Resources
Click here for a Citizens Guide: Get the June 9th amended draft data center ordinance right. (PDF)
Who sits downwind of the site. Click the image to view it full size.
Most Requested Documents
- Hyperscale Data Center Section (PDF)
(Pages 13–19) — Read this one first. - Complete Birmingham City Ordinance (PDF)
(Pages 42–45 and 62–66) — The full formal amendment document that will actually be enacted. - Citizens Guide: Get the June 9th amended draft data center ordinance right. (PDF)
- Sign the Petition: Animals Need a Healing Environment
- Amended Complaint in the class-action lawsuit Madelyn Greene et al v. Nebius, Inc. et al
Heat
Two 2026 studies found measurable warming around large data centers — and on a typical summer afternoon, the prevailing wind carries heat from the proposed site toward the GBHS campus, a 500-home subdivision, and an elementary school.
- The Heat Question Nobody Has Answered (PDF)
- What Birmingham Should Require on Heat (PDF)
- Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts (PDF)
David J. Sailor, Soroush Samareh Abolhassani & Eli P. Martin · ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities, Vol. 7 (2026) · CC BY 4.0 · (source)
© 2026 The Authors. Published by ASME under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. - The Data Heat Island Effect: Quantifying the Impact of AI Data Centers in a Warming World (PDF)
Andrea Marinoni, Pietro Liò, Erik Cambria, et al. · Preprint, arXiv (2026) · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · (source)
© 2026 The Authors, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).