DC BLOX Birmingham
433 6th Street South, Birmingham, AL, 35233, US
DC BLOX Birmingham at 433 6th Street South, downtown near UAB, is a 31,000 sq ft building rated for 5 MW of critical load, on a 30.53-acre site fed by Alabama Power that is planned to reach 200,000 sq ft and 60 MW. Uptime Institute awarded the building a Tier III Certification of Constructed Facility in August 2020. A data hall added in 2022 carries 2.4 MW of 3N/2 distributed redundant power for 36 HPC cabinets at 34 kW beside 240 standard cabinets, while the standard halls take 32 kW per 48U cabinet with water-cooled rear-door heat exchangers. In March 2026 the company applied to build an attached 30,000 sq ft, 7.5 MW building for a contracted customer, ahead of a 250,000 sq ft phase. Four networks and one exchange are on site, with AT&T, Comcast, Charter, Cogent, Lumen and Zayo reachable over virtual cross-connects. Cabinets, cages and build-to-suit halls are sold here.
Facility Specifications
Site information
- Colocation space
- 31,000 sq ft (2,880 m²) building, expandable to 200,000 sq ft
- Power capacity
- 5 MW critical load
- Power density
- 32 kW per 48U cabinet
- Uptime SLA
- Uptime Institute Tier III Certified Constructed Facility (2020)
Power & cooling
- Redundancy
- N+1 generators, N+1 UPS, dual UPS feeds to all cabinets, 24-hour on-site fuel
- Cooling
- N+1 DX cooling, hot-aisle containment, water-cooled rear-door heat exchangers
Platforms & amenities
- Amenities
- 24x7 staffed security desk, 13,000 sq ft tenant space, 150 mph wind-rated structure, perimeter fencing, vehicle gate, CCTV, customer lockers