Candidates question who should decide Alabama’s data center future

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Former Alabama Auditor Jim Zeigler, a current GOP nominee for Alabama Public Service Commission, speaks during a community meeting on Monday, July 27, 2026, at the Mt. Vernon Community Center in Mt. Vernon, Ala. The meeting was held to allow residents to voice concerns about an estimated $6 billion data center that will be built in unincorporated Calvert. The project is backed by Beacon Data Centers, and residents say they are alarmed over what is a lack of transparency and trust with a project that could be under construction later this year.

As Alabama regulators consider new rules for powering data centers, a political fight is emerging over who should be overseeing those decisions.

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