Applied Digital has revealed that its $3.2 billion Delta Forge 2 AI data center will be located near Brookwood, Alabama. The company revealed in June that it had secured a customer for a new 210MW data center, but did not announce its location. It has now revealed it will be built on a 1,300-acre site near Brookwood, in Alabama’s Tuscaloosa County.

Power constraints are driving significant double-digital growth for critical infrastructure vendors and their channel partners as AI data center construction accelerates.

The data center buildout is driving up the price of rural land as some farmers and property owners buy in and others push back against development.

Data centers have become a contentious issue across the country. Owing in large part to the increased use of artificial intelligence, more and more data centers are being constructed in the U.S. This has come with significant costs.

Just over half of registered voters in the state — 51% — say they oppose building new data centers that power the technology, according to a poll by POLITICO and its partners.

The state fined DataOne $1.07 million for running 62 unpermitted natural gas generators at its New Jersey facility.

The potential transaction comes as investors pour billions into data centers to meet rising demand for cloud computing, artificial intelligence and digital services. Stack operates facilities across major Asia-Pacific markets,

Virginia is home to about one-third of the world’s data centers, and a new executive order from Gov. Abigail Spanberger is not stopping that development.