4 data center projects in Social Circle City
Who decides here: the City Council of Social Circle City votes on zoning. The Walton County may review big projects too.
In Social Circle City
Sailfish data center (Social Circle Parkway)
Social Circle, Walton County
300 acres
🕒 Dec 10, 2024: Walton County commissioners unanimously approved Social Circle's annexation request.
Approved, not built yetHawkins Academy Road data center (Social Circle)
Social Circle, Walton County
151 acres
🕒 Nov 2025: City council cast a series of votes to clear the way for the data center.
Approved, not built yetEast Hightower Trail data center (Social Circle)
Social Circle, Walton County
96 acres
🕒 Nov 18, 2025: Social Circle City Council approved a special use permit for a data center on 96 acres.
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Proposed1402 Roy Malcom Road data center (Social Circle)
Social Circle, Walton County
123 acres
🕒 April 6, 2026: Planning commission public hearings were scheduled.
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Nearby (within 15 miles)
Newton County / Social Circle Technology Park (TPA Group, SC Infrastructure)
Social Circle, Newton County
317 acres
🕒 March 21, 2025: The City of Social Circle refiled it as Social Circle Technology Park (DRI #4426).
Proposedabout 6 miles awayGregory Road data center campus
Covington, Newton County
213 acres
🕒 March 27, 2025: A data center campus of up to 1.41 million square feet on about 213 acres (plus 27 home …
Being builtabout 8 miles awayAmazon Web Services data center (Alcovy Road, Covington)
Covington, Newton County
430 acres · for Amazon Web Services
🕒 Dec 15, 2025: Covington City Council approved a $100 million agreement for Amazon to build a water tre…
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Being builtabout 9 miles awayServerfarm data center with on-site gas power (Covington)
Covington, Newton County
🕒 July 2026: Georgia EPD sent notices of violation to VoltaGrid and Serverfarm and ordered the gas po…
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Built & runningabout 10 miles awayMeta Stanton Springs (Newton) data center campus
Unincorporated Newton County, Newton County
for Meta
🕒 May 2026: Morgan County residents near the site said their well water turned muddy; the EPA said i…
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Local votes and rules
✋ Turned down
Social Circle's planning commission voted unanimously against recommending annexation, land-use changes, rezoning and a special use for a 150-acre, 288-megawatt data center at Hawkins Academy Road and Roy Malcom Road. The applicant said the end user was secret under a non-disclosure agreement. This was a recommendation; the city council makes the final decision.
⏸️ Pause on new data centers
Social Circle's city council voted unanimously for a 90-day pause on new data center applications while it reviewed proposals already in hand.
What you can do
- Get told first.
We'll email you if anything changes in Social Circle City. - Go to council meetings.
Anyone can speak. Big projects usually need a public hearing. - Ask questions in writing.
Use our checklist.
🔔 Get told first
⚡ Your electric company
Depending on where you live in Social Circle City: Georgia Power Co. (company) or Walton Electric Member Corp. (co-op (owned by its members)).
Big data centers need a lot of power. Who pays for new power lines depends on state rules. See the rules in Georgia.
🙋 Open tasks here
- Did Social Circle approve the annexation and rezoning?
- Who is the end user?
- How much power will it use?
- Who is the end user covered by the NDA?
- How much water will it use?
- Is Atlas Development involved, as one tracker says?
- Who is the developer and end user?
- How big will it be?
- Did Social Circle City Council approve it on April 21, 2026?
- Who is the operator?