A two-story data center with an on-site substation floated for 2235 Bouldercrest Road in DeKalb County, on land involved in a 2021 property swap between DeKalb County and Blackhall Studios. Developer Ryan Millsap, through Blackhall Real Estate Phase II LLC and Hickory Real Estate Partners, proposed a draft agreement to a county commissioner in August 2025, but no formal rezoning application or size and power details have been publicly confirmed.
The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on August 13, 2026 to reject PCC-DeKalb LLC's roughly 1.6 billion dollar, 2 million square foot data center proposal on 95 acres in Ellenwood. The vote followed nearly a year of deferrals on an application that predated the county's data center moratorium, and drew support from residents in the majority Black Ellenwood community who had raised air quality and health concerns.
Shadowbox Studios, the renamed Blackhall Studios, and affiliate Henrico 183 want to build a data center on about 155 acres at 3600 International Park Drive in south DeKalb County, a separate site from the Bouldercrest Road property also tied to Blackhall's founder. DeKalb planning staff denied the application in June 2026 citing the county's data center moratorium, and the DeKalb County Zoning Board of Appeals affirmed that denial on September 9, 2026. Shadowbox's separate lawsuit against DeKalb County challenging the moratorium itself remains pending in superior court.
Most of the county is served by Georgia Power, with parts on Snapping Shoals EMC or Walton EMC.
Base rate freeze through 2028 (docket 44280) holds base rates flat from July 2025. Fuel and storm riders are separate and can still move. Real-time pricing revenue credit and cost allocation review (docket 57171) is pending before the commission without a published residential figure yet. 2026 fuel and storm cost settlement (docket 44280, 56765) takes about $4.04 a month off a typical bill from June 2026.
Georgia Power and the Georgia PSC Public Interest Advocacy Staff reached a stipulated agreement extending the alternate rate plan first approved in the 2022 rate case, keeping Georgia Power base electricity rates flat through at least 2028. The Georgia Public Service Commission approved the stipulation by vote on July 1, 2025, with a formal order issued July 31, 2025. The freeze applies only to base rates and does not limit separate fuel cost recovery or storm cost recovery charges, both of which can still change a residential bill during the freeze period. Georgia Power has said growth in large load customers such as data centers helped make the freeze possible by spreading fixed costs across a larger customer base.
Every Georgia rate case in dollars a month, with hearing dates: willmybillgoup.com, our rate case tracker.
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