Canoochee River RV Resort LLC filed a Development of Regional Impact application with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for a data center project at 2700 Airport Road in Metter, Candler County, on about 470 acres next to the Metter-Candler Airport and south of Interstate 16. Plans call for five data center buildings of up to 250,000 square feet each (about 1.25 million square feet total) plus two on-site substations, using closed loop cooling to reduce water use, with the developer also seeking a county rezoning from agricultural to planned unit development and targeting phased completion through 2033. Candler County commissioners voted unanimously against introducing a data center moratorium in October 2026, and no public hearing date for the rezoning had been reported as of this writing.
Data centers in Candler County
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Power bills in Candler County
Most of the county is served by Excelsior EMC, with parts on Canoochee EMC or Georgia Power. As a cooperative, its wholesale power comes mostly from Oglethorpe Power.
Oglethorpe Power, which generates most of the electricity Georgia's EMCs sell, is adding natural gas plants it ties to data center and industrial load. EMC rates are set by each cooperative's board, not the Public Service Commission, so watch your EMC's rate notices.
Oglethorpe Power is the wholesale generation and transmission cooperative owned by Georgia's 38 electric membership cooperatives, and it is not directly rate regulated by the Georgia Public Service Commission the way Georgia Power is, so there is no PSC docket number for its generation projects. Oglethorpe Power broke ground on May 7, 2026 on a two unit, roughly 1,425 megawatt, 3.3 billion dollar combined cycle gas plant (Smarr Combined-Cycle facility) next to its existing Smarr Energy Facility in Monroe County, targeting commercial operation around 2029 to serve 29 of its 38 member cooperatives, plus a smaller gas addition planned at the Talbot Energy Facility for 2028. On October 14, 2026, the USDA announced a 3.3 billion dollar Rural Utilities Service loan to help finance the Smarr plant, calling it the largest loan in that program's history. No specific verified dollar impact on individual electric membership cooperative household bills has been published yet, since those retail rates are set separately by each member cooperative.
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