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Data centers in Monroe County

We track 3 projects inside Monroe County and 5 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.

In Monroe County

Forsyth Technology Campus Trammell Crow Company
Approved MW not reported Forsyth

CBRE-owned Trammell Crow Company won rezoning from the City of Forsyth (Monroe County, not to be confused with Forsyth County near Atlanta) for a hyperscale data center campus on about 1,600 acres of timberland along Johnsonville, Smith and Collier roads west of I-75. The city council approved the rezoning 5 to 1 in early 2026 over the objections of many residents and its own planning board, citing an estimated 220 million dollars a year in local tax revenue at full 12 million square foot buildout. This project is separate from the nearby Rumble Technology Park.

Rumble Technology Park Cloverleaf Infrastructure
Approved 1120 MW Forsyth

Rumble Technology Park is a data center campus on Rumble Road near the city of Forsyth in Monroe County, originally proposed by Data Core Innovations and now developed by Cloverleaf Infrastructure. Monroe County approved rezoning in November 2024 for the roughly 900 to 1,225 acre site (after a later 300 to 325 acre expansion), planned for up to 12 buildings totaling about 4.2 million square feet and up to 1.12 gigawatts of capacity. Full buildout is not projected to complete until around 2038, with the first building targeted for 2028.

Bolingbroke Technology Center Local landowners (Newnam, Doss, Ingram)
Denied MW not reported Bolingbroke

A rezoning request to convert about 970 acres of residential land near Bolingbroke, along I-475 and Highway 41, into a nine-building data center campus was rejected. The Monroe County Planning and Zoning board voted 5 to 0 against it in late July 2025 and the county commission followed with a unanimous denial on August 5, 2025 after nearly 900 residents turned out in opposition over water, noise, light pollution and the town's rural character. Property owners later sued the county over the denial.

Within 25 miles of Monroe County

Power bills in Monroe County

Most of the county is served by Central Georgia EMC, with parts on Flint Energies or Southern Rivers Energy or Forsyth municipal (city owned) or Georgia Power. The city of Forsyth is the Monroe County seat and has its own municipal utility. 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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