity Steel lot

Source: Baxtel

Trinity Lot Location

Source: Baxtel

The campus could potentially reachj $785 million

Phased Plan for the Campus Buildout

Source: Baxtel

The campus could potentially reachj $785 million

DCBlox Almost Ready to Launch

Source: Baxtel

Photo taken in May 2019

DC Blox Network Map

Source: Baxtel

Showing current locations and planned future locations

DC Blox Market Map

Source: DC Blox

Showing current locations and planned future locations

Operating Company

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.

History:

2025-08: Secured a $1.15 billion green loan to develop the Atlanta West data center campus in Douglas County, Georgia.
2025-07: Announced a second subsea cable landing station campus in Palm Coast, Florida, expected to be operational by Q1 2027.
2022-05: Acquired Southeastern fiber assets from Light Source Communications and Ascendant Capital Fiber.

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