"breaking news right now we have confirmed one of the companies who is involved in a massive and controversial data center project in Bessemer on your side investigator josh gantt now digging into this and tracking leads for months now joining us now in studio what did you find yeah i've heard rumblings about this for the past week or so just a short time ago a qts spokesperson confirmed that the company is pursuing plans to build a data center campus on the project marble site in Bessemer in addition our partners at the Birmingham Business Journal report the land for project marble was purchased last week by a top private equity firm in deals worth more than eight hundred and seventy million dollars earlier this year we visited a massive qts data center here in Fayetteville Georgia that's what you're looking at it's currently under construction the development sits on more than 600 acres now the proposed data center campus in Bessemer could look similar to this qts telling us in part the project is expected to support thousands of jobs across construction contractors and long-term operations contribute new tax revenue and create broader economic opportunity that can benefit local services schools and community priorities qts says it looks forward to building a long-term partnership with the city of Bessemer Jefferson county and the broader community as planning progresses i have reached out to multiple city officials for a comment i'll let you know when i hear"