Northern Data already operates one building at this Maysville industrial site and won conditional use approval in early 2025 to add two more buildings of about 125,000 square feet each, part of a plan to grow the campus from about 7.5 megawatts toward roughly 200 megawatts with a Georgia Power 129 megawatt substation on site. Reported total investment is about 2 billion dollars over five to six years, with the next building targeted to open in 2027. Note: local reporting on the vote was filed under Banks County coverage while at least one data center tracking site lists the project's address as being in Jackson County. Maysville straddles the Banks-Jackson county line, so the exact county of the physical buildings could not be fully confirmed.
Data centers in Jackson County
We track 1 project inside Jackson County and 0 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.
In Jackson County
Power bills in Jackson County
Most of the county is served by Jackson EMC, with parts on Georgia Power or Commerce municipal (city owned). 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 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. 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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