The compute is coming. The only question is where.
Hyperscalers are spending more on buildings, chips and power in one year than Georgia's entire state budget. Every one of those dollars lands somewhere. The counties that say yes early get the tax digest, the fiber, the trades work and the technical workforce. The counties that say no get the transmission line anyway — and none of the money.
In FY2025 alone, the Georgia Department of Economic Development supported 423 new locations and expansions, representing more than $26.3 billion in investment and 23,200 future private-sector jobs. Data centers and their supply chain are now the single largest slice of that pipeline.
The load is real: Georgia Power told regulators it expects roughly 8,500 megawatts of growth over six years — a number that was 400 MW as recently as 2022. The Public Service Commission has approved 9,885 MW of new generation to serve it. That generation is being built either way. The question is whether your county captures the property tax, the payroll and the pipeline — or merely hosts the wires.
We are for building. We are also for building well: closed-loop cooling, disclosed water, local hiring, and a community benefit agreement signed before the first bulldozer. That is not opposition. That is how you make a 30-year asset behave like one.
Ten reasons to want one in your community.
Not the brochure version. Each of these is a number you can take to a commission meeting, plus the term you should negotiate to actually get it. Tap any reason to open it.
The playbook: frontier models, spent locally.
A data center is a building. The reason to want one is what it lets your county do with frontier AI — and the leverage you hold while the deal is still being negotiated. Ask for these seats, licenses and programs in the incentive agreement, not after the ribbon cutting.
Every item below is being run somewhere in Georgia already, at county scale, on commodity models. None of it requires a research lab. It requires a line item and a sponsor.
Seven terms. Signed before the dirt moves.
This is the model community benefit agreement we think every Georgia county should put on the table. It is not a wish list — each term is standard practice somewhere, and negotiable everywhere.
The record. Updated daily.
Every positive data center and AI story we can verify in Georgia and the Southeast — investments, hires, grid builds, water wins, community programs. No press releases dressed as news; each item links to the original.
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The hard questions, answered straight.
If a campaign only tells you the upside, don't trust it. These are the four objections that actually matter, and what a good deal looks like on each.