DC Blox’s proposed data center in Nashville is facing strong pushback from the local community. The planned 24-acre campus sits right next to the Nashville Zoo, raising major concerns about resource strain, noise, and environmental risks.
Zoo leadership, country star Brad Paisley, and over 391,000 petition signers are actively fighting the project, with the zoo filing a zoning appeal to overturn approved permits. Meanwhile, a potential city moratorium could block the development, though DC Blox maintains the facility is vital infrastructure needed to handle growing regional internet traffic.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 1.01 miles | Lumen Nashville 1 | |
| 4.41 miles | Nexus Group Nashville | |
| 4.51 miles | EdgeConneX Nashville |
EdgeConnex has rights to adjacent space to accommodate expansion in Nashville.
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| 4.96 miles | Verizon: 101 Molloy |
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| 5.25 miles | Mapletree: 402 Franklin |
In 2020, Carter Validus sold the facility to Mapletree
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| 5.27 miles | H5 Nashville |
H5 no longer operates this facility. In a quiet consolidation shift, this site was fully decommissioned.
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| 5.32 miles | H5: Nashville 2 |
In January 2026, H5 Data Centers acquired a highly connected, 19,700-square-foot carrier hotel asset in Nashville from 365 Data Centers.
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| 5.48 miles | Atmosphere: Nashville, TN |
Atmosphere Data Centers' planned Nashville, TN facility is a Tier III+ campus spanning 38 acres, optimized for AI/HPC workloads with high-density liquid cooling and a target 1.08 PUE.
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| 5.53 miles | Lumen Nashville 2 | |
| 6.18 miles | Fisk University: Nashville, TN |
The Quantum Leap Innovation & Technology Center is a proposed $400 million, 100,000-square-foot facility spearheaded by Fisk University as the anchor of its broader $1 billion campus master plan in North Nashville, Tennessee.
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| 8.84 miles | Flexential Brentwood |
The Brentwood site was known as "Nashville 1" and "Nashville 4" when they were operated by Peak 10.
Site
Usable SqFt
Power MW
Nashville 1
12,500
.8 MW
Nashville 4
6,600
.18 MW
Total
19,100
.98 MW
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| 9.31 miles | RadiusDC: Nashville, TN |
Located on a 12-acre plot in the Trinity Hills neighborhood, the completed data center will cover 102,500 square feet (9,500 square meters) by 2026.
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| 10.79 miles | Flexential Cool Springs |
The Cool Springs data center was known as "Nashville 2" and "Nashville 3" when it was formerly operated by Peak 10.
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| 12.41 miles | Flexential Franklin TN |
The site was known as "Nashville 5" when operated by Peak 10.
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| 12.99 miles | Tierpoint Nashville NSH | |
| 12.99 miles | Compass Franklin I |
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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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