Georgia: data centers & your electric bill
The numbers residents cite at hearings — grid, water, and regulator contacts for Georgia, from the free GridWatch toolkit.
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As of July 2026 · changes over months · Source: U.S. Data Center Power Map by State — ElectricChoice.com compilation (updated July 2026; CC-BY 4.0). Underlying load research: LBNL 2024 US Data Center Energy Usage Report; rates: EIA
Facility counts vary by directory because each one draws the boundary differently — DataCenterMap lists 44 in Alabama where this table says 35, since it counts small network rooms alongside hyperscale campuses. Cite the TWh figure rather than the facility count when you can; it is the number that speaks to grid impact. Underlying load research is LBNL-2001637 (Dec 2024).
Your regulator
Georgia Public Service Commission — website · file a complaint
Official state energy data: EIA Georgia electricity profile — generation, prices, and consumption from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Pushback already happening in Georgia
| Where | Level | Status | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeKalb County | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-03-30 | Extended 6-1 through Mar 30, 2027 — two weeks after the commission rejected the planning department's proposed data center zoning rules, so the pause is now the only thing holding the line | Source read 2026-08-04 |
| Paulding County | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-01-01 | Suspends new data center applications, zoning requests and civil plan reviews through Dec 31, 2026 | Source read 2026-08-04 |
| Cherokee County | Local | Enactedexpires soon — 2026-08-21 | 30-day pause, with a stated plan to extend it into early 2027 — the short term is procedural, not the real horizon | Source read 2026-08-04 |
| Walker County | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-02-03 | 30-day pause adopted Jul 9, extended unanimously to 180 days on Aug 7 with a data center study group (report due Dec 4, 2026). Unincorporated county only | Source read 2026-08-13 |
| Augusta | Local | Enactedexpires soon — 2026-09-19 | Commissioners declined to adopt the proposed data center ordinance and extended the existing moratorium 60 more days instead | Source read 2026-08-04 |
| Gordon County | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-01-29 | Moratoriums on data centers and anaerobic digestion facilities extended through Jan 29, 2027 while staff drafts ordinances | Source read 2026-08-04 |
| Carroll County | Local | Enacted | 100-day pause on permits for data centers and battery energy storage in unincorporated areas, later extended another 100 days. The current end date is not documented in the coverage read — confirm before citing it as active | Source read 2026-08-04 |
| Georgia (HB 1012) | State | Proposed | Would bar local permits for new data centers until Mar 1, 2027, exempting approvals issued before Jul 1, 2026 | Source read 2026-08-04 |
| Hogansville | Local | Enactedexpires soon — 2026-09-01 | 90-day moratorium on data-center applications, extended 30 days in Jul 2026 (to approximately early Sep 2026) while the city develops a new data-center ordinance with consultant Canvas Planning and a citizen input committee. QTS (Eagle South LLC) has proposed a 600 MW facility | Source read 2026-08-13 |
| Cobb County | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-02-15 | 180-day moratorium enacted Feb 2026, extended an additional 180 days ~Aug 2026; unincorporated areas only. Ordinance changes in progress | Source read 2026-08-13 |
| Columbia County | Local | Proposed | 180-day moratorium proposed at commission meeting by chair candidate Cambrey Wood; citizens group also presented model ordinance. Would not affect two already-approved data centers. No vote yet | Source read 2026-08-15 |
| Athens-Clarke County | Local | Enacted | Moratorium adopted Dec 2025, extended 3 months in Mar 2026 while an ordinance is drafted. Waiting on state-level legislation before finalising local rules | Source read 2026-08-13 |
| Palmetto | Local | Enacted | Permanent ban — city council unanimously rewrote the industrial zoning code to exclude data centers entirely | Source read 2026-08-13 |
| Hall County | Local | Enactedexpires soon — 2026-08-25 | 180-day moratorium on data centers, high-density residential, and detention centers, approved 4-0. Staff examining regulations for impacts on county services and infrastructure | Source read 2026-08-13 |
| Coweta County | Local | Enactedexpires 2026-12-23 | 180-day moratorium; five previously proposed data centers (including the \$17B Project Sail) are exempt under vested-rights doctrine. Expires Dec 23 or when the board adopts ordinance amendments | Source read 2026-08-13 |
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.
Known data center campuses in Georgia
| Operator | Location | Tenant | Filing LLC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas County | Land-acquisition shells: Jet Stream LLC, Sharka LLC | ||
| Meta | Stanton Springs (Newton Co.) | Meta | Codename shells: Greater Kudu, Raven Northbrook, Stadion, Wobniar, Pinnacle Mountain |
| Microsoft | Greater Atlanta | Microsoft | Project-name / generic 'Holdings LLC'; less consistently codenamed |
⏳ No verification date recorded · changes over months · Source: Operator ownership & filing-LLC naming patterns — compiled from operator releases and county filings, then checked against SEC EDGAR full-text search. Composite, not a single citation: look the entity up yourself before naming it in a filing
Each row carries its own attribution level — first-party rows come from the operator's own site, but colocation and REIT ownership was compiled from trade press and never passed an independent fact-check. Check the attribution column before citing a row.
Every data center already built in Georgia
The campuses above are the ones GridWatch tracks by operator and filing LLC. For the full inventory — street addresses of every existing facility, including the smaller colocation and network sites — DataCenterMap keeps a public directory for Georgia.
Browse the Georgia directory →
Two caveats before you cite it at a hearing: it lists facilities that already exist, so a newly proposed campus will not appear; and it counts a small network room the same as a hyperscale campus, so the facility count is not a measure of power draw or community impact.
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