FAIRFIELD, Ala. (WBRC) – Fairfield Mayor Herman Carnes Jr. and a city councilor traveled to Kansas City this week to tour a Patmos data center tech campus. The company is proposing to convert the old Walmart Supercenter in Fairfield into a data center and technology campus.
Carnes described the Kansas City site as a multi-story tech campus with a data center on at least one floor. He said it was a lot quieter than many people imagine.
“I went in the building, that’s when I saw all the machines and things like that. In my mind I was like… wow… all the myths about how noisy and I’m in a building where people are actually working. It kind of reminds you of an incubator,” Carnes said.
Proposal details
Patmos is proposing a co-location data center and tech campus inside the old Walmart Supercenter in Fairfield. Co-location centers let businesses rent space for their servers and computer equipment…