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U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville discussed hyperscale data centers during his weekly media call. Tuberville acknowledged during the call that, "Well, it has been a hot topic, and people in Alabama. And they are obviously concerned about data centers causing their energy bills to go up. And I completely agree with them." Yet, while acknowledging the concerns of Alabamians with regards to hyperscale data centers, Tuberville maintained that "further development of data centers across the state" is...
The Tuscaloosa County National Alumni Association of the University of Alabama held its annual Fall Kickoff event at the River Market in Tuscaloosa on Tuesday evening. A crowd of nearly 150 attended the event with several alumni proudly boasting of their long-time association with The University of Alabama, including Don Garner. A gentleman who is in his eighties and let people know that he was actually born in the university. As back when he was born, there was a small hospital on the campus of...
"Hyperscaled" is a short documentary film that focuses on the residents of Bessemer, Alabama and their struggle to oppose, "Project Marvel", a proposed hyperscale data center that involves a 1,600 acre campus operated by QTS Data Centers. With Quality Technology Services being a data center focused company that was started in Kansas. QTS currently operates at least 28 data centers in the USA, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. QTS Data Centers are also the ones responsible for a data...
Tim Wildmon, the president of the American Family Association, sent out an e-mail today under the heading of "A Personal Note From Tim" forewarning people about the growing influence of the Democratic Socialists of America, commonly known as "DSA". For the co-chair of the DSA recently appeared on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream to discuss some of the major platforms of the Democratic Socialists of America. A platform which according to Bream consists of making, "conditions intolerable for the...
William Franklin Graham IV, known as "Will", is the grandson of the famous Christian evangelist, Billy Graham. He is the eldest son of Franklin Graham who is associated with the ministry, Samaritan's Purse. A ministry that provides international relief and crisis response as well as the famous Christmas shoebox ministry. A charming hallmark of the Christmas season that provides Christmas presents to children around the globe during the aspect of their ministry called Operation Christmas Child....
The leader of the West Shelby County Action Group for Eagle Forum, a national conservative organization, stated in a letter that was passed out at the Action Group's meeting, yesterday, that hyperscale data centers are, "a bipartisan issue that concerns the future of our state." Marilyn Simpler noted in her letter that since she has been voicing her opposition to the massive hyperscale Artificial Intelligence data centers, "being pushed into Alabama", she has been called every pejorative...
In a prime example of how the issue of hyperscale data centers flooding the State of Alabama has become a matter of concern for Alabamians of both sides of the political aisle, Ann Eubank, a prominent figure in the Alabama Republican party who is a member of Mom's for Liberty and a member of the Alabama Legislative Watchdogs, spoke at the West Shelby County Action Group of Eagle Forum yesterday. While she has been an advocate for stopping the Common Core curriculum in schools due to seeing it...
The Tuscaloosa Public Library is the main public library that services Tuscaloosa County. A county that as of the 2020 census is the fifth-most populous county in the State of Alabama. Traditionally, the Rotary Room in the Tuscaloosa Public Library has been reserved as a meeting place for civic organizations of all kinds in the area. With the Rotary Room at one point even being reserved by local music teachers for their studios' end of the year piano recitals. As at one point, the Rotary Room at...
July 23, 2026 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) discussed data centers during his weekly press call today, describing them as, "Some are the size of a Wal Mart and some are the size of twenty football fields." He repeated his support of data centers being constructed in Alabama. Comparing the AI race to the space race. As he described the artificial intelligence race as, "the space race for the 21st Century." With Tuberville expressing confidence that, "Alabama will...
The lead singer of the country music group, "Alabama", is the subject of a documentary entitled, "My Home's In Alabama The Randy Owen Story" that will be premiering on Alabama Public Television on Saturday, August 08th, at seven o'clock in the evening. The title of the documentary derives from the title of Alabama's fourth studio album which was released on May 20th, 1980. Randy Owen was the lead singer for the song on that album, "My Home's In Alabama", with Randy Owen also co-writing the song...
Willie Nelson and Tanya Tucker, both of whom are big names in country music and both of whom hail from Texas, have come out publicly against the massive construction of hyperscale data centers. As Texas is experiencing a massive surge in the construction of the water consuming and energy sapping hyperscale data centers due to a similar reason that Alabama is experiencing an upsurge in hyperscale data centers: cheap and plentiful land. Right now an analysis by the Texas Tribune has identified...
Concerns about hyperscale data centers being built in Alabama range from the environmental consequences, the light pollution from the data centers, the literally deafening noise pollution from such data centers, the enormous water consumption of the hyperscale data centers, the huge power consumption of the AI hyperscale data centers, and the secrecy of public officials surrounding the development of such centers. Yet, in his unequivocal support for the construction of hyperscale data centers...
The Cedar Creek Cowboy Church in Childersburg, Alabama is hosting the "Raising The Roof For Jesus" pro rodeo this weekend. With the gates opening at six o'clock in the evening on Friday, July 31st, 2026 and on Saturday, August 01st, 2026. The first event of the "Raising The Roof For Jesus" rodeo will feature what they call the "Mutton Bustin'" which starts at seven o'clock on Friday night. It is an event geared towards little kids seven years of age and under who also weigh not more than 70...
August 3, 2026 - TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The Regency Retirement Village of Birmingham is a Birmingham senior living community that upon its recent sale in May of this year featured 38 independent living, 24 assisted living, and 25 memory care residences. The Regency Retirement Village of Tuscaloosa upon its purchase in May consisted of 26 independent living residences and 81 assisted living and memory care residences, for a total of 107 residences. The sale in May was brokered on behalf of the Tennes...
Currently, statistics from the Data Center Map show that Alabama has 23 hyperscale data centers currently in operation with a total of 21 more hyperscale data centers being planned for the State of Alabama. Bringing the total number of hyperscale data centers to 44 in Alabama, the Beautiful. With 25 of those hyperscale AI data centers being centered around the Birmingham area. The largest planned data center project in Alabama is the controversial, "Project Marvel" operated by QTS Data Centers...
Perfect for The Fourth of July, the feature film, "Young Washington", is now showing in movie theaters nationwide. It is a compellingly good movie. While the film does have some French and Indian War era violence which gives it its PG-13 rating, it is overall suited for family viewing. As one young lad of 13 years of age put it while holding up his large cup of Coca Cola in the movie theater, "Young Washington" is a good movie, "even better than this Coke". "Young Washington" focuses on the expe...
According some estimates, there are thirteen operating data centers currently operating in Alabama with a combined capacity of 764 Mega Watts with fourteen more hyperscale data center projects planned in Alabama the Beautiful that would add 2,704 more Mega Watts of capacity. Given that data centers consume enormous amounts of water for their evaporating based cooling systems, consume gargantuan amounts of power, emit air pollutants and greenhouse gases from their backup generators, raise the dec...
"Young Washington", the full-length feature film about the early days of George Washington, opened in movie theaters over the Fourth of July weekend. It was predicted to bring in $15 million at the box office, however, it brought in a third more than was predicted and took in $20 million at the box office. An impressive accomplishment since the movie debuted over the weekend in just 2,700 movie screens across the country instead of the usual 4,000 for major new releases. The $20 million in box...
Alabama the Beautiful, is known for being the single state within the USA that has the most navigable inland waterways. For Alabama has over 1,400 miles of commercially navigable channels. Along with 132,000 miles of rivers and streams that wind their way throughout Alabama. Such river systems are an ecological gem for Alabama. As they lead to Alabama having more native types of freshwater crayfish, fish, turtles, snails, and mussel species than any other state in the USA. According to the Alaba...
The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890 after the Sons of the American Revolution refused to admit women into their organization. Some of the original co-founders of the DAR included a great-grandniece of George Washington, Eugenia Washington. With Caroline Lavina Scott Harrison, the wife of President Benjamin Harrison, being interested in historic preservation, Caroline served as the DAR's first President General. Using her position in the organization to help establish...
A protest against the proposed Nebius AI site is planned for Saturday, June 27th from 10AM until 12PM at the intersection of Lakeshore Parkway and Sydney Drive in Birmingham, Alabama. With Nebius being an Amsterdam- based Artificial Intelligence cloud company that is intending to operate an AI site in the Oxmoor Corporate Park in Birmingham, Alabama, twenty-four hours, seven days a week. The proposed Nebius AI site is set to require 300 megawatts of electricity. The amount usually needed to...
Commonly known as the DAR, the Daughters of the American Revolution, are scheduled to vote on a resolution today, Friday, June 26th, 2026, which would clarify that in the bylaws of the DAR, the term "woman" shall be understood to clearly mean a woman who was born female. With the resolution thereby making all individuals who were born male ineligible for membership. The proposed resolution also specifies that transgender women shall not be eligible for membership into the DAR as well as men who...
"Ours is not to reason why, ours but to do and die." This quote, which is a variation of a line from "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is often used to describe the military mindset when it comes to obeying orders. For, typically, in the military, one of the first duties of a soldier is to obey orders. However, in the American army there is an exception to the "do and die" mindset when it comes to orders. Those orders have to be lawful. When an order is unlawful, an...
Mike Wahl, an Alabama based poet, won one of three $250 prizes awarded for poems selected by the guest judge for the US 250 Persona Poem Project, Lynne Viti. With Viti being faculty emerita of Wellesley College and the inaugural poet laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts. His winning poem is entitled, "Changing the World". With persona poems being poems written in the first person, the "persona" in the poem is the fictional voice the author uses to narrate the poem. In this case, the US 250...
The commissioner of Major League Baseball, Robert D. Manfred Jr., has stated that the three Major League Baseball Players, Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker, who wore Bible verses on their baseball caps during the San Francisco Giants' gay pride event on June 10th, 2026, will not be fined nor disciplined. Initially, a controversy was stirred when the three pitchers for the San Francisco Giants were issued an oral warning for violating the league's uniform policy which prohibits the...
