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Latest data center news, projects, power and policy across Georgia — updated daily.
Recent Georgia data center news
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How Data Center Controversies Have Transformed the Midterm Elections
The Associated Press has published an analysis of the growing political opposition to U.S. data centers and how it is reshaping policy debates. It is commentary and reporting on a broader trend, not a first-time corporate announcement.
- The article says Oracle, Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft expect to spend more than $700 billion on U.S. data centers this year, while OpenAI and Oracle are building Project Jupiter, a $165 billion complex near the Mexican border in New Mexico.
- It also notes opposition over water use, electricity costs, and climate impacts; examples include a challenge to well drilling permits in New Mexico, a one-year ban on large data centers in New York, and tougher regulatory steps in Texas under Greg Abbott.
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Building the Critical Infrastructure Behind the Internet
DataBank has highlighted its Lithia Springs campus in Atlanta and its partnership with Brasfield & Gorrie in a video about building data center infrastructure.
- The video showcases engineering, construction, and collaboration behind DataBank’s Lithia Springs campus in Atlanta.
- It specifically mentions chilled-water cooling systems and says the partnership between DataBank and Brasfield & Gorrie has been built over years of successful projects.
- This appears to be a promotional video/commentary, not a formal first-time project announcement, and it includes a 3-minute runtime with a link to DataBank’s YouTube channel.
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LG Energy Solution begins LFP and NMC BESS and EV cell production at Michigan factory
LG Energy Solution has announced the start of production at its battery cell factory in Lansing, Michigan, while DeltaX has announced plans to establish its North American headquarters in Walton County, Georgia.
- LG Energy Solution Michigan-Lansing has begun production of LFP and NMC battery cells, with a target of more than 35GWh annual capacity at full scale; the plant will supply BESS and EV applications, and Toyota cells will support the 2027 Toyota Highlander EV.
- LG ES said it has invested over US$2 billion in the Lansing facility, which employs about 900 people and is expected to grow to 1,700 at full capacity; the article also references a prior US$4.3 billion Tesla supply agreement and a US$1.4 billion investment at the Holland, Michigan plant.
- DeltaX announced on 14 August a US$141 million investment to build a North American headquarters and manufacturing campus in Monroe, Georgia, including a 100,000-square-foot BESS assembly facility on about 25 acres.
- DeltaX said the Georgia project is expected to create approximately 250 jobs and will support BESS, BMS, and AI-powered energy management technologies for utility-scale projects, renewable energy integration, data centres, and C&I applications.
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$1B Capital Commitment Launches Phoenix-Based Data Center Firm
Saragon has announced its official launch as a new U.S. data center company focused on colocation, high-density computing, and AI inference infrastructure.
- The company launches with ten data centers across nine U.S. markets, approximately 53 MW of installed power, and 259,000 square feet of colocation space, backed by up to $1 billion in committed capital from I Squared Capital.
- Saragon was established after I Squared’s acquisition of ten data center facilities from Cogent Fiber, LLC; the portfolio spans Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Baltimore, Houston, Nashville, and Stockton. The company says it will expand through targeted investment, customer-led expansion, and additional acquisitions, with Steve Orlando as CEO and Kevin Dalton as President.
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Dallas-Fort Worth Dethrones Virginia as the World’s Top Data Center Market
Dallas-Fort Worth has been ranked as the world’s No. 1 data center market in a new report, while JLL separately ranked Texas as the top data center market in North America.
- Cushman & Wakefield ranked DFW first among 107 global data center markets based on 24 metrics, including under-construction capacity, land availability, power availability, and market size.
- JLL said Texas overtook Virginia on existing and under-construction inventory; DFW’s first-half 2026 figures included 4,587 MW existing inventory, 2,297 MW lease absorption, 3,202 MW under construction, and less than 1% vacancy. DFW and Austin tied for the second-lowest construction cost per MW among 19 U.S. markets at $9.4 million to $12.1 million.
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DataBank’s Sustainability Commitment in Action
DataBank has highlighted a local tree planting effort as part of its sustainability and community impact messaging.
- The video shows team members planting trees, preparing the site, and coordinating field activities to support landscape restoration and environmental sustainability.
- The post frames the initiative as a hands-on volunteer and local partnership effort, and links to DataBank’s corporate responsibility page for more information about its sustainability initiatives.
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One Team, Two Rounds of Giving: Backpacks for Local Students
DataBank has announced that its employees, vendors, and customers completed a backpack drive for Bluffdale Elementary students and teachers, delivering 60 backpacks stocked with school supplies. - Over $1,250 was donated to purchase backpacks and supplies, and 27 employees helped pack them at the Salt Lake City data center.
- The backpacks included items such as a water bottle, notebook, ruler, crayons, pencil pouch, pencils, eraser, pencil sharpener, glue stick, and kid scissors; extra school supplies were also set aside for teachers.
- The article is a community relations / CSR recap, not a first-time product or infrastructure announcement, and it also references several past DataBank community activities at other data centers.
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Salute Military Story: Christina Duarte
Salute has published an interview with Christina Duarte, a military spouse and Talent Acquisition Recruiter at the company, about her path into the data center industry.
- Duarte says she was contacted through the MSEP portal and later joined Salute, where she found an industry she knew little about and a role that could move with her military family.
- She discusses living in Germany before moving to the United States in 2019, and being stationed with her husband at Robins AFB (Georgia), Travis AFB (California), and MacDill AFB (Florida); the piece is an interview/commentary, not a new business announcement.
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Bloomberg NEF: Texas grid pause puts 20 percent of US data center pipeline at risk
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has directed a comprehensive audit of all data center projects advancing through ERCOT’s interconnection process, following a pause on new data center grid interconnections. - The audit instructs the PUCT and ERCOT to assess whether data centers pay their own way, provide their own power or rely on the grid, bring their own water or reuse water, mitigate impacts on neighbors, and disclose ownership and controlling interests. - Bloomberg NEF says the pause could affect about 49.8 GW of projects, with potential financial impact of upwards of $8 billion by Q1 2027; ERCOT has more than 470 GW of interconnection requests, about 90% tied to data center load, and expects 8.25 GW of new data center capacity online by 2030. This article is commentary/analysis referencing Abbott’s earlier-month directive and related policy developments, not a first-time primary announcement from the named entities.
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Nvidia’s half-trillion-dollar AI investment fund could impact enterprise chip pricing, availability
Nvidia and six financial partners have announced memorandums of understanding to create AI compute financing platforms mobilizing more than $500 billion of third-party capital.
- The partners are Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR; the platforms aim to support AI infrastructure across Nvidia’s ecosystem, including frontier AI labs, enterprises, and AI clouds.
- The statement says the initiative is intended to create dedicated pools of capital at attractive rates for Nvidia customers, but Brookfield said the figure was totaled up by Nvidia and the partnerships are individual arrangements, not a single pooled fund.
- Analysts quoted in the article said the move could increase AI infrastructure costs and worsen chip shortages in the near term, though some suggested it could eventually add capacity; several expect benefits to arrive later, around 2028 rather than the next 12-18 months.