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Patmos Fairfield Data Center

Patmos announced plans for a $150 million data center in Fairfield, Alabama, inside a former Walmart, with residents raising questions and hundreds attending a town hall. It is reported; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 4 sources, 0 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Land
Not disclosed
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
Patmos
as stated by the source
Who would use it
Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs
Not disclosed
Tax each year
Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs Not disclosed
How much water it would use Not disclosed
How loud it would be Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year Not disclosed

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Patmos as stated by the source September 17, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land Not disclosed
Where its power comes from Not disclosed
Grid connection Not disclosed
How it is cooled Not disclosed

The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.

Still not public, and where it would show up

The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.

  • Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What was decided

Acts of Jefferson County and Fairfield about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

DateWhoDecisionSource
Tarrant City of Tarrant approved a 12 month moratorium on data centers abc3340.com
Tarrant Ordinance would direct city to study feasibility of data centers and what standards should be established abc3340.com
Tarrant Tarrant City Council scheduled first reading of Ordinance No. 1177 establishing temporary moratorium on data center business license applications abc3340.com
Homewood Homewood temporarily paused new data center applications abc3340.com

What happened

No dated entry is on the record yet.

3 corrections to this record

Every correction, with its reason

  1. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  2. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  3. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.

What was said

Fairfield Mayor Herman Carnes Jr. visited a Patmos data center campus in Kansas City and described it as a multi story tech campus with a data center on at least one floor, stating it was quieter than many imagine.
Herman Carnes Jr., Fairfield Mayor · September 11, 2026 · paraphrased · WBRC local outlet
Patmos founder John Johnson told neighbors at a community meeting that generators will have mufflers and the loudest equipment will stay inside, with the site quieter than the old Walmart.
John Johnson, Patmos founder · September 11, 2026 · paraphrased · WBRC local outlet

Every statement about data centers in Alabama, by speaker

The site

Where in Jefferson County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.

  • This record: Proposed, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 9 other published records in Alabama
Details
  • this record's location, ringed
  • parcel outline, from the county parcel record
  • city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
  • county boundary

The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.

Where
Fairfield, Jefferson County, Alabama
How exactly it is located
County level, the county seat
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.

Keep going

The county Jefferson County 2 projects on the record. A pause on new data centers is on the record. The state Data centers in Alabama Every Alabama project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

4 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

Who is building Patmos Fairfield Data Center?

Patmos is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does Patmos Fairfield Data Center say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Patmos Fairfield Data Center stand today?

It is reported; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. No dated entry is on the record yet.

What has Fairfield or Jefferson County decided about it?

Tarrant: City of Tarrant approved a 12 month moratorium on data centers (reported September 9, 2026, source); and Tarrant: Ordinance would direct city to study feasibility of data centers and what standards should be established (reported September 8, 2026, source). 4 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Reporting

  1. Fairfield mayor visits Patmos campus in Kansas City as company eyes city for possible data center development - WBRC, WBRC, September 11, 2026, local outlet
  2. Patmos executives detail plans for $150 million Fairfield data center - AL.com, AL.com, August 13, 2026, local outlet
  3. New data center plans to move quickly in Fairfield. Residents have questions - wbhm.org, wbhm.org, August 14, 2026, local outlet
  4. Hundreds pack Fairfield town hall over proposed data center inside former Walmart - WBRC 6 News, WBRC 6 News, August 12, 2026, local outlet

4 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Patmos Fairfield Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/patmos-fairfield-data-center-al, last verified September 17, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page and under What happened.

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Slug
patmos-fairfield-data-center-al
Status value
rumored
Stage
Proposed
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/al/jefferson-county/fairfield
Coordinates
33.5175, -86.80944
Location precision
county
Location source
County seat (Birmingham), Wikidata, placed at county level
Coordinate source
wikidata county seat
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 16, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
Use type values
not_disclosed
Tenancy value
not_disclosed
Cooling type value
not_disclosed
Capacity basis
not_disclosed
Water basis
not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis
Not disclosed
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Not disclosed
Published
2026-09-05
Last verified
2026-09-17