Facebook Social Circle data center
Social Circle, Newton County, GADeveloper: FacebookCensus GEOID 13217
- Stage
- Proposed
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Power, Land, Buildings, Water
Facebook announced a data center campus near Social Circle, Georgia with a $750 million investment in the first phase, expected to be operational in 2020. It is reported; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Who leads it
- Facebook as stated by the source
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Land, Buildings, Power it would draw, Water, Who would use it, Jobs once it runs, Tax each year
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
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The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
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| Who is building it | as stated by the source | October 21, 2026 | ||
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| Buildings | ||||
| Where its power comes from | ||||
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| How it is cooled |
A blank value cell means not disclosed by any source on file; a blank basis cell means the source gave the figure without saying on what basis.
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water use A state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use it A lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would draw A utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and tax An incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
No dated entry is on the record yet.
The site
No location is on file for this record, so it has no pin on any map. It is placed in Newton County, Social Circle, by name only.
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Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Facebook Social Circle data center?
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Facebook is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Facebook Social Circle data center say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Facebook Social Circle data center stand today?
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It is reported; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. No dated entry is on the record yet.
What has Social Circle or Newton County decided about it?
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No decision by Social Circle or Newton County about data centers is on the record. The Newton County page and the Georgia scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Reporting
- Facebook to start construction of sprawling Atlanta area data center - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (opens in a new tab), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 7, 2018, query feed
1 source on file.
About this data
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Data Center Record, "Facebook Social Circle data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/facebook-social-circle-data-center-ga. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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For researchers
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- built from one source
- Tags
- Built from one source
- Published
- October 21, 2026
- Last verified
- October 21, 2026
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Coordinates, How the location is known, Location source, Coordinate source, Location source number, Location last verified, EPA registry id, Uses, Tenancy, Cooling, How capacity was disclosed, How water was disclosed, How acreage was disclosed, Interconnection, Capacity, if disclosed, Rating of the county's rows