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DataCentersExposed
County data-center profile

Fulton County, Georgia

DataCentersExposed tracks 29 AI data centers in Fulton County, Georgia — 11 operating and 9 in the pipeline, drawing 969 MW of reported power demand, led by Microsoft Corporation. Its transparent data-center risk score is 0/100.

Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard

Facilities
29
Operating
11
Pipeline
9

Reporting by · Updated May 29, 2026

Risk breakdown
16Low
  • Project exposure · 28
  • Power demand · 0
  • Water draw · n/a
  • Land footprint · n/a
Overview

What's happening in Fulton County

Facilities here with disclosed capacity draw 969 MW from the local grid. Data-center load on this scale is the single biggest driver of recent capacity-market price increases — costs that flow through to every ratepayer in the service territory, not just the operators.

Microsoft Corporation has the largest presence in Fulton County. We resolve project codenames and shell LLCs back to the corporate parent wherever the public record allows, so the table below names who is actually behind each site.

Below: every tracked facility in the county, the active state legislation that names it or its county, and local news. Commissioner vote records arrive in a later release; the placeholders show where that accountability data will land.

Modeled scenario · not announced

2035 Buildout Outlook

via PNNL IM3 (CC BY 4.0)

Under the model's moderate-growth scenario (5%/yr annual load growth), PNNL's IM3 model sites about 6 standardized 36 MW campuses in Fulton County by 2035 — roughly 216 MW of new electricity demand and ~209 M gal/yr of cooling water. Under the higher-growth scenario (15%/yr) that climbs to 17 campuses (612 MW). For scale, we currently track 29 real data centers in Fulton County (969 MW of reported power).

Modeled new campuses by demand-growth scenario
  • Low growth4
    144 MW · ~139 M gal/yr cooling water
  • Moderate growth6
    216 MW · ~209 M gal/yr cooling water
  • High growth8
    288 MW · ~279 M gal/yr cooling water
  • Higher growth17
    612 MW · ~592 M gal/yr cooling water

The model assigns ~100% of these campuses' cooling to evaporative water cooling in Fulton County (the rest to mechanical/air cooling), a split it derives from local water stress and wet-bulb temperature.

These are modeled candidate sites, not announced or permitted facilities. PNNL's IM3 model places identical 36 MW unit-campuses at feasible locations under each scenario — it shows where demand could concentrate, never a specific parcel. Figures use a market-gravity weight of 50. How the model works.

29 facilities

Every tracked facility

FacilityOperatorStatusMW
ATL03/Red Oak
Union City
TA Realty LLC, Brightstar Commercial Properties LLCProposed150
Data Bank ATL5 Data Center
Litha Springs
DataBank Holdings, Ltd.Proposed72
Fairburn Technology Center
Fairburn
Bohannon Road Venture, LLC.Proposed
Stonewall Tell Data Center
Atlanta
RSC Investment Management LLCProposed
T5 Atl IV
Fairburn
Proposed
Union City Data Center
Union City
Proposed
Vantage Data Centers Stacks Road Campus
Atlanta
Proposed
Vantage: Westlake Project
Atlanta
Proposed
Microsoft Union City Data Center Campus
College Park
Microsoft CorporationUnder construction324
Westlake
South Fulton
Vantage Data Centers Holdings, LLCOperating113
Stacks/College Park
College Park
Vantage Data Centers Holdings, LLCOperating105
QTS Atlanta Data Center 1
Atlanta
QTS Realty Trust, LLCOperating70
East Point Campus
East Point
Microsoft CorporationOperating38
Palmetto Campus
Palmetto
Microsoft CorporationOperating38
Edged ATL01-1
Atlanta
EdgedOperating27
Ascent - Atlanta Data CenterPrime Data CentersMapped (unverified)12
Enterprise Services, LLC
ALPHARETTA
Mapped (unverified)11
Flexential Atlanta - Alpharetta Data Center
Alpharetta
Flexential Corp.Operating6
Atlanta ATL13
Atlanta
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.Operating3
CoreSite AT1
Atlanta
American Tower CorporationOperating
Cox Data CenterPrime Data CentersMapped (unverified)
Digital Realty Data Center
Atlanta
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.Mapped (unverified)
Google FiberAlphabet Inc.Mapped (unverified)
Hewlett-PackardMapped (unverified)
Mapletree Industrial
Alpharetta
Mapped (unverified)
Secure Data CenterPrime Data CentersMapped (unverified)
Strategic Datasphere
Alpharetta
Mapped (unverified)
Sungard Availability Services Atlanta Data Center
Atlanta
SunguardOperating
T5 Data Center
Alpharetta
Prime Data CentersOperating
Accountability

County commissioners

How the Fulton County board votes on each data-center matter — the rezonings, the abatements, the water permits — is built from public-meeting minutes and roll-call records. Know of a vote we should be tracking? Tell us.

Methodology & sources

The risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%). Water and land are not yet measured for our facilities, so those arcs render as "not yet measured" and the weights are renormalized over the factors we can source today — when the data lands, the score updates.

Every row carries a confidence level (high / medium / low) and a source URL. Spot an error? Tell us.