A large data center campus is being planned outside Augusta, Georgia.
Commercial real estate firm and CBRE subsidiary Trammel Crow Company this week filed a Development of Regional Impact application with the Georgia Department of State Affairs for a technology campus known as the White Oak Technology Park.
Located in Columbia County’s Appling, off Morris Callaway Road & Innovation Parkway, the technology park aims to “attract and accommodate world-class technology businesses and data center development.”
The campus would total 8.076 million sq ft (750,285 sqm) of proposed buildings, including 8.004 million sq ft (743,595 sqm) of data centers.
Proposed uses include data centers, research & development facilities, cybersecurity providers, digital infrastructure and advanced technology companies, and other uses associated with data centers and technology facilities.
The first phase would be developed within the next two years, with the remaining phases built out over the next decade and beyond.
An Amazon fulfillment center is already located in the existing 612-acre White Oak Business Park in Appling.
Commissioner Alison Couch of District 4 last week said that the Columbia County Development Authority was about to file a rezoning application requesting 1,900 acres next to the White Oak Industrial Park be granted a Special Use (S-1) zoning. The request would allow for data centers, R&D facilities, and related uses.
“I have been researching Technology Parks for months, [including] on-site visits to multiple data centers in the state,” she said. “Based on my observations, I have concluded this use of land offers extremely low overall impact to the surrounding area, while generating tremendous tax revenues in return. I believe this to be the best possible type of development on this property that we could hope for.”
T5 previously had a campus in development in Augusta, a city in northeast Georgia on the state border with South Carolina, but is no longer involved in the project.
Trammell Crow Company is a commercial real estate development company owned by CBRE since 2006. The company was previously involved in filing for a data center project outside Atlanta in Winston. That campus will total 2.255 million sq ft (209,500 sqm) across seven two-story buildings. The first phase of the project will be completed by 2027.
Construction firm Hourigan has developed a separate and unrelated data center park known as the White Oak Technology Park outside Richmond, Virginia. Meta, Iron Mountain, and QTS are known customers of that park.
