The disclosure and our analysis
Evidence dates
Evidence: Georgia Department of Community Affairs Development of Regional Impact (DRI) filing #4861, initial form submitted October 26, 2026 and additional form shown as submitted on the state's DRI list, all read October 27, 2026. Putnam County news item on its data center moratorium, posted August 12, 2026 and updated with an October 21, 2026 extension, read October 27, 2026. Putnam County proposed Chapter 53 ordinance, read October 27, 2026.
What the filing discloses
Georgia's DRI process asks the local government to describe large projects so the regional commission can review their regional effects. Putnam County submitted the forms. The state does not approve or deny the project; zoning decisions stay with the local government. [Source 1] [Source 3]
1. **Project:** Eatonton 379, described as a data center development on about 543 acres of land with about 11 buildings that total about 3,501,600 square feet. The project size field gives 3,510,000 square feet. [Source 1]
2. **Location:** unincorporated Putnam County, at GPS coordinates 33.304423, -83.406540. The traffic section names Glenwood Spring Road as the road the two driveways would use. [Source 1] [Source 2]
3. **Developer:** Eatonton 379, LLC. The filing lists separate property owners. [Source 1]
4. **Approvals sought:** a rezoning and a conditional use. The filing says the project is not a phase of a larger project and gives 2031 as the estimated completion date. [Source 1]
5. **Power:** the filing names Tri-County EMC or Georgia Power Company as the energy supplier and lists an estimated peak connected electrical load of about 520 MW. It answers yes to whether existing transmission and distribution infrastructure is sufficient. It also answers yes to planned on-site generation beyond backup diesel generators, describing it as: the development will have substations, and the developer will work with the City of Eatonton to address any on-site generation needs. [Source 2]
6. **Economics:** estimated value at build-out of about $3.5 billion, about $37.35 million in estimated annual local tax revenue, and about 100 full-time employees. These are estimates entered on the form. [Source 2]
7. **Water and wastewater:** the Eatonton-Putnam Water and Sewer Authority is named for both, with estimated water demand of 0.075 million gallons per day and sewage flow of 0.07 million gallons per day. [Source 2]
How to read the megawatts
The 520 MW figure is the filing's estimated peak connected electrical load. It is not a critical IT load, a utility service commitment or leasable capacity, and the filing does not split it by building or phase. The filing does not say whether Tri-County EMC or Georgia Power has agreed to serve the load, and it names both as possible suppliers. The answer that existing transmission is sufficient is the filer's response on the form; we found no utility statement confirming it.
Local rules in motion
Putnam County's Board of Commissioners enacted a moratorium by resolution dated August 7, 2026 on the consideration of and action on any land development permit to allow the installation, construction or establishment of data centers, battery energy storage systems and solar energy systems. It was set to run three months, to November 6, 2026. On October 21, 2026, the board extended it to November 17, 2026. [Source 4]
The county has also posted proposed changes to its code, a new Chapter 53 covering energy creation, energy storage and digital infrastructure. As drafted, data centers would be a conditional use in the Agricultural district, permitted in the I-M Industrial-Manufacturing and Public districts, and prohibited in residential and commercial districts. The draft would cap data center buildings at 75 feet, require a 200-foot buffer along property lines that abut a residential district, limit sound to 55 dBA as an hourly average at property lines with existing homes or residential zoning, and require a closed-loop cooling system. These are proposed terms; the reviewed county pages do not show the ordinance as adopted. [Source 4] [Source 5]
Status
On our status vocabulary, Eatonton 379 is Proposed as of October 27, 2026: the developer is seeking a rezoning and a conditional use from Putnam County, and a state DRI review has been filed. No zoning approval, utility agreement, construction, energization or availability is established by the reviewed sources. The county's data center moratorium was in effect through at least November 17, 2026 as of the extension.
Buyer analysis
This is our analysis, not the filer's. The useful facts are the size and the timeline. About 520 MW of estimated peak load across 3.5 million square feet with a 2031 completion date is a long dated hyperscale scale project, not near-term capacity. The filing does not name an end user or operator.
The local path is the gating item. The project needs a rezoning and a conditional use from a county that has paused data center permits while it writes new rules. If the draft Chapter 53 is adopted as posted, its buffer, height, sound and closed-loop cooling terms would shape what can be built. Buyers watching middle Georgia should track the November county actions and the regional commission's DRI finding.
We have not assigned this project to a tracked market. Putnam County lies outside the metro areas Colocation Scout covers in Georgia.
