Microsoft Palmetto data center
Palmetto, Fulton County, GADeveloper: MicrosoftCensus GEOID 13121
- Stage
- Proposed
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Power, Land, Buildings
Microsoft acquired nearly 21 acres adjacent to its existing Palmetto data center campus in south Fulton County for $6 million to support ongoing data center construction, and later purchased additional land near Atlanta. It is reported; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much power it needs and who would use it have not been disclosed.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Proposed, ringed
- data center
- Smaller pins: 46 other published records in Georgia
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
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.
- Water
- 656,000 gallons a day the developer's figure Not compared: the source did not say whether the figure is withdrawal or consumptive use.
- [2] ajc.com
- Who leads it
- Microsoft as stated by the source
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Land, Buildings, Power it would draw, Who would use it, Jobs once it runs, Tax each year
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | ||||
| How much water it would use | 656,000 gallons a day | the developer's figure | [2] ajc.com (opens in a new tab) | October 21, 2026 |
| How loud it would be | ||||
| Jobs once it runs | ||||
| Tax it would pay each year |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Microsoft | as stated by the source | October 21, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | ||||
| How much land | ||||
| Buildings | ||||
| Where its power comes from | ||||
| Grid connection | ||||
| 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.
- 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 was decided
Acts of Fulton County and Palmetto about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | Atlanta City Council introduced new legislation aimed at regulating local data centers and eliminating their tax breaks | theatlantavoice.com (opens in a new tab) | |
| Atlanta | Communities placing moratoriums on data center development citing concerns about power and water usage, traffic, environmental impacts and noise | wsbradio.com (opens in a new tab) |
What happened
No dated entry is on the record yet.
The site
The pin is the site, as the EPA's facility record places it. Location from an EPA water permit.
- Where
- NW Corner Of Johnson & Williams RD., Palmetto, GA 30268, Palmetto, Fulton County, Georgia [1] echo.epa.gov (opens in a new tab)
- How exactly it is located
- Exact, the point of the EPA's facility record
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Aligned ATL-01, 14 mi
- STACK ATL02, 18 mi
- Equinix Atlanta, 22 mi
- Flexential Atl 4 Data Center, 43 mi
- QTS Suwanee 1, 49 mi
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Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Microsoft Palmetto data center?
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Microsoft is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Microsoft Palmetto data center say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: 656,000 gallons a day (the developer's figure, ajc.com (opens in a new tab)).
Where does Microsoft Palmetto 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 Palmetto or Fulton County decided about it?
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Atlanta: Atlanta City Council introduced new legislation aimed at regulating local data centers and eliminating their tax breaks (reported August 26, 2026, theatlantavoice.com (opens in a new tab)); and Atlanta: Communities placing moratoriums on data center development citing concerns about power and water usage, traffic, environmental impacts and noise (reported July 2, 2026, wsbradio.com (opens in a new tab)). 2 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Primary documents
- EPA ECHO detailed facility report: Microsoft Data Center (CCO06) (opens in a new tab), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Reporting
- Microsoft pays $6M for land to expand data center south of Atlanta - AJC.com (opens in a new tab), AJC.com, March 4, 2024, query feed
- News | Microsoft Buys More Land Near Atlanta As It Expands National Data Center Footprint - CoStar (opens in a new tab), CoStar, May 17, 2024, query feed
3 sources on file.
About this data
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Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Microsoft Palmetto data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/microsoft-palmetto-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
- Coordinates
- 33.522969, -84.631305
- How the location is known
- Location from an EPA facility record.
- Location source
- https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110071963150
- Coordinate source
- https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110071963150
- Location source number
- [1]
- Location last verified
- October 6, 2026
- EPA registry id
- 110071963150
- How water was disclosed
- the developer's figure
- Published
- October 21, 2026
- Last verified
- October 21, 2026
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Uses, Tenancy, Cooling, How capacity was disclosed, How acreage was disclosed, Interconnection, Capacity, if disclosed, Rating of the county's rows