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Recent Georgia data center news

• Dec 19, 2025

  Georgia Regulators Approve Huge Electric Generation Increase for Data Centers

  Georgia Power Co. announced a plan to increase generating capacity by 50% after the Georgia Public Service Commission voted 5-0 that the expansion is needed to meet projected data center demand.

  • Main announcement and terms: Georgia Power seeks roughly 10,000 megawatts of new capacity (80% expected to serve data centers) with an estimated construction cost of $16.3 billion and staff projecting customers will pay $50 billion to $60 billion over coming decades (including interest and guaranteed profit). The company agreed that after the current rate freeze ends in 2028 it will use revenue from new customers to place “downward pressure” on rates through 2031, amounting to at least $8.50/month ($102/year) in relief for a typical residential customer starting in 2029; current typical residential bills exceed $175/month.
  • Background and conditions: Commissioners voted despite staff earlier calling parts of the forecast speculative; two Democrats who opposed the vote (Peter Hubbard, Alicia Johnson) will take office Jan. 1. Opponents raised enforcement and climate concerns over new natural-gas-fired generation and warned customers could be left on the hook if projected demand fails to materialize. Commission staff said if demand is lower than projected Georgia Power must drop wholesale purchase agreements, close least-efficient plants, and seek additional customers.
• Dec 18, 2025

  T5 Services Scales Rapidly as Third-Party Demand for Integrated Data Center Delivery Accelerates

  T5 Services, a T5 Data Centers company, has announced record 2025 growth and expanded operational scale driven by third-party demand for integrated data center delivery across hyperscale, cloud, and AI markets.

  • Revenue grew from $87 million (2021) to $1.6 billion (2025), supported by more than 200 T5 professionals and ~6,000 subcontract and trade personnel, delivering 750 MW of data center capacity and 2 million sq ft of mission-critical space, plus over 1,000 training hours annually to reinforce safety and operational excellence.
  • T5 Operations expanded its third-party management platform from ~50 to 77 data centers across the U.S. and Europe, now supporting over 4 GW of capacity at 75+ customer-owned sites, enabling upgrades, expansions, and retrofits in fully energized environments without interrupting customer operations as AI and higher power densities intensify infrastructure requirements.
• Dec 18, 2025

  Calls for US Data Center Freeze Grow as Local Enthusiasm Melts

  Senator Bernie Sanders has called for a national moratorium on new data center construction, urging Congress to slow AI expansion and involve more people in decisions about AI’s future.

  • Main action and scope:Sen. Bernie Sanders publicly advocated a national moratorium on data center construction; more than 200 environmental organizations (via a letter) also called for a moratorium citing impacts on water resources, electricity consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions; Data Center Watch reports $64 billion in data center plans have been blocked or delayed by local activism in the last two years.
  • Background and additional details: Federal debate is split—Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Richard Blumenthal are investigating links between data center power usage and rising consumer bills and have sent letters to major hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, CoreWeave, Digital Realty, Equinix); the Trump administration and U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright have pushed for accelerated permitting and less state regulation; a Carnegie Mellon University study projects data center and crypto growth could raise average U.S. electricity costs ~8% by 2030 (with regional spikes, e.g., >25% in Virginia).
• Dec 18, 2025

  Plug Power 2025: A Year of Momentum, Milestones, and Meaningful Progress

  Plug has published a year-end 2025 blog highlighting major operational milestones across its hydrogen electrolyzer, fuel cell, and production network businesses.

  • Electrolyzers & fuel cells: Plug shipped >185 MW of GenEco electrolyzers in 2025 (total >317 MW across 70+ units, operating on every continent except Antarctica) and deployed >3,100 GenDrive fuel cell units, growing the installed base to >72,000 units and completing >20 million hydrogen fuelings in 2025 and >1 billion fuelings cumulatively.
  • Hydrogen production & logistics: Its U.S. plants in Georgia, Tennessee, and Louisiana produced >4,600 metric tons of hydrogen in 2025 (Woodbine, GA >2,500 t, Charleston, TN 1,541 t, St. Gabriel, LA 561 t), with network capacity >40 tons/day, high uptimes (up to 99.7% availability) and an expanded logistics fleet of 34 liquid and 89 gas trailers, while new customer deals include 55 MW with Carlton Power (UK) and **8 GW with Allied Green Ammonia (Australia, Uzbekistan, UAE).
• Dec 16, 2025

  12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 9 – The Economic Development Edge

  The Regulatory Oversight Podcast releases an episode titled “12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 9 – The Economic Development Edge” featuring David Dove and Kirk Dillard discussing U.S. economic development trends for 2025–2026.

  • Episode focus: Shifting federal regulations and tariffs shaping onshoring and investment decisions across Midwest manufacturing, agribusiness, clean energy, and emerging sectors such as quantum computing, microelectronics, AI, with emphasis on incentives, grants, and workforce programs and the concept of “positive lawyering” for growth projects.
  • Infrastructure and siting details: Speakers highlight local partnerships and chambers, address rural siting issues (e.g., truck counts, road redesigns), and stress infrastructure needs for data centers, including utilities, water availability, and grid capacity, drawing on their roles with the Regional Transportation Authority, Illinois Economic Development Corporation, and University System of Georgia Board of Regents.
• Dec 16, 2025

  Global Hyperscale Growth Persists Despite Grid and Land Constraints

  DC Byte analysis finds hyperscale data center growth shifting from broad geographic expansion toward constraints driven by grid capacity, land availability, and regulatory complexity.

  • Main announcement/action: DC Byte, using a dataset of more than 8,000 facilities, concludes that power availability has become the dominant constraint in core hubs (Northern Virginia, Frankfurt, Singapore) and should be treated as the primary planning variable over the next 3–5 years; hyperscalers are securing land and power 24–36 months ahead of planned commissioning and monitoring substation filings, PPA announcements, land banking, and environmental approvals as leading indicators.
  • Background and details: The report cites vacancy rates below 1% in several mature regions and references a November 2025 Black & Veatch finding that AI-driven power demand now reshapes utilities’ priorities; it documents regional shifts toward Southeast US (Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama), Southern/Central Europe (Italy, Spain, Poland), and diversified APAC markets (Johor, Jakarta, Bangkok, major Indian metros) and notes a 33% five-year CAGR in Asia‑Pacific hyperscale capacity.
• Dec 11, 2025

  What to Do With Remaining BEAD Funds, a.k.a 'Non-Deployment'?

  The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued the BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice prioritizing lowest-cost bids, voiding previously approved state plans, and rescinding authorization for non-deployment activities.

  • Main action and effects: NTIA’s June 6 BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice requires states to resubmit plans within 90 days, eliminates scoring criteria for labor practices, climate resilience, and affordability, and replaces multi-criteria evaluation with a single metric—total BEAD cost per location; NTIA now estimates roughly $21 billion in BEAD “savings” across 56 states and territories.
  • Background and specifics: States had planned to use non-deployment funds for workforce development, digital literacy, telehealth, device subsidies, and community anchor institution connections (examples: Louisiana $510 million, Florida ~$200 million); litigation risk and Congressional pushback (bipartisan letters, proposed RECAPTURE Act) are active, and NTIA has promised guidance in early 2026. The draft White House executive order would link eligibility for remaining funds to state AI regulatory frameworks, adding a legal and political dimension.
• Dec 11, 2025

  United States Cloud Computing Provider Using Nvidia AI Chips $44 Billion CoreWeave Issues $2.25 Billion Convertible Bonds (1.75% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2031) at $215.60 Per Share Representing +150% Premium to Last Reported Sale Price (8/12/25: $86.24)

  CoreWeave announced issuance of $2.25 billion convertible senior notes due 2031 and earlier announced a $9 billion all-share acquisition of Core Scientific.

  • Main announcement: CoreWeave will issue $2.25 billion of convertible bonds (1.75% convertible senior notes due 2031) convertible at $215.60 per share, stated to represent a +150% premium to the last reported sale price (8/12/25: $86.24). The issuance date reported 11th December and the note maturity is 2031.
  • Background and related actions: In 10 July 2025 filings/announcements CoreWeave agreed to buy Core Scientific for $9 billion in an all-share transaction (reported +66% premium to unaffected close 25/6/25: $12.30). Other verifiable details: CoreWeave IPO on Nasdaq in April 2025, raised $1.5 billion in the IPO; previous financing and investor activity includes reported talks at $16 billion valuation (Mar 2024), reported Cisco investment at $23 billion valuation (Oct 2024), reported Blackstone $7.6 billion loan default issues (2024–2025), and planned/reported IPO raises of $2.5–4 billion in 2025 in press reports.
• Dec 10, 2025

  Top Environmental Victories of 2025

  The Sierra Club announces a roundup of its top environmental victories in 2025.

  • Major announced actions: The article catalogs specific legal, legislative, and advocacy wins including: stopping a proposed public-lands sell-off after Congressional withdrawal; passage of the Climate Change Superfund Act in New York (following Vermont in 2024) and introduced bills in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Maine; legal victories blocking Commonwealth LNG (coastal use permit terminated) and two lawsuits creating guardrails on data centers in Kansas and Michigan; NEVI program restart unlocking $2.7 billion for EV charging; and a $744 million jury verdict against Chevron for coastal damages in Louisiana.
  • Background and additional details: The piece lists species and land protections (Northern Rockies wolves, Colorado bison, Rice’s whales), closure of Merrimack Station (final New England coal plant) and repeal of an Ohio coal-bailout that would have cost nearly half a billion dollars, passage of Utah’s balcony solar law allowing small plug-in systems without utility approval, a coalition delivering ~500,000 public comments to defend the Roadless Rule (including 40,000 from Sierra Club advocates), and a world-record origami action sending more than 86,000 paper fish to oppose Enbridge’s Line 5.
• Dec 9, 2025

  Microsoft’s commitment to supporting cloud infrastructure demand in the United States

  Microsoft has announced major expansions of its Azure cloud and AI datacenter infrastructure across the United States, including a new East US 3 region in Atlanta and new Availability Zones in multiple existing regions.

  • Infrastructure expansion: Microsoft will launch the East US 3 Azure region in the Greater Atlanta Metro area in early 2027, designed for advanced Azure and AI workloads, with Availability Zones for resiliency and facilities targeting LEED Gold certification and alignment with Microsoft’s carbon, water, waste, and sustainability commitments; additional AZs will be added in North Central US (by end of 2026), West Central US (early 2027), US Gov Arizona (early 2026), and expanded in East US 2 (Virginia) and South Central US (Texas) in 2026.
  • Government and customer focus: Microsoft will add three Availability Zones to the US Government Arizona region in early 2026 to support zone-redundant, compliant architectures for government and Defense Industrial Base customers, complementing the Azure for US Government Secret region launched earlier in the year; customer examples include the University of Miami using Azure AZs for disaster recovery in a hurricane-prone region and the State of Alaska consolidating infrastructure and improving resiliency by migrating to Azure.