Google has closed a significant real estate deal, purchasing 948 acres along Rumble Road near Interstate 75 in Monroe County for $42.5 million. The acquisition paves the way for a future data center facility.
The tech giant finalized the purchase in October 2025, acquiring three separate parcels from local property owners. This move follows the Monroe County commissioners' approval of C-1 zoning for the site in November 2024, which made a data center permissible on the land.
Google paid approximately $45,000 per acre across all the purchases. The three parcels break down as follows:
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.34 miles | Rumble Technology Campus |
The project, which was originally proposed in September 2024 by Data Core Innovations, will feature 12 buildings and span 4.2 million square feet.
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| 0.51 miles | Rumble Technology Expansion | |
| 3.44 miles | Bolingbroke Technology Campus |
A proposed 1.2GW data center campus near Macon, Georgia, has been denied by Monroe County in August 2025.
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| 13.40 miles | Trammel Crow: Forsyth Tech Campus |
The Forsyth Technology Campus is a massive, proposed $8.4 billion data center development located in Forsyth, Georgia, approximately 60 miles south of Atlanta.
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| 18.49 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Amazon's subsidiary, Amazon Data Services, Inc., acquired nearly 985 acres on the west side of Interstate 75 for $270 million, with the deal closing in late July 2025.
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In 2017, Google announced a commitment to power the company and its data centers entirely on renewable energy. In 2018, Google reached the 100% of their goal.
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