Georgia
Data centers in Lamar County
We track 1 project inside Lamar County and 8 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.
In Lamar County
Rumored
MW not reported
Barnesville
Amazon Data Services purchased about 985 acres off High Falls Park Road near I-75 Exit 198 in Lamar County for about 270 million dollars in July 2025, the largest real estate transaction in county history. The land was already zoned for warehousing and distribution as part of the Legacy 75 Trade Center, and Amazon has said only that it is evaluating the site and performing due diligence for a possible data center, with no formal data center application filed as of the most recent reporting found. Lamar County has since passed a data center moratorium affecting future development there.
Within 25 miles of Lamar County
13 mi EApprovedMonroe County, GA
15 mi NApprovedSpalding County, GA
17 mi EApproved 1120 MW Monroe County, GA
20 mi NEFiled 69 MW Butts County, GA
20 mi NEFiledButts County, GA
22 mi NFiledHenry County, GA
24 mi NFiledHenry County, GA
24 mi NApprovedHenry County, GA
Power bills in Lamar County
Most of the county is served by Central Georgia EMC, with parts on Barnesville municipal (city owned) or Southern Rivers Energy or Georgia Power. Barnesville has its own municipal electric utility for the city itself. 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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