Project dossier · Atlanta, Georgia

xAI QTS Atlanta In review

Chip types: H100,A100. Epoch AI estimates ~17 MW.

Key facts

Operator
SpaceXAI
Owner
SpaceXAI
Size
17 MW
Location
Atlanta, Georgia
Stage today
In review

Source
read 2026-08-14

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 (3 events)

  • 2024-01-23incentive
    Development Authority of Fulton County considered a $700,000,000 inducement and final bond resolution for X Corp. (f/k/a Twitter, Inc.) to acquire and install high-performance computing and AI infrastructure at 1025 Jefferson Street NW, Atlanta (QTS DC2), with the project described as competing with Portland and other locations. · source
  • 2024-01-23vote
    Development Authority of Fulton County approved X Corp.'s $700M bond resolution 6-2 (Long and Lamont voting no), subject to a satisfactory corporate citizenship agreement, after X Corp. representatives confirmed the transaction covers equipment only and would retain 24 jobs plus 50 vendor employees. · source
  • 2024-01-23public-comment
    Howell Station Neighborhood Association president Arthur Toal submitted to the DAFC board a Georgia Tech AI PhD candidate's analysis arguing X Corp.'s $700M equipment refit would not deliver the claimed economic benefits because the investment involves no new construction. · 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.

  • Search Atlanta 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 Atlanta 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 33.780, -84.410 — 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.

Recent news

28 stories tracked since 2026-06-22 across 18 outlets. 22× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. 4× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. Most recent: “Metro Atlanta colleges partner with Microsoft to train workers for data center boom” (The Business Journals, 2026-09-30).

+16 more on the story tracker.

Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 28 headlines archived.

Around here

Other tracked projects in Georgia

Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “xAI QTS Atlanta”, aigridwatch.com/projects/xai-qts-atlanta, 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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