Mar 21, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Real estate firm Crow Holdings Development and CHI/Acquisitions have effectively withdrawn their application to build a data center in Fayetteville, Georgia.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 decision at a city council meeting scheduled for this week.
But the developer seems to have given up by withdrawing its application, according to a press release issued by the City of Fayetteville on Facebook.
“Crow Holdings Development and CHI/Acquisitions, LP has officially withdrawn their appeal to build a new data center north of the Fayette Pavilion shopping center along Highway 85 North,” reads the post.
If a data center developer seeks to build on land that isn’t properly zoned, the final decision typically lies with the highest local authority rather than the planning and zoning board.
However, since the land in question was already zoned for data center use, the Planning and Zoning Commission’s rejection of the site plan left Crow Holdings with only one option: appeal the decision to the City Council.
The data center would have been built on a 37.4-acre land parcel on Highway 85 North, offering 300,000 sq ft (28,000 sqm) of space at completion. It would be composed of a single two-story data center building, as well as a substation. The use of the data center for cryptomining would also have been prohibited, according to supporting documentation.
