Coweta County, GA: the Project Sail data center

The market's sharpest credibility wound. The annual tax projection was filed at $1,593,585,386, corrected within days to ~$163M, and now stands at $100M at full buildout in year ten; the AJC reported the original as erroneous and the applicant conceded his firm produced it. Coweta's own Tax Commissioner publicly undercut the pitch: 'a $17 billion property will generate less than 1% of its market value in property taxes.' Job counts appear exactly once in the entire record (450 construction and ~270 permanent) in an opinion column by the applicant's attorney, in no county document and no Prologis material.

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The strongest category. An 829-acre Rural Conservation parcel rezoned to Industrial against the comprehensive plan and against the county's own planning staff. Two votes delayed after backlash (19 Aug and 18 Nov 2025); the data center ordinance was weakened between the November hearing and the December vote on recommendations from a CBRE broker, with open records showing the majority of consolidated feedback came from developers and their representatives; hearings relocated to the fairgrounds for capacity and speakers cut off with nine still queued. The pending Superior Court action is entirely a process claim.

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PROVISIONAL, a candidate category this market argues for. In Coweta this is not a subset of Wildlife/Land; it is the organizing frame and it is literally the zoning designation, Rural Conservation. The opposition group is Citizens for Rural Coweta, the PAC is ruralcowetapac.com, and the ask is explicitly siting rather than prohibition: 'we're not opposed to data centers, we're opposed to data centers on rural land in rural Coweta County when there is a tremendous amount of acreage that is zoned or can be zoned more appropriately.' The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the National Parks Conservation Association both objected on heritage and rural-character grounds rather than ecological ones.

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PROVISIONAL, and the best-evidenced instance in the index after Memphis. Four dated reversals: tax revenue $1.59B to $163M to $100M per year; water 9.1 million gallons a day to 6 million to 300,000, a thirty-fold reduction with no engineering document explaining it; cooling described as evaporative by Chattahoochee Riverkeeper as late as March 2026 and as closed-loop air-cooled by the developer now; and 'no new transmission lines needed' set against Georgia Power condemning easements across 330+ parcels and demolishing 21 homes on a line running through Coweta. The county administrator's statement that there was 'never a meeting with developers to talk about the ordinance' is contradicted by open records.

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900 MW, more than Plant Yates next door generates. Displaced almost entirely onto Georgia Power and the PSC rather than onto Prologis: the PSC certified roughly 10 GW of new generation in December 2025 with about 80% expected to serve data centers, and every 2026 ratepayer-protection bill failed. The digital signal here is overwhelmingly rate anger, with Georgia Power's $2.85B 2025 profit cited repeatedly.

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Source is the Chattahoochee River via the county water authority, which holds a new 27 MGD withdrawal permit against 7.7 MGD countywide average use. Chattahoochee Riverkeeper published fact sheets in September 2025 and March 2026. Wahoo Creek crosses the site upstream of Chattahoochee Bend State Park; the litigation alleges roughly 103 acres of wetlands were unaddressed and that the site sits in a Most Significant Groundwater Recharge Area. The water authority's CEO publicly discounted the developer's own ceiling figure.

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Dominant in the digital layer, and aimed more at Georgia Power than at Prologis. The single largest thread in the corpus is about eminent domain, and the register is 'we live in an oligarchy'. An out-of-state REIT framing runs through the local argument, alongside the observation that most Coweta commissioners are real estate agents.

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Unusually well-analyzed for this category. A resident used county parcel records to identify 1,215 parcels within 1.25 miles and, applying a 2022 peer-reviewed study of Fulton County nonresidential rezonings, estimated roughly $118 million in combined residential property-wealth loss. No county- or developer-commissioned property-value study exists; the lawsuit pleads inadequate analysis as a claim.

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Prologis was involved from September 2024 and met county officials from November 2024 but did not surface publicly until May 2025: roughly eight months. The rezoning application and DRI were filed on New Year's Eve. Georgia Power declines to name data center customers. No signed NDA has been produced: the evidence is of opacity, not of a documented instrument.

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PROVISIONAL, and backed by a primary document. On 19 June 2025 a sitting commissioner emailed the Georgia Department of Natural Resources from his campaign account asking the agency to reprimand the DNR employee who had testified and prepared the environmental study, and to require an apology letter to the local paper. Obtained under the Georgia Open Records Act and published 21 August 2025. He voted to approve the rezoning eight months later. The DNR's response was not established.

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A Georgia DNR wildlife biologist surveyed the site, called it relatively undisturbed, recommended species-of-concern surveys before construction and urged preserving it for conservation. The developer's counter is that only about 334 of 834 acres would be developed with 500 as buffer. No listed species was named in any source.

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The county ordinance sets limits at 5 dB over ambient overnight and 10 dB by day, and the July 2026 revision specifically targets low-frequency noise from cooling fans with a stated preference for magnetic fans, a county body legislating against a named acoustic complaint, which is stronger evidence than resident anticipation alone. Concern is concentrated on a ten-year construction period.

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PROVISIONAL, and in an unusual form, not the standard income or racial-disparity frame. The Muscogee (Creek) Nation's Secretary of Culture formally objected that the project 'would negate the efforts to preserve the remaining lands of our historic existence in Coweta County'; the county is named for the Coweta town of the Creek Confederacy and a private cemetery sits on the parcel. Elderly landowners are disproportionately represented among those displaced. No formal EJ screening was located.

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Partly mitigated by condition: two developer-funded roundabouts, turn lanes on both site roads and a no-parking rule are attached to the rezoning. Concern is about the ten-year construction period rather than steady-state operation.

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The tax pitch is explicitly school-funded: $876M to schools over 21 years is claimed. Worth noting as an asymmetry: Prologis's Project Steel in Yorkville, Illinois included a $40M upfront payment to schools; no comparable payment exists here. Children were a front-line issue for Project Oak, where two students testified.

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Concentrated on Project Oak rather than Project Sail. For Sail the documented strand is on-site generator emissions, including the applicant's attorney seeking looser restrictions on generator testing. No health study, air permit analysis or epidemiological claim was located.

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Weak and indirect. Coweta's argument is land use and utilities, not artificial intelligence. Where AI appears it arrives through the power framing. Notably the Georgia Chamber's August 2026 counter-messaging argues most capacity is not primarily AI, which suggests the industry treats the association as the liability.

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