401 Main St, Byron, GA 31008

The Byron City Council voted unanimously to adopt a comprehensive data center ordinance after months of public forums. The adopted rules require data centers to maintain certain noise levels, set buildings back at least 1,000 feet from schools, churches, and hospitals, require closed-loop cooling systems, and require compliance with state and federal environmental standards. An earlier draft reported in August also specified a 500 foot separation from residential property and a cap of 75 decibels over any 30 minutes from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Reporting noted the ordinance does not guarantee a data center will be built and does not by itself stop a company from developing. A Peach County High School student who followed the process argued the noise limit was still too loose.

Sources: Byron city council unanimously adopts data center ordinance after months of review, Byron officials present data center ordinance proposal amidst community pushback

The City of Byron has posted a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting for October 13, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. with items including a Data Center Moratorium Resolution, Draft Ordinance 2026-9 on Data Center Regulations Section 4(a), Draft Ordinance 2026-7 on Data Centers in the I-1 District, and Ordinance 2026-6 on Data Centers in the A-1 District. The meeting location is the Byron Municipal Complex at 401 Main Street, the subject address. The agenda packet itself was not retrieved, so whether the resolution extends, replaces, or sunsets the earlier pause is unknown.

Sources: City of Byron Planning & Zoning

Open records requests filed by citizens uncovered early discussions between county officials and Beltline Energy, a company eyeing the former Boy Scout camp site for a data center projected to draw between 200 and 300 megawatts of power. Documents showed county officials, including the county manager, commission chair, and planning administrator, engaged with Beltline as early as October 2024. Crawford County has maintained that no formal application was ever filed. This is a developer estimate reported in news coverage, not a filed interconnection figure, and the tracked record for this site currently lists no megawatt number and names only Land Holding Company LLC.

Sources: 'Nobody was told': Byron, Crawford County head to arbitration over land tied to potential data center

As of mid-September 2026, Byron and Crawford County were engaged in court proceedings over whether Byron can annex the Boy Scout Road property. Mayor Michael Chidester told 13WMAZ that the state-mandated arbitration on the annexation dispute ended without resolution. The tracked record for the Byron Boy Scout Camp site still describes the dispute as in arbitration and was last updated April 1, 2026, so that status is out of date. No court ruling or hearing date was reported in the sources reviewed, and the same report noted the property sold in 2024.

Sources: Byron city council unanimously adopts data center ordinance after months of review

The disputed tract was reported as roughly 500 acres along Boy Scout Road straddling Crawford and Peach counties. Byron sought to annex the roughly 250-acre Crawford County portion under a covenant signed in 2017 with the Boy Scouts of America, and Crawford County opposed. The dispute escalated to state-mandated arbitration with public money funding legal work on both sides. Reporting tied the land to early discussions with Beltline Energy about a data center project and noted neither government would officially confirm the project. One local real estate blog referred to the property as the 489.39-acre Historic Camp Benjamin Hawkins at 2251 Boy Scout Road and used the name ErgonX Industrial Park, a name that appeared in only one outlet and should be treated as unconfirmed.

Sources: 'Nobody was told': Byron, Crawford County head to arbitration over land tied to potential data center, City of Byron holds town hall to discuss data center ordinance

Byron's city council placed a temporary moratorium on new data centers in January 2026, citing rapid growth and outdated zoning ordinances, with existing permitted projects not affected. As of late June 2026 the moratorium was in effect until July 31, 2026, and the mayor said at that time there was no formally proposed data center in Byron but that the property owner was planning something. Later coverage showed the deadline was pushed from July 31, 2026 to September 15, 2026 while the ordinance was finalized. The moratorium was superseded by adoption of the data center ordinance on September 14, 2026. A further moratorium resolution is on the October 13, 2026 Planning and Zoning agenda.

Sources: Peach, Crawford residents meet to discuss potential data center ordinance with Byron council, City of Byron holds town hall to discuss data center ordinance

Residents of Peach and Crawford counties spoke at a packed Byron council meeting on August 10, 2026 about a potential data center off Boy Scout Road, and an updated ordinance presentation on August 24, 2026 drew Georgia Power officials, data center stakeholders, and residents opposed. A public input town hall was held at the Byron Auditorium on June 24, 2026. A Change.org petition titled 'Protect the old Boy Scout camp from being replaced by a data center' lists Byron and Crawford County meeting schedules and directs residents to attend. The petition is evidence of opposition activity only, not of any project fact. Mayor Michael Chidester has described the prospect in favorable terms as low impact, low sound, and high quality business.

Sources: Peach, Crawford residents meet to discuss potential data center ordinance with Byron council, Byron officials present data center ordinance proposal amidst community pushback, Petition: Protect the old Boy Scout camp from being replaced by a data center

The Crawford County Planning and Zoning Commission held a long series of posted work sessions specifically on a Data Center Ordinance at the Crawford County Annex in Roberta, including February 3 and 10, March 10 and 24, May 6 and 13, July 21, and July 30, 2026, with a September 14, 2026 session carrying the agenda item 'Data Center Ordinance Draft Review.' All of these meetings have already happened. Minutes, a recommendation, and any adoption vote were not retrieved, so the outcome of the Crawford County process is not known from these sources. The Crawford County Planning and Zoning Office can be reached at 478-836-3199.

Sources: NOTICE: Planning & Zoning Commission Work Session 9/14/2026, NOTICE: P&Z Commission Work Sessions 2/3/2026 & 2/10/2026, NOTICE: Planning & Zoning Commission Work Session 7/21/2026, NOTICE: Planning & Zoning Commission Work Session 7/30/2026

The Peach County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 on June 9, 2026 to rezone a 190-acre property off Highway 96 from R-AG Agricultural Residential District for a planned warehouse and distribution center. Vice-Chairwoman Betty Hill voted in opposition. Several nearby residents spoke against the rezoning at the public hearing, citing traffic congestion and noise pollution. This is described as a warehouse and distribution center, not a data center, and the applicant entity, parcel numbers, and conditions of approval were not retrieved.

Sources: Peach Commissioners approve rezoning for proposed distribution center

A 1,500-acre publicly owned industrial megasite off Highway 96 in Peach County is the subject of a joint development authority uniting Peach, Bibb, and Houston counties to guide recruitment, infrastructure planning, and investment. The site is owned by the county and the state and was purchased in 2022 with a $20 million OneGeorgia Regional Economic Business Assistance grant. By late July 2026 marketing and the future sale had advanced, with all three counties pledging $250,000 toward a first-year spending plan and Macon-Bibb and Houston each agreeing to repay Peach County $413,000 for prior work. The site was selected for its size and its location near rail lines and Interstate 75. No retrieved source ties the megasite to a data center user; this is site readiness, not a data center proposal.

Sources: Central Georgia counties propose joint development authority for mega site project, Bibb joins Peach, Houston to buy Hwy. 96 megasite

The Warner Robins City Council unanimously approved a temporary six-month moratorium on data centers at its July 20, 2026 meeting. Per council documents, it pauses acceptance, processing, or issuing of new applications for zoning, building permits, business licenses, or conditional use permits related to constructing, establishing, or expanding a data center. The move followed resident concerns about AI and resource use. A six-month pause adopted July 20, 2026 would run to roughly January 20, 2027, but the resolution text was not retrieved so the exact expiry should be verified. The same report noted Perry introduced legislation in late 2024 that would allow data centers only by special exception, and that Houston County leaders previously said they have no active plans for a data center.

Sources: Warner Robins Council approves data center moratorium for six months

Flint Energies, the cooperative serving this address, announced on February 3, 2026 that several rate changes would take effect April 1, 2026 following an in-depth cost of service study. The residential energy rate rose from 10.55 to 11.05 cents per kilowatt-hour, the cooperative's first residential energy rate increase in almost a decade, and the monthly base charge also increased. The Board lowered the Wholesale Power Cost Adjustment for 2026 to help offset the change, so most members saw a net bill decrease. EMC rates are set by the cooperative's board, not the Public Service Commission.

Sources: Flint Energies announces new rate changes starting April 1, Flint Energies Announces April 1 Rate Changes

On December 19, 2025 the Georgia Public Service Commission voted to approve an agreement between the Commission's Public Interest Advocacy Staff and Georgia Power certifying the construction of 9,985 MW of new energy generation, approximately 80 percent of which is intended to serve large load and data center growth statewide. Georgia Power was also approved to amend existing rules to set minimum billing requirements and longer contract terms for customers with expected peak demands of 100 MW or greater, with conditions on transmission cost responsibility, under Docket No. 44280. This is a completed regulatory action, not a pending hearing. It applies to Georgia Power territory, which covers the already-tracked Pine Ridge and Rumble sites, not to this address's Flint Energies service.

Sources: Large Load Projects and Tariffs (September 2026)

A new Flint Energies substation in Houston County near Kathleen is up and running, built to deliver power faster and more reliably. Flint Energies vice president Marian McLemore said growth is the main reason for the development, citing a jump of over 20 percent in the customer base since 2016, and a companion station in north Houston County was noted as in progress. Coverage attributes the substation to general residential and commercial growth, not to any named industrial or data center customer, so it should not be characterized as data center driven.

Sources: New Flint Energies substation built to keep up with Houston County growth, Flint Energies builds new substation in Houston County as growth continues

A trade publication reported that Beltline Energy, the company tied to early discussions about the Boy Scout Road site, withdrew a similarly sized data center proposal in Pacific, Missouri in August 2026. That proposal called for rezoning of a 500-acre property. This is out of state and does not describe any change to the Byron site, but it is background on the same prospective tenant's track record.

Sources: Beltline Energy withdraws data center proposal in Pacific, Missouri