Project dossier · Palmetto (South Fulton County), Georgia

T5@ATL IV (Palmetto) In review

New multi-building Atlanta-area campus scalable to 300MW with on-site substation, expected operational in 2026.

Key facts

Operator
T5 Data Centers
Size
300 MW
Acres
91
Location
Palmetto (South Fulton County), Georgia
Stage today
In review

Source

What to do next

Next step: An application is in the record. Ask the planning office for the next hearing date and request formal notice.

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What has happened so far (7 events)

  • 2024-06-12filing
    T5 Data Centers filed a preliminary Development of Regional Impact (DRI) application with the Atlanta Regional Commission for a two-building, 495,000-sq-ft data center campus off I-85 and Gullatt Road near Fairburn, its third south-Atlanta-area campus at the time. · source
  • 2024-07-16withdrawal
    T5 withdrew its original DRI application, which by that point had grown to a proposed 2.95 million-sq-ft, 300MW campus across seven buildings. · source
  • 2024-08-28announcement
    T5 finalized acquisition of the 91-acre Palmetto/South Fulton County site and publicly announced the ATL IV campus, describing it as scalable up to 300MW with an on-site substation targeted for 2026 operation and liquid cooling to support AI workloads. · source
  • 2025-05-05filing
    T5 submitted a revised, scaled-down DRI application for ATL IV consisting of three data center buildings totaling up to 1,320,000 sq ft along Gullatt Road, with supporting access roads, parking, utilities, and stormwater infrastructure. · source
  • 2025-11-01report
    The Atlanta Regional Commission completed its Development of Regional Impact review of the revised ATL IV application, a milestone reported as clearing the way toward construction; the Fairburn portion of the site already held full zoning/permits under existing industrial designation. · source
  • 2026-01-07hearing
    The City of Palmetto held a special city council session that advanced discussion of a potential economic development agreement tied to the T5 project. · source
  • 2026-03-01moratorium
    The Palmetto City Council unanimously approved a rewritten industrial zoning code that permanently excludes data centers from the city, following community concern that had built up around the T5 project and area data-center growth; Mayor Teresa Thomas-Smith cited an "overall disinterest" in the warehouse-like structures. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

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.
  • 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.

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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “T5@ATL IV (Palmetto)”, aigridwatch.com/projects/t5-palmetto-ga, retrieved 2026-10-11.

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