The data center fight in Clayton County, Georgia
As of September 27, 2026, Clayton County, Georgia has a data center moratorium in force (action taken 2025-09-03; documented end date 2026-12-31).
Status is derived, not stored — a pause with a documented end date flips to Expired on its own — and the source is right next to the claim.
Status today
120-day moratorium (Resolution 2025-193) on data center permits in unincorporated county; extended three times, now through Dec 31 2026. Does not cover Lovejoy. Sponsored by Vice Chair Alaina Reaves; studying health, safety and welfare effects.
SourceRoundup
read 2026-09-06
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
The project on the table
Stillwater data center campus (Panhandle Road) — Withdrawn
Filing LLC: The Stillwater Group, LLC · Size: 1,250 MW
Stillwater Development's 15-building, 3.5 million sq ft campus at 11760 Panhandle Road — 1.25 GW at full build, sited across from Michelle Obama Elementary and Eddie White Middle school traffic — was withdrawn at an Aug 6, 2026 council meeting after strong community opposition; plans were first filed in December 2025. The developer is pivoting to residential development, and Mayor Marci Fluellyn said the city will begin updating its zoning to prohibit data centers.
Next: Withdrawn — confirm it is dead in the record and watch for the same site resurfacing under a new name or LLC.
Latest in the record
- 2026-08-06 — The proposal for a 15-building, 3.5 million sq ft, 1.25 GW data center campus at 11760 Panhandle Road was withdrawn at a Lovejoy council meeting; developers are pursuing residential development for the site instead. · source
- 2026-08-06 — Lovejoy's mayor and council voted unanimously to proceed with rescinding the project's permit; Mayor Fluellyn said a withdrawal from the DRI process would follow the next day. · source
Full dated timeline on the project tracker.
Source. Read 2026-08-14.
What to do next
- Questions to ask at the hearing — force specific answers onto the record.
- Estimate the impact — electricity, water, and rate pressure for any facility size in Georgia.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Georgia briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Georgia
- Forest Park (5 mi) — Enactedexpires 2026-11-29
- Fayetteville (9 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Georgia (HB 1012) (15 mi) — Rejectedterm not documented
- Atlanta (15 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- DeKalb County (17 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-03-30
- Palmetto (18 mi) — Enactedno end date — permanent
- Rockdale County (21 mi) — Expiredterm ran to 2026-09-08
- Griffin (21 mi) — Expiredterm ran to 2026-07-12
All 46 tracked actions in Georgia are on the state page.
As of August 2026 · changes weekly — re-check before citing
Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.
Part of the U.S. data center moratorium tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0.