Four Atlanta-area sites filed for data center campuses or buildings in Q3 as thirteen local governments paused new projects.

Microsoft and Thor Acquisition sent campuses to the state's regional review, DC Blox and Coweta's Project Peach filed for buildings, and thirteen local governments paused new data center applications.

What happened this quarter

Four sites filed for new campuses or buildings

Four sites filed for new data center campuses or buildings in Q3 in the records reviewed. Two entered the state's review of developments of regional impact, which every Georgia local government files for large projects. Union City filed Microsoft's ATL50 on September 15: two three-story buildings totalling 910,000 square feet on 88 acres off Stonewall Tell Road. Kingston filed the Kingston Technology Hub on September 4, one building of about 350,000 square feet on 559 acres. A third, Stillwater Technology Park in Lovejoy, about 3,465,000 square feet, was filed on July 22 and withdrawn on August 10. In Rockdale, DC Blox applied on September 22 for the shell of a further building on its Farmer Road campus. In Coweta, construction drawings for Project Peach, a campus rezoned in April 2025, were filed on September 30.

Two counties turned campuses down, two cities approved projects

Two county boards denied data center campuses. Douglas County's commissioners denied East Village Dothan, about 4.5 million square feet on some 700 acres near Villa Rica, by 4-1 on July 7, and Coweta's board denied LDO Coweta's five-building campus on Walt Sanders Road by 5-0 on August 25. DeKalb's commissioners denied 7-0 on August 13 a special land use permit for utility structures on Loveless Place in Ellenwood, a site its staff report describes as a one million square foot data center campus. Cartersville went the other way on September 3, rezoning DataBank's Industrial Park Road site by 6-0 after a June regional filing that states 200 MW of critical IT load. Marietta approved a data infrastructure use for part of a building at 1155 Powers Ferry Place on August 12. Rockdale heard the Project Rockforge campus on September 24, with no decision recorded in the quarter.

Thirteen local governments paused new projects

Thirteen local governments adopted or extended a data center moratorium in the quarter. DeKalb extended its pause in July, Cobb extended its own by up to 180 days, and Cherokee adopted a 30-day moratorium in July and a 180-day one in August. Marietta, Roswell, Milton, Paulding, Carroll, Rockdale, Forest Park, Meriwether, Morgan County and Madison also acted. Others wrote rules instead: South Fulton replaced its data center ordinance, Roswell, Dawson and Bartow adopted standards, and Chattahoochee Hills removed data processing from its zoning uses. Atlanta's council has held a proposed exception for a data center site in Adair Park in committee since July.

More data halls inside existing buildings, and a gas plant for a data center

No new data center building was filed in the City of Atlanta in Q3. The city's filings add data space inside existing buildings. An Edged application filed on August 20 would fit out data halls on two floors at 1968 Marietta Road, at an estimated $44,445,616 as filed, and filings at 55 Marietta Street in July and September would convert office floors to data facilities. In Newton County, the state issued an air permit on September 18 for a 90 MW gas-fired plant on Hazelbrand Road that the permit says will supply prime power to a nearby Serverfarm facility. Two days earlier the state had settled with its developer, VoltaGrid, over engines installed before a permit.

Sites filing to add data center capacity, by quarter

A site counts once in a quarter however many permits it files. The counts come from the state's regional impact register, which covers every local government in the 29 counties but only projects above its size thresholds, from building permits in the City of Atlanta and the Gwinnett, Clayton, Rockdale and Newton registers, and from local planning applications that carry a filing date. Many cities and counties publish no searchable permit register, so a quarter can be missing a filing.

What to watch next

1. October 2026. Coweta's board is to hold a hearing at its second October meeting, date to be set, on possibly rezoning the Project Peach site. Published record.
2. October 26, 2026. Kingston's council is scheduled to hold its first hearing on annexing 561.51 acres, the Kingston Technology Hub site, with final action set for November 2. Published record.
3. November 6, 2026. Comments close on the state air permit application for Amazon's ATL 114 campus on South Flat Rock Road in Douglasville. Published record.

The records behind the findings

Sources and revisions

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