CoreWeave Dalton 1 & 2
Chip types: B300. Epoch AI estimates ~28 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- CoreWeave
- Owner
- CoreWeave
- Tenant
- OpenAI
- Size
- 28 MW
- Location
- Dalton, Georgia
- Stage today
Source
read 2026-08-14
What to do next
Next step: Already operating — the leverage now is enforcement: noise and water conditions, tax revenue tracking, and any expansion filing, which reopens the record.
What has happened so far (4 events)
- 2025-07-07financing
CoreWeave announced a definitive agreement to acquire Core Scientific in an all-stock transaction (implied equity value ~$9.0 billion), which would have given CoreWeave ownership of Core Scientific's ~1.3 GW gross power footprint, including its Georgia facilities. · source - 2025-10-30coverage
Core Scientific shareholders voted against the proposed $9 billion CoreWeave merger (20.8M for, 203.5M against). The merger agreement was terminated with immediate effect; Core Scientific continues operating independently. · source - 2026-05-06operational
In its Q1 FY2026 earnings materials, Core Scientific stated that its Dalton, GA site has delivered Phase 1 (30 MW) with full completion targeted for early 2027, and that Dalton is one of five sites under its anchor hosting agreement with CoreWeave, with approximately 175 MW of contracted capacity. · source - 2026-05-25permit
Georgia EPD opened a public comment period on Application No. 29946, an air permit for Core Scientific's Dalton 01 facility at 2205 Industrial South Road covering 8 standby diesel generators with a combined maximum output of 21.6 MW. · source
Find the paper trail
Find the paper trail (1 filed · 11 places to look)
Permits already on file (1)
Filings we have a source for — the record, not a place to look for one.
- 2026-05-25
Georgia EPD opened a public comment period on Application No. 29946, an air permit for Core Scientific's Dalton 01 facility at 2205 Industrial South Road covering 8 standby diesel generators with a combined maximum output of 21.6 MW. · source
State environmental permits
Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.
- Georgia EPD — Air Protection BranchThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- Search Georgia EPD — Air Protection Branch for this projectsearchThis state publishes no searchable permit database, so a written records request to the agency is the reliable route. Use this search only to find the right office.
County & town filings
The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.
- Search Dalton planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
- Search Dalton property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.
Utility & grid records
The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.
- No organised market covers this statenoteThere is no public queue to read. The record is the utility's integrated resource plan and its filings at the PUC — plus FERC eLibrary for anything federally docketed.
- Georgia Public Service Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
- FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
- Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.
Federal databases
Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.
- EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 34.730, -84.960 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
- EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
- EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.
These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.
Around here
- Georgia briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “CoreWeave Dalton 1 & 2”, aigridwatch.com/projects/coreweave-dalton-1-2, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.
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