Meta Huntsville Under construction
Chip types: B300. Epoch AI estimates ~146 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- Meta
- Owner
- Meta
- Size
- 146 MW
- Location
- Toney (Madison County), Alabama
- Stage today
- Under construction
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: Under construction — pull the approved conditions and permits and hold the builder to them; an expansion or a new building reopens the record.
What has happened so far (4 events)
- 2018-05-24vote
Huntsville City Council unanimously approved the sale of 340 acres in the North Huntsville Industrial Park to Facebook's project entity, Starbelt LLC, for $8.5 million. · source - 2018-06-14announcement
Governor Kay Ivey announced Facebook would invest $750 million to build a data center in Huntsville, projected to create about 100 jobs at an average annual salary of $80,000, with Facebook set to receive an estimated $86.25 million in Alabama Jobs Act credits over 10 years. · source - 2022-12-16construction
Meta announced a temporary work stoppage on the Huntsville data center expansion, with a company spokesperson attributing it to changes in the data center's design. · source - 2022-12-20coverage
Meta confirmed it halted construction on a portion of its $1.5 billion Huntsville expansion to change the facility's design, part of a broader pullback that also paused a Temple, Texas project and canceled a planned Odense, Denmark facility amid the company's shift toward AI infrastructure. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management (ADEM)The program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- ADEM eFile document searchSearchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Toney (Madison County) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Toney (Madison County) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- No organised market covers this statenoteThere is no public queue to read. The record is the utility's integrated resource plan and its filings at the PUC — plus FERC eLibrary for anything federally docketed.
- Alabama Public Service Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 34.790, -86.750 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Around here
- Alabama briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Alabama
- Project Marvel — Bessemer, 97 mi In review
- Meta Montgomery — Montgomery, 174 mi Under construction
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Meta Huntsville”, aigridwatch.com/projects/meta-huntsville, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.
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