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A 4.2 million-square-foot data center campus is being proposed in Monroe County, according to filings with the state.
The estimated value of the build-out would be about $1.12 billion, and the estimated local tax revenue that the project could generate each year is about $20 million, according to a development of regional impact filing on Oct. 14.
The developer is Datacore Innovations LLC. According to records with the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, the principal office of the business is at Capital Land Group LLC. David Aldridge is both the CEO of Capital Land Group and senior vice president of Datacore Innovations.
The proposed project would be located off of Rumble Road near Interstate 75. It would span three parcels that total about 496 acres, according to property records. Each is owned by different businesses: Diastole LLC, Madura Properties LLC and Prime Places LLC.
The parcels are described as rural and woodlands. The properties would need to be rezoned, and the project is located in, or likely to impact, wetlands and flood plains.
The project would require an estimated water supply of 2 million gallons per day, and a water line extension would not be needed to serve the project. The property would create about 0.03 millions of gallons of sewer flow a day.
About 2,700 tons of waste would be generated annually.
The project is expected to be completed in December 2038 and is the latest data center project to be proposed in Georgia, where more are expected.
While multiple projects have been proposed in metro Atlanta in counties such as Douglas and Henry, Monroe County is about 67 miles south of the city of Atlanta and about 20 miles north of Macon.
The proposed development is near Juliette, Georgia, a community that according to ProPublica has been plagued by groundwater contamination potentially associated with coal ash — a by-product of coal burning — from the nearby Georgia Power Plant Scherer.
Data centers support web service infrastructure, the demand for which continues to increase, especially with the development of artificial intelligence.
These centers can provide a tax base to local communities and bring temporary construction jobs. The centers require large amounts of land, water and electricity and provide a limited number of good-paying jobs.
Monroe County will also have a new natural gas power plant owned by Oglethorpe Power, which could support the energy needs for the center as well as other new economic development projects and residential growth. However, a representative for the utility said the plant is meant to meet electricity demand from new residential and commercial growth, and it was not specifically planned to meet this new data center’s needs.
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