A wave of data center construction is moving through metro Atlanta as artificial intelligence workloads push operators to add capacity across several Georgia counties. The activity spans new campuses, ground up builds, and expansions of existing footprints south and west of the city.
In Fulton County, T5 Data Centers acquired a 91 acre site in South Fulton for three buildings totaling roughly 1.32 million square feet, with utility service expected to come online in 2026. Microsoft is developing the Palmetto Data Center on 20 acres in the city of Palmetto and broke ground in 2024, while additional large projects, including the Stonewall Tell Data Center and a campus in Union City, are slated to begin in 2026. Vantage Data Centers is building a facility of more than 750,000 square feet in South Fulton, with completion scheduled for early 2028.
Douglas County continues to anchor the region's cloud presence. Google, which already operates in Lithia Springs, plans to build a second Georgia data center. In Fayette County, QTS is developing a campus in Fayetteville known as Project Excalibur, a build expected to cost more than 1 billion dollars and include up to 16 buildings on a 615 acre site.
Together the projects represent millions of square feet of new capacity concentrated in Fulton, Douglas, and Fayette counties. The scale reflects how AI driven computing demand has turned metro Atlanta into one of the most active data center markets in the Southeast, drawing major operators competing for land, power, and connectivity near the regional core.
Source: ConstructConnect - https://www.constructconnect.com/construction-economic-news/ai-fueling-data-center-construction-boom-in-georgia