Meta Montgomery Under construction
Chip types: B300. Epoch AI estimates ~153 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- Meta
- Owner
- Meta
- Size
- 153 MW
- Location
- Montgomery, 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 (5 events)
- 2024-05-02announcement
Governor Kay Ivey announced Meta's plans to build an $800 million, 715,000-square-foot AI-optimized data center off Interstate 65 in Montgomery, expected to support 100 operational jobs and open by the end of 2026. · source - 2024-05-09construction
Hensel Phelps announced it was awarded the general contractor role for Meta's $800+ million, 715,000-square-foot Montgomery data center, its second campus project with Meta. · source - 2025-09-23announcement
Meta announced it is expanding the Montgomery Data Center campus with two new buildings, bringing the campus to nearly 1.3 million square feet and increasing total investment to more than $1.5 billion. · source - 2025-12-02ruling
The Alabama Public Service Commission approved the Stockton I (80 MW) and Stockton II (180 MW) solar projects in Baldwin County, financed by Meta subsidiary Dotier LLC to supply renewable energy to Meta's Montgomery data center, on a timeline that met only a 20-day review window against the Commission's own 30-day submission rule. · source - 2026-02-09protest
A town hall was scheduled in Baldwin County after residents said they received no advance public notice of the Stockton I/II solar projects approved to power Meta's Montgomery data center, and opposition groups formed online over land-use and environmental concerns. · 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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 32.300, -86.250 — 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.
Recent news
6 stories tracked since 2026-08-12 across 6 outlets. 3× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. 2× The dispute has escalated into litigation. Most recent: “Data Center Job Numbers Rarely Tell the Whole Story, by Richard Montgomery” (Creators Syndicate, 2026-09-08).
- Data Center Job Numbers Rarely Tell the Whole Story, by Richard Montgomery
- Atmosphere Data Centers scraps challenge to Montgomery Co. executive’s permitting moratorium
- Injunction overturned leading to vote on Montgomery Co. data center Thursday
- Montgomery Township Now Faces a Fierce Data Center Battle at the Former J&J Site
- Montgomery Faces Lawsuit Challenging Data Center Ban
- Montgomery Residents Speak Out on Data Center Issue
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 6 headlines archived.
Around here
- Alabama briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Alabama
- Project Marvel — Bessemer, 86 mi In review
- Meta Huntsville — Toney (Madison County), 174 mi Under construction
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Meta Montgomery”, aigridwatch.com/projects/meta-montgomery, 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.
Part of the data center project tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0 (JSON · CSV).