Organizers, including both the local Republican and Democratic party chairs, said sources bound by nondisclosure agreements linked Meta to land near Mine Lake outside Monticello in Jasper County as a possible hyperscale data center site; Meta has not been confirmed on any public filing. The City of Monticello sought to annex three parcels there, a step organizers said was tied to the project, but the city council postponed the annexation vote in July 2026 after resident opposition over water and transparency, and Jasper County commissioners separately voted to block the annexation. No formal data center application is on the public record as of this research.
Most of the county is served by Central Georgia EMC, with parts on Snapping Shoals EMC or Tri-County EMC or Monticello municipal (city owned) or Georgia Power. Territory here genuinely overlaps between Central Georgia EMC and Snapping Shoals EMC, primary designation is approximate. 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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