Metro Atlanta has become one of the most active data center markets in the country, and Douglas County west of the city sits at the center of the expansion. Amazon Web Services is investing roughly 11 billion dollars across two major facilities in Georgia, with one campus in Douglas County, part of a wave of hyperscale construction reshaping the region.
The county pipeline runs deep. DC BLOX closed 1.15 billion dollars in green loan financing for a campus spanning about 100 acres in Lithia Springs. Vantage Data Centers filed plans for a 1.7 million square foot campus in the county, and Stream Data Centers is developing a 1.3 million square foot project along Jason Industrial Parkway and North Baggett Road that would include nine buildings and two substations.
Fulton County is drawing its own share. Microsoft is building the Palmetto data center on a site that can span up to 116 acres, with completion expected in 2028, while T5 Data Centers is developing a three-building campus totaling roughly 1.32 million square feet in South Fulton, where utility service is expected to come online in 2026. Edged Energy has broken ground on a planned 180 megawatt campus in the county as well.
Local officials and developers describe strong hyperscale interest driven by artificial intelligence workloads. The scale of the projects has also sharpened questions about power supply and water use, since each large campus adds substantial load to the regional grid and requires new substation capacity to connect.
Source: Data Center Frontier - https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/33011438/atlanta-prepares-for-data-center-building-boom-amid-growing-interest-from-hyperscale-users