Project Marvel, a data center project in Bessemer, Alabama, could potentially double in size if local authorities approve a rezoning request to expand the campus by 900 acres.

Bessemer City Councilor Cleo King told Inside Climate News last week that developer Logistic Land Investment would be filing a rezoning request for an expansion of Project Marvel, but details of the request remain hazy.

The development plan for Project Marvel was first approved by the Bessemer City Council last November. According to this plan, the campus would span 700 acres across 18 buildings with 1.2GW of capacity once built.

At the time, it was estimated that Project Marvel would take around seven years to build, WBRC reported.

It is unclear what the developer will do with the extra land. It is also unclear how the expansion would change the existing plan and how this would affect the construction timeline.

The developer, Logistic Land Investment LLC, is owned by Atlanta-based TPA Group, and the same company previously filed to build a data center in Venus, Texas, in July 2024.

Project Marvel has been met with opposition since its inception, and a public Facebook group called ‘Bessemer Data Center - We Say No!’ has been created to protest the development.

The concerns about Project Marvel expressed by members of the group – including the potential environmental impact and the possibility of rising utility bills – have become commonplace across the US as the data center boom pushes developers into communities that have little to no experience with data centers.

Located just outside of Birmingham, which is one of Alabama’s main data center hubs, Bessemer is a city in Jefferson County. Data Center Map currently lists no data centers in the city.