Meta, operating through the entity Morning Hornet LLC, is expanding its Stanton Springs data center campus onto the Newton County portion of the industrial park under a development agreement approved by the Newton County Board of Commissioners. Four families near the campus, including Beverly and Jeff Morris of Mansfield, sued Meta on September 1, 2026, alleging construction blasting and excavation contaminated their well water with silt and sediment and caused dust and light pollution; Meta says a well study it commissioned found it unlikely the data center affected local groundwater. Exact current square footage for this Newton County phase could not be confirmed from public reporting available for this entry.
Data centers in Newton County
We track 3 projects inside Newton County and 6 more within 25 miles of it. For a distance-specific answer, check your own address.
In Newton County
Gregory Road Data Center Campus JBW Investments LLC / JF Land Investments LLC
Developers John B. Williams and Universal Planning and Development, through JBW Investments LLC and JF Land Investments LLC, filed plans on March 27, 2025 for a data center campus on Gregory Road in unincorporated Newton County, just south of Lake Varner between Alcovy Road and Flat Rock Road. Of a roughly 520 acre tract, about 213 acres would hold 1.4 million square feet of data center buildings built in three phases through 2036, with the remaining acreage set aside for 27 residential lots. The developers are seeking annexation into the City of Covington and rezoning, with an estimated buildout value of 5.7 billion dollars and projected annual tax revenue of 19 million dollars.
Newton County Technology Park (Social Circle Technology Park) TPA Group / SC Infrastructure LLC
Atlanta based TPA Group and SC Infrastructure LLC are proposing a nine building, roughly 2.6 million square foot data center campus (reported as 317 to 338 acres depending on the source) northeast of the Interstate 20 and State Route 11 interchange near Social Circle. The land is caught in a jurisdiction dispute: Newton County says the parcels were never properly annexed into the City of Social Circle and threatened legal action to block the city from approving the rezoning, while Social Circle's planning commission has recommended rezoning from agricultural to light industrial. A special use permit hearing was tabled to May 26, 2025, and no final resolution had been confirmed as of the most recent reporting found.
Within 25 miles of Newton County
Sailfish Investors Data Center Campus Sailfish Investors
Rockdale Technology Part 1 SDP Acquisitions
Grind Capital Irwin Bridge Road site Grind Capital Group
Monticello area data center site Southern Edge Realty
Power bills in Newton County
Most of the county is served by Snapping Shoals EMC, with parts on Georgia Power or Walton EMC or Central Georgia EMC or Covington municipal (city owned) or Oxford municipal (city owned) or Mansfield municipal (city owned). Covington, Oxford and Mansfield run their own municipal electric departments for those cities. 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.
Every Georgia rate case in dollars a month, with hearing dates: willmybillgoup.com, our rate case tracker.
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