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Developer Withdraws Fayetteville, Georgia Data Center Application

Real estate firm Crow Holdings Development and CHI/Acquisitions have effectively withdrawn their application to build a data center in Fayetteville, Georgia.Although the project was rejected by the city’s planning and zoning commission in late January, Crow Holdings had planned to appeal the d...

March 21, 2026

Georgia

200-acre “Project Azalea” Data Center Approved Near Augusta, Georgia

Local authorities have approved the 200-acre ‘Project Azalea’ data center in McDuffie County, Georgia. Commissioners backed the project in a 4–1 vote; officials estimate it will be worth $1 billion and generate about $25 million in annual local tax revenue. The project will include six data ce...

March 18, 2026

Georgia

A $5 Billion Data Center Project is in Development near Columbus, Georgia

A new data center campus may be on the way to Columbus, Georgia. Economic development organization Choose Columbus announced that the Development Authority of Columbus is in negotiations with Habitat Partners to secure a site for the proposed project.Project Ruby would be a $5 billion+ data ce...

March 03, 2026

Georgia

Georgia-Based Film Studio Considers Converting to Data Center

Athens, Georgia-based Athena Studios is considering converting into a data center, its CEO Joel Harber has said. The film studio has seen a significant decline in movie production demand, according to Harber, which has led to an “oversupply of space and an undersupply of demand.”Athena Studios...

January 03, 2026

Georgia

Georgia Power Proposes $16bn Plan to Add 10GW of New Generation Capacity

US utility Georgia Power and the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) have submitted a proposal to add up to 10GW of new generation capacity over the next five years. The $16 billion plan aims to meet surging demand across its footprint from the data center sector, with around 90 percent of...

December 11, 2025

Georgia

Core Scientific Shareholders Vote Against Acquisition by CoreWeave

CoreWeave's planned acquisition of data center provider Core Scientific has been brought to a sudden stop. An SEC filing from Core Scientific published today, October 30, stated that at a "special meeting" to discuss the acquisition, the "requisite Company stockholders did not approve the Merg...

October 30, 2025

Core Scientific

Core Scientific's Largest Shareholder Opposes CoreWeave Acquisition

Core Scientific's largest shareholder, Two Seas Capital LP, has announced its opposition to the $9bn acquisition proposed by CoreWeave. The alternative investment manager shared its dissatisfaction with the terms proposed on July 7, which would see AI cloud firm CoreWeave acquiring developer C...

August 08, 2025

Core Scientific

Georgia PSC Approves New Billing Rules for Data Centers

The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has voted to approve a new rule that allows new large-load Georgia Power customers using more than 100MW of electricity to be billed based on the risks associated with their projects.The rule, which passed unanimously, requires data centers to pay th...

January 28, 2025

Georgia

$17bn data center campus proposed in Atlanta, Georgia

A 13-building data center campus costing $17 billion has been proposed for Atlanta, Georgia. The campus would be built on 832 acres of land near the city of Newnan, 45 miles south of Atlanta in Coweta County. The site is adjacent to Welcome Sargent Road and Wagers Mill Road.Each of the data ha...

January 04, 2025

Georgia

CoreWeave and Core Scientific launch 100MW data center in Oklahoma

CoreWeave and Core Scientific this week announced ground had been broken on a 100MW facility in the Port of Muskogee in West Oklahoma. The facility will provide approximately 70MW of critical IT load, with the remaining 30MW powering ancillary systems required to ensure optimal GPU performance...

November 26, 2024

CoreWeave

Georgia governor vetoes bill to pause data center tax breaks after it had passed both houses

Gov. Brian Kemp this week decided to veto HB 1192, a bill that would pause tax breaks for data centers in Georgia after it had passed both houses.In a statement explaining the veto, Governor Kemp said the state extended data center exemptions to 2031 just two years ago, with projects starting ...

May 11, 2024

Georgia

Georgia Power increases capacity to meet data center demand

Electric utility Georgia Power (GP) has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to increase its generation capacity with both fossil fuels and renewable energy to meet power demand from data centers. This agreement will also allow Georgia Power to contract generation...

April 17, 2024

Georgia

Land in Fayetteville, Georgia Annexed & Rezoned For Data Center Development

Despite protests from residents of Fayette County, Georgia, county officials have voted to annex and rezone over 400 acres of land for the development of a data center office park. The council voted 5-0 to see the land located on Tyrone Road rezoned for data center development. The rezoning wi...

July 01, 2022

Georgia

Fayetteville Georgia Looking To Annex Land For a $1 billion Data Center

Fayette County is looking to annex 412 acres of land for a $1 billion data center project in Fayetteville. The city council will meet before the week runs out to discuss annexing this land for a data center campus that can span 1.5 million square feet with 250MW of capacity. In recent years, d...

April 20, 2022

Georgia

Georgia Wants To Extend its Data Center Tax Exemptions Further

Georgia is looking to extend its tax exemptions for data centers by another five years. Earlier in 2018, the US state introduced the current sales tax exemptions for data centers through HB 696. The bill provides tax exemptions if it meets certain job creation thresholds and investments over a...

March 18, 2022

Georgia

Augusta data center plans curbed

A data center proposed for the site of a former cotton mill in Augusta, Georgia, is no longer ahead. Back in 2016, Cape Augusta Real Estate Development announced redevelopment plans for the site and outlined the project would go ahead under the name ‘Augusta Cyberworks.’ Original plans for the...

November 09, 2021

Georgia

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