Many in Birmingham’s Oxmoor Valley community are pushing back against plans for a new multibillion-dollar AI factory in a corporate park near neighborhoods.
AI cloud company Nebius bought 75 acres of land in September and submitted its first permit requests with the city of Birmingham in January – just ahead of the city’s pause on new data center development.
Because the land is already zoned appropriately for data centers, residents have complained about a lack of opportunity to weigh in on the project in a public forum. Instead, more than 150 people showed up to a zoning meeting about substation permits on Thursday afternoon…