Metro Atlanta has become one of the fastest-growing data center markets in the United States, with major construction now under way in Douglas and Fayette counties as technology companies expand infrastructure to support artificial intelligence and cloud computing workloads.
In Douglas County, Google operates an established campus in Lithia Springs and Microsoft began construction on a new Douglasville facility with 144 megawatts of critical load capacity. DC BLOX closed $1.15 billion in green loan financing in 2025 for a 100-acre data center campus in Lithia Springs, one of the largest infrastructure investments in the county's history.
In Fayette County, Fayetteville officials enacted a temporary moratorium on new data center proposals, pausing development to assess potential impacts on water supply, energy infrastructure, and land use as resident concerns grew. The moratorium followed community questions about power line construction and the potential use of eminent domain to acquire property for transmission infrastructure required to serve incoming facilities.
Georgia Power received state regulatory approval for a major generation expansion tied to rising electricity demand driven in part by data center load growth across metro Atlanta. The company projects approximately 8,200 megawatts of load growth over the next six years. The Georgia legislature ended its 2026 session without passing measures that would have regulated data center development, scaled back tax exemptions, or required large electricity users to cover a greater share of infrastructure costs.
Source: Inside Climate News -- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13042026/georgia-data-center-boom/