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Data centers in Carroll County

We track 4 projects inside Carroll County and 13 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.

In Carroll County

Embry Development Villa Rica site Embry Development Company
Filed MW not reported Villa Rica

Embry Development Company sought annexation into Villa Rica and rezoning of land between Hickory Level Road and South Van Wert Road in Carroll County for a reported 400 acre data center. More than 30 adjacent property owners filed a court petition (Carroll County Superior Court case SUCV2025000127) challenging the annexation and rezoning, arguing it would directly harm their land and quality of life. This is a separate project from Atlas Development's nearby proposals.

Hickman Property Data Center Campus East Village Dothan, LLC
Filed MW not reported Villa Rica

East Village Dothan LLC filed plans in March 2026 for a roughly 700 acre data center campus known as the Hickman Property, partly within Villa Rica city limits in Carroll County, proposing 11 data center buildings totaling about 6.2 million square feet plus four smaller warehouses totaling about 66,000 square feet.

Project Avemore Atlas Development LLC
Filed MW not reported Villa Rica

Atlas Development filed for a data center campus called Project Avemore on 428 acres along Highway 61 in Villa Rica, Carroll County. Plans call for up to seven single story buildings of about 350,000 square feet each, totaling roughly 2.45 million square feet, with an estimated investment of 5 to 7 billion dollars and a first phase targeted for 2028.

Project Bus Atlas Development LLC
Withdrawn MW not reported Temple

Atlas Development, LLC filed initial paperwork in January 2026 for a 350 acre, up to 12 building data center called Project Bus on rural land near Temple in northern Carroll County, valued at up to 11 billion dollars at full buildout. Following community opposition and a Carroll County Board of Commissioners statement against annexing the county land into Temple, the developer withdrew the proposal on August 4, 2026, though it retains the option to resubmit with changes or pursue another site in the region.

Within 25 miles of Carroll County

Project Sail Prologis
20 mi SApproved 900 MW Coweta County, GA
Project Oak Operator not disclosed
24 mi SEFiledCoweta County, GA
Project Peach North Coweta Investors
25 mi SEApproved 700 MW Coweta County, GA

Power bills in Carroll County

Most of the county is served by Carroll EMC, with parts on Georgia Power or GreyStone 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 has announced plans to build new natural gas generation to meet rising load from its EMC members, including a large combined cycle gas plant near its existing Smarr Energy Facility in Monroe County targeted for around 2029, plus a smaller gas addition at the Talbot Energy Facility targeted for 2028. Reported cost estimates for the Monroe County plant vary across sources, from around 2 billion dollars to as much as 3.3 billion dollars, so the exact figure is unclear. 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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