A legal fight over a proposed AI data center in Alabama has entered a new stage, as neighbors challenging the project have expanded their lawsuit and scrutinized the way the site was bought and sold.
In the updated case, the residents said the Birmingham property moved rapidly through related entities and that its stated value swelled from about $20 million to roughly $90 million in around 25 hours.
What happened?
Madelyn Greene and David Butler have revised a class-action lawsuit over the planned 300-megawatt “AI factory” in Oxmoor Valley.
As WBRC reported, they initially argued that Birmingham failed to follow its own zoning rules. Now, they have also alleged that a network of companies used quick successive land transfers to make the project appear to carry a much larger investment…