Lay Lake Home Owners Boat Owners - HOBO Association

08/22/2026

Spoke to protect our watershed in Westover to packed crowd at New Life Church. Citizens fighting proposed Data Center that will gobble up land, pollute air/water, threaten health/safety. The Shelby County Reporter reported Data Center plans for area but neglected to note 80% of attendees were opposed & wanted an extended moratorium/stoppage. Kinda soured my orange juice. Felt we citizens are invisible.

08/03/2026

Whoa! Watch out for an open refrigerator that floated past marker #58 in Wilsonville headed toward Dry Branch yesterday. Hoping APC can find it and pull it out.

08/03/2026

Wishing you a good fishing season! Lay Lake Home Owners Boat Owners - HOBO Association

The fishing team will have a table at meet the teacher next week, Friday, August 7th at 4:30 pm. Please stop by if you are interested in becoming a Fayetteville Angler and we would be happy to answer any questions you may have!

07/24/2026

We need to let the Army Corps of Engineers know that we are NOT HAPPY about a big proposed graphite pit mining operation along the shores of the Coosa River. They need to do an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and offer a public meeting! Email [email protected] now!
Coosa Riverkeeper

07/20/2026

We hope you have time to cool off in Lay Lake. Use this guide to protect yourself from pollution. And again, thanks for pulling 30,000 pounds of trash out of this lake. That makes swimming safer too! We support Coosa Riverkeeper and appreciate them testing the water.

07/08/2026

Today we met with Alabama Power Shoreline and Relicensing team to discuss Channel Marker Improvements. We learned that they are currently evaluating conditions and identifying missing and or damaged markers. Attached are some old 2015 photos.

Tell us the problems area and give us the marker number.

Leave comments below and we will discuss with Alabama Power at our next meeting.

Thank you

07/06/2026

New high dollar building permits include Shelby County data center conversion in Columbiana
Fri, July 3, 2026 by SylacaugaNews.com Digital Team

New high dollar building permits include Shelby County data center conversion in Columbiana
COLUMBIANA, Ala. – Seven new building permits have been recently issued across Alabama for construction projects exceeding $1 million for projects in the Birmingham metro area, Huntsville and Auburn. The most expensive is for a $440 million data center conversion project in Columbiana.

The project will convert the existing facility, a former bitcoin mining center, into a Tier 3 data center, purpose-built to support high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.

US Data Centers, a subsidiary of Digihost Technology Inc., is leading the transformation project at its Columbiana facility. It will be executed in two phases, with a total planned capacity of 55MW. The first phase, scheduled for completion in 2026, will deliver 22MW of HPC capacity, requiring an investment of $176 million.

The second phase, expected by in early 2027, will add 33MW, bringing the total investment to $440 million. The development will be financed primarily through debt, leveraging anticipated future revenues.

A $7 million building permit has been issued to Dunn Building Co. for part of this project.

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07/06/2026

Let’s see those 4th of July celebrations on Lay Lake!