AI data center sites in Georgia
138 Georgia counties scored on transmission, the interconnection queue, power price and tax. Updated October 18, 2026.
Open a county for its queue requests, substations, plants and data centers.
| County | Score | Pipeline | Power price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | 1.4 GW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 66 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 66 | 804 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 64 | 6 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 62 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 62 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 62 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 62 | 50 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 60 | 76 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 58 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 58 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 58 | 261 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 57 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 57 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 54 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 54 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 54 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 52 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 52 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 52 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 52 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 51 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 51 | 58 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 49 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 49 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 49 | 250 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 49 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 48 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 48 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 47 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 47 | 262 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 46 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 46 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 46 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 46 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 45 | 150 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 45 | 2.5 GW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 45 | 140 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 44 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 44 | 107 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 43 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 43 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 43 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 43 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 43 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 43 | 150 MW | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 43 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 42 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 42 | - | 8.0¢/kWh | |
| 42 | - | 8.0¢/kWh |
Pipeline: active generation and storage requests in the ISO queue, or EIA planned plants where larger (outside the ISOs). Top kV: highest substation voltage. Power price: the state's industrial average. DCs: GPU colocation, mining sites and AI campuses.
What the data shows
The strongest Georgia counties for a large AI load are Coweta County (68), Fulton County (66) and Monroe County (66) on the site score. Georgia sits in utility territory; EIA lists 6.9 GW of planned generators there, and it has 26 substations at 345 kV and up.
Industrial power averaged 8.0¢/kWh (EIA, July 2026 YTD), against 8.2¢/kWh a year earlier, the 16th lowest of the 50 states and DC. Georgia has a data center sales and use tax exemption in force. We track 4 AI campuses and 37 GPU-ready colocation facilities here.
Top 6 counties in detail
1. Coweta CountyUtility: Southern Company
Site score 68 of 100
- Transmission
- 18/25
- Generation pipeline
- 12/20
- Industrial power price
- 18/20
- Existing and retiring plants
- 6/15
- Sales tax exemption
- 10/10
- Data center activity
- 4/10
- Market
- Utility: Southern Company
- Queue (active)
- 0 MW
- Agreement signed
- 0 MW
- Planned plants (EIA)
- 1.4 GW
- Top substation
- 230 kV
- Substations 230 kV+
- 5
- Operating plants
- 807 MW
- Retired or retiring
- 0 MW
- Industrial power, GA
- 8.0¢/kWh
- Sales tax exemption
- Yes
Substations, 115 kV and up
- Unnamed · 9 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 9 lines230 kV
- YATES · 8 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 4 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 3 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 4 lines115 kV
- Unnamed · 3 lines115 kV
- Unnamed · 3 lines115 kV
Planned, retiring and retired plants
- Yates · Gas, planned 20271.4 GW
Data centers, AI campuses and mining sites
- Project Sail · AI campus, announced, 900 MW · DCD
Colocation from our GPU colocation list; mining sites from the miner AI conversion tracker.
2. Fulton CountyUtility: Southern Company
Site score 66 of 100
- Transmission
- 25/25
- Generation pipeline
- 0/20
- Industrial power price
- 18/20
- Existing and retiring plants
- 2/15
- Sales tax exemption
- 10/10
- Data center activity
- 10/10
- Market
- Utility: Southern Company
- Queue (active)
- 0 MW
- Agreement signed
- 0 MW
- Planned plants (EIA)
- 0 MW
- Top substation
- 500 kV
- Substations 230 kV+
- 16
- Operating plants
- 59 MW
- Retired or retiring
- 16 MW
- Industrial power, GA
- 8.0¢/kWh
- Sales tax exemption
- Yes
Substations, 115 kV and up
- UNION · 10 lines500 kV
- BULL SLUICE · 10 lines500 kV
- Unnamed · 12 lines230 kV
- YATES · 12 lines230 kV
- BOULEVARD · 10 lines230 kV
- JACK MCDONOUGH · 8 lines230 kV
- JACK MCDONOUGH · 8 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 7 lines230 kV
Data centers, AI campuses and mining sites
- Flexential Atlanta - Alpharetta · GPU colocation, Alpharetta, liquid cooling
- Edged Atlanta (Tilford Yard) · GPU colocation, Atlanta, 42 MW, liquid cooling
- EdgeConneX ATL02 · GPU colocation, Atlanta
- DC BLOX Atlanta (downtown) · GPU colocation, Atlanta, 12 MW
- Equinix AT4 · GPU colocation, Atlanta
- 365 Data Centers Alpharetta · GPU colocation, Alpharetta, 4.3 MW
- Cogent Atlanta · GPU colocation, Atlanta
- DataBank ATL1 · GPU colocation, Atlanta, 7.1 MW, liquid cooling
- DataBank ATL2 · GPU colocation, Atlanta, 4 MW
- DataBank ATL3 · GPU colocation, Atlanta, 6 MW
- DataBank ATL4 · GPU colocation, Atlanta, 40 MW
- Digital Realty ATL13 · GPU colocation, Atlanta
- Digital Realty ATL14 · GPU colocation, Atlanta
- EdgeConneX ATL01 · GPU colocation, Atlanta, 2.1 MW
- EdgeConneX ATL11-ATL13 (Union City) · GPU colocation, Union City, 202 MW
- Equinix AT1 · GPU colocation, Atlanta
- H5 Data Centers Atlanta · GPU colocation, Atlanta
- QTS Data Centers Atlanta 1 (DC1-DC4) · GPU colocation, Atlanta, 278 MW
- STACK Infrastructure ATL01 · GPU colocation, Alpharetta, 20 MW
- Switch The Keep (Atlanta) · GPU colocation, Atlanta, 150 MW
Colocation from our GPU colocation list; mining sites from the miner AI conversion tracker.
3. Monroe CountyUtility: Southern Company
Site score 66 of 100
- Transmission
- 17/25
- Generation pipeline
- 6/20
- Industrial power price
- 18/20
- Existing and retiring plants
- 15/15
- Sales tax exemption
- 10/10
- Data center activity
- 0/10
- Market
- Utility: Southern Company
- Queue (active)
- 0 MW
- Agreement signed
- 0 MW
- Planned plants (EIA)
- 804 MW
- Top substation
- 500 kV
- Substations 230 kV+
- 1
- Operating plants
- 2.9 GW
- Retired or retiring
- 891 MW
- Industrial power, GA
- 8.0¢/kWh
- Sales tax exemption
- Yes
Substations, 115 kV and up
- Unnamed · 4 lines500 kV
- Unnamed · 3 lines115 kV
- Unnamed · 3 lines115 kV
- Unnamed · 3 lines115 kV
- SMARR ENERGY CENTER · 2 lines115 kV
Planned, retiring and retired plants
- Scherer · Coal, retired 2022891 MW
- Smarr Combined Cycle Energy Facility · Gas, planned 2029804 MW
4. Cobb CountyUtility: Southern Company
Site score 64 of 100
- Transmission
- 25/25
- Generation pipeline
- 1/20
- Industrial power price
- 18/20
- Existing and retiring plants
- 9/15
- Sales tax exemption
- 10/10
- Data center activity
- 1/10
- Market
- Utility: Southern Company
- Queue (active)
- 0 MW
- Agreement signed
- 0 MW
- Planned plants (EIA)
- 6 MW
- Top substation
- 500 kV
- Substations 230 kV+
- 9
- Operating plants
- 2.9 GW
- Retired or retiring
- 0 MW
- Industrial power, GA
- 8.0¢/kWh
- Sales tax exemption
- Yes
Substations, 115 kV and up
- BIG SHANTY · 10 lines500 kV
- JACK MCDONOUGH · 13 lines230 kV
- BIG SHANTY · 11 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 8 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 7 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 7 lines230 kV
- BULL SLUICE · 7 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 5 lines230 kV
Data centers, AI campuses and mining sites
- 365 Data Centers Smyrna · GPU colocation, Smyrna, 4 MW
Colocation from our GPU colocation list; mining sites from the miner AI conversion tracker.
5. Effingham CountyUtility: Southern Company
Site score 62 of 100
- Transmission
- 25/25
- Generation pipeline
- 0/20
- Industrial power price
- 18/20
- Existing and retiring plants
- 9/15
- Sales tax exemption
- 10/10
- Data center activity
- 0/10
- Market
- Utility: Southern Company
- Queue (active)
- 0 MW
- Agreement signed
- 0 MW
- Planned plants (EIA)
- 0 MW
- Top substation
- 500 kV
- Substations 230 kV+
- 5
- Operating plants
- 3 GW
- Retired or retiring
- 0 MW
- Industrial power, GA
- 8.0¢/kWh
- Sales tax exemption
- Yes
Substations, 115 kV and up
- MCINTOSH · 13 lines500 kV
- BLANDFORD · 4 lines500 kV
- MELDRIM · 5 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 3 lines230 kV
- MCINTOSH COMBINED CYCLE FACILITY · 3 lines230 kV
6. Heard CountyUtility: Southern Company
Site score 62 of 100
- Transmission
- 19/25
- Generation pipeline
- 0/20
- Industrial power price
- 18/20
- Existing and retiring plants
- 15/15
- Sales tax exemption
- 10/10
- Data center activity
- 0/10
- Market
- Utility: Southern Company
- Queue (active)
- 0 MW
- Agreement signed
- 0 MW
- Planned plants (EIA)
- 0 MW
- Top substation
- 500 kV
- Substations 230 kV+
- 2
- Operating plants
- 4 GW
- Retired or retiring
- 2 GW
- Industrial power, GA
- 8.0¢/kWh
- Sales tax exemption
- Yes
Substations, 115 kV and up
- Unnamed · 9 lines500 kV
- Unnamed · 6 lines230 kV
- Unnamed · 3 lines115 kV
Planned, retiring and retired plants
- Wansley · Coal, retired 20222 GW
Data center tax exemption in Georgia
Georgia high-technology data center equipment sales and use tax exemption (O.C.G.A. 48-8-3(68.1))
State and local sales and use tax exemption for high-technology data center equipment and certain construction materials (not electricity) at certified data centers; minimum aggregate expenditures over any consecutive seven-year period are tiered by county population: $250 million and 25 new quality jobs (over 50,000 residents), $75 million and 10 jobs (30,001-50,000), or $25 million and 5 jobs (30,000 or fewer); the exemption covers purchases through December 31, 2031, and the paragraph is repealed January 1, 2032.
Recent change: A 2024 bill (HB 1192) to pause new certificates was vetoed by Gov. Kemp; in 2026 the Senate pursued repeal (SB 410) but the House left the exemption out of its tax package, so it survived the session unchanged.
Source: Office of the Governor of Georgia, 2022. General information, not tax advice; ask your tax advisor.
AI data centers being built in Georgia
| Campus | Developer | County | MW | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Sail | Prologis (from Atlas Development) | Coweta County | 900 | announced | DCDApr 2026 |
| AWS Butts County campus | Amazon Web Services | Butts County | - | announced | The RegisterJan 8, 2025 |
| Core Scientific DaltonUsers: CoreWeave, AMD-backed neocloud | Core Scientific | Whitfield County | - | operating | Core ScientificJul 28, 2026 |
| Microsoft Fairwater AtlantaUsers: Microsoft, OpenAI | Microsoft (QTS campus) | Fayette County | - | operating | Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionNov 2025 |
How the score works
Six parts out of 100: transmission (25), generation in the queue (20), the state's industrial power price (20), existing and retiring plants (15), sales tax exemption (10) and data center activity (10). The site finder's methodology prints each formula and every source with its date. Markets: Utility territory (no ISO/RTO).
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