A Massive Data Center Helped Topple a Mayor. What’s Next?
Source: Word In Black · Oct 20, 2026
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- 01Project Marvel, a data center planned outside majority-Black Bessemer, could cost as much as $14.5 billion and take a decade to build.
- 02New Mayor Louise Alexander ordered a review of the project’s contracts after secrecy around the development helped drive Kenneth Gulley’s election defeat.
- 03Rezoning the 1,600-acre site from agricultural to light industrial cleared a major development hurdle.
- 04The facility would use 90 times more electricity than Bessemer, raising energy-use and pollution concerns for the community. The article does not disclose financing sources, utility-rate impacts or financial benefits for residents.
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Project MarvelLouise AlexanderKenneth GulleyAaron Killings Jr.Bessemer City CouncilAlabama House of Representatives
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