Hawkins Academy Road data center (Social Circle)
Also called: Social Circle Data Center (288 MW)
A three-building, 288-megawatt data center is planned on about 150 acres at Hawkins Academy Road in Social Circle. The planning commission opposed it, but the city council voted in November 2025 to move it forward. The applicant said the end user is secret under an NDA.
Where things stand: Planning commission voted against it in Sept. 2025, but city council voted in Nov. 2025 to clear the way for it.
🕒 Latest update (Nov 2025): City council cast a series of votes to clear the way for the data center.
What we know
- 📍 WhereAbout 150 acres at 0 Hawkins Academy Road and 0 Roy Malcom Road, Social Circle, Walton County
- 🏢 CompanyWSG Land, LLC (applicant)
- 🌳 Size151 acres
- ⚡ Power it needs288 megawatts (about as much as 230,400 homes)
- 🔌 Where the power comes fromPlans include a substation; each building would get 96 MW.
- 🤐 Secret deal (NDA)Yes. The applicant said the end user could not be named because of a secret deal (NDA).
❓ Still unanswered
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- Is Atlas Development involved, as one tracker says? 🙋 I'll find out
What happened so far
- Sept 16, 2025Social Circle passed a 90-day pause on new data center applications.
- Sept 23, 2025Planning commission unanimously voted not to recommend the annexation, rezoning and special use.
- Nov 2025City council cast a series of votes to clear the way for the data center.
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.
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Where this comes from
- Data center proposal in Social Circle, Georgia, fails to receive recommendation from Planning Commission · Data Center Dynamics · Sept 2025
- Social Circle City Council approves new data center · The Covington News / The Walton Tribune · Nov 26, 2025
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