Crypto and AI data center firm Core Scientific is looking to expand its existing footprint in Dalton, Georgia.
As reported by NewsChannel9, the Whitfield County Board of Commissioners last week approved the company’s request to rezone more than 170 acres along Old Tilton Road from general agriculture and rural residential to heavy manufacturing.
The company is looking to build an AI data center (known as Dalton 4) on the greenfield land, close to its existing buildings. A second facility may be built in the future. The new site is a few miles south of Core Scientific’s existing facility at 2205 Industrial South Road.
The company plans to have the first data center on the Old Tilton site open by July of 2026. Further details were not shared.
Core Scientific’s Dalton footprint totals around 195MW.
According to a 2024 investor presentation, Dalton 1 totals 50MW while Dalton 3 offers 145MW. The company says Dalton 1, launched in 2018, houses Nvidia DGX hardware.
Core Scientific also has nine sites across North Dakota, Kentucky, North Carolina, Alabama, Texas, and Oklahoma.
Founded in 2017 as a crypto firm, the company has since pivoted to also offering hosting to AI cloud firms. It has signed multiple deals with AI cloud firm CoreWeave, and expects to have 500MW of infrastructure ready for CoreWeave by the second half of 2026; it is building new sites and converting a number of its existing crypto sites to host the AI company.
