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Bessemer Data Center

Bessemer Data Center Developer to Request Rezoning for Additional 900 Acres

The city’s attorney informed council members of the request on Tuesday, warning that there may be media scrutiny.

By Lee Hedgepeth

The developer of Project Marvel, a proposed massive hyperscale data center, has requested the rezoning of additional agricultural land in southwest Bessemer, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News
Bessemer City Council member Cleo King explains his vote against rezoning for Project Marvel in a November meeting. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

An Alabama City Council Approves Rezoning for a Massive Data Center, Dividing a Community

By Lee Hedgepeth

A specimen of the Birmingham darter documented by Yale biologist Thomas Near and his research team. Credit: Konstantinos Andriotis

A Proposed Alabama Data Center Faces New Hurdles: A ‘Road to Nowhere’ and the Birmingham Darter

By Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion

The site of the proposed Bessemer data center is currently a nearly 700-acre wooded plot. Construction would require the clearcutting of more than 100 acres. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Citing Climate Crisis, NAACP Expresses Opposition to Massive Alabama Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth

Residents dress in red to show their opposition to the proposed data center hold signs that read “Vote NO on the proposed data center in Bessemer.” Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Amid Community Opposition, Alabama Hyperscale Data Center Project Hits a Speed Bump

By Lee Hedgepeth

Bessemer residents attend a City Council meeting on July 15 to express opposition to a proposed data center. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Fact-Checking Claims About a Proposed Hyperscale Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom

The watercress darter, an endangered fish found only in central Alabama, could be put at risk by a proposed data center. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Bessemer, Alabama, Could Face Legal Action Over Environmental Impacts From a ‘Hyperscale’ Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Rock Mountain Lakes community (foreground) is located adjacent to the proposed data center site (background) in Jefferson County, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Water Utility Says It Can’t Meet Demand for Alabama Data Center Without ‘Significant Upgrades’

By Lee Hedgepeth

Brad Kaaber, a representative of the proposed data center developer, speaks to zoning commissioners during a Tuesday meeting in a room of residents opposed to the project. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers

By Lee Hedgepeth

Four people are standing out of doors, trees in the background. The two in the middle are holding a piece of paper with the colorful Birmingham darter.

The Darter Fish and the Data Center

By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom

Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards

By Lee Hedgepeth, Lanier Isom

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