A record, not a campaign.
Several data centers have been proposed across Mobile County: Edged's "Project Gateway" on the Prichard side of Africatown, and Beacon's hyperscale campus near Calvert in the north of the county. Each company is making its case. This site sets that case beside the public record: what is promised, what is left out, and who gets to decide.
It does not tell you what to conclude. Reasonable people weigh these projects differently, and the point of the site is to make that judgment an informed one, then hand it back to you and to the officials who answer to you.
The method.
Every claim traces to a named source. If a fact isn't sourced, it isn't stated. Statutes, agendas, tariffs, filings, the companies' own words, and dated reporting are all cited on the page and gathered on the Documents & sources page.
We present the company's claim, then what the record adds. The developers' assurances are quoted fairly and in full, and then tested against what is binding, what is enforceable, and what is still just a draft or a press quote.
We say when an argument is weak. Where the record backs the company, as it largely does on on-site water use, we say so. Conceding what is true is what makes the harder questions credible.
We flag what we don't know. Unconfirmed items are marked as unconfirmed, not guessed. Pages update as sources are pinned down, and corrections are welcome.
We are independent and unaffiliated. This site is not connected to Edged, Beacon, Nadia Partners, or any developer, and it is not a sales pitch for anyone. It carries no advertising and speaks for no company.
These decisions are long-term, and the clock is short.
A data center is not easily undone. Once built, the traffic, emissions, water and power draw, and tax terms stay for decades, often outlasting the people who promised them. Meanwhile the decisions are made in public meetings that are scheduled with little notice and moved quickly. A single place that keeps the facts straight and the calendar visible tilts that imbalance back toward the residents who have to live with the outcome.
Found something? Send it in.
If you have a correction, a document that belongs in the record (a filed agenda item, an ADEM notice, a draft agreement) or a tip about either project, send it. Corrections are published; sources are protected on request. If you spot an error on any page, we want to know before anyone else repeats it.