Developer Pitches 2M SF Data Center Campus Near Atlanta
A Georgia developer is proposing its third large-scale data center campus in the state in less than two months, this time near Atlanta.
Atlas Development submitted initial filings to Georgia officials Friday for a Bartow County data center campus the firm is calling Project Springbank. The project, first reported by Data Center Dynamics, is slated to include over 2M SF of data center space across six buildings. Atlas aims to complete construction on the campus by the end of 2031.
Located around 40 miles northwest of Atlanta, the site will need to be rezoned for the project to move forward, according to Atlas’s filing. The property’s owners are listed as The Darryl William Edwards Living Revocable Trust, King Curtis LLC and Riverside NVR LLC.
Atlas’s application provided scant details about the proposed campus, saying only that it “will utilize closed loop technology to reduce water and sewer demand.”
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Atlas Development is a newcomer in the data center landscape with no track record of executing data center projects of any size. Still, Project Springbank is the third large-scale data center project the firm has applied to build in Georgia since the start of the year.
In early January, Atlas submitted plans for Project Sail, a data center campus of historic proportions in Coweta County.
The proposed 13-building, 4.9M SF complex on nearly 800 acres has a projected development cost as high as $17B and is being developed with a still-unidentified partner, Atlas owner Jonathon Ward told Bisnow at the time. Atlas originally planned to develop the site for residential uses but pivoted when more interest came from data center users, Ward said.
Days later, Atlas submitted initial filings for Project Sassy, a data center campus on 178 acres in Rome, Georgia. The company hasn't disclosed additional details about the Rome project, though Atlas has applied to rezone the property to allow data centers and hopes to add 15 more acres to the site.
Atlanta's data center market has been one of the fastest growing in the country. As of mid-2024, it had 1.3 gigawatts of new data center capacity under construction, according to CBRE, a 76% increase that put it on track to become the second-largest market in the U.S.
