GPU cloud provider Lambda says it will move into an Alabama campus with an estimated US$33.1 billion investment, with power still awaiting regulatory approval

(event date November 4)

Concept illustration: on the left, a large billboard on three posts has a black header with a white angular mark and the lettering LAMBDA, and its white panel shows a long building outlined only in dashed lines on the left and an open rust-red sack with coin-like discs piled at its mouth on the right; a tall pale-pink rectangle rises behind the billboard, a short notched post stands to its right, and in front are a low sign lettered RED CLAY and, to that sign's right, an upright shovel. On the right, a utility pole with a crossarm and two insulators has one cable running from the right insulator off the picture's edge and carries a sign lettered ALABAMA POWER with a red, blue and green triangle mark, while another cable runs from the crossarm behind that sign down to a black coil hung on a hook on the pole, whose loose end hangs in the air with an alligator clip at its tip. Printed on the image: US$33.1B estimated investment, self-reported by Lambda.

GPU cloud provider Lambda announced on November 4 that it will be the end user of the Red Clay campus in Lowndes County, Alabama (Lambda, 2026-11-04). The end user is the party that moves in once a developer has readied the site. Lambda expects to start building its Alabama campus in the first quarter of 2027, but power still awaits regulatory approval and Marketplace reports many local opposition signs.

Developer Cloverleaf Infrastructure is readying the campus. Lambda self-reports an estimated investment of US$33.1 billion in the state, with construction expected to start in the first quarter of 2027 and to last up to five years. The announcement gives no capacity, so the cost per megawatt can't be calculated. Power comes from Alabama Power and still needs regulatory approval. Lambda also says it will pay all power and grid-facility costs. The public-media program Marketplace reported on the same land on October 29, without mentioning Lambda at the time. Marketplace says the county has no zoning law and that anti-data-center signs outnumber political signs (Marketplace, 2026-10-29).

Not proven yet: the US$33.1 billion is Lambda's own estimate How we checked →

Next to watch: Alabama Power's supply approval and whether construction starts in the first quarter of 2027.

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SecondSource (2026). "GPU cloud provider Lambda says it will move into an Alabama campus with an estimated US$33.1 billion investment, with power still awaiting regulatory approval." https://secondsource.io/en/news/2026-11-06-4/. Accessed access date.