Metro Atlanta faced an onslaught of data center development projects in 2024, but it seems the busy year for high-tech computer storage facilities saved its largest proposal for last.
Preliminary plans for “Project Sail” were revealed on Tuesday — New Year’s Eve — for a 13-building data center campus in Coweta County, according to a Development of Regional Impact filing. Each computer storage warehouse is envisioned to span 378,000 square feet, meaning the entire project’s footprint would encompass more than 4.9 million square feet — more than twice the floor space of the Mall of Georgia.
Proposed bya company called Atlas Development LLC, the project’s eye-popping numbers don’t stop there.
The filing estimates the campus will be worth $17 billion when completed by the end of 2036 and will generate nearly $1.6 billion in annual tax revenues for Coweta County. An Atlas Development official in an email confirmed the proposed price tag of the overall project and said county officials estimated the potential tax revenue figure.
“The development is a very large development,” Atlas executive Jonathon Ward said, declining to comment further. Atlas Development, Georgia Secretary of State’s Office records show, was founded in 2017 and has an address is Whitesburg.