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Project Bunkhouse (Digital Realty Data Center Campus)

Digital Realty · Stilesboro, GA · United States

Facility record

Lifecycle
PermittedSource-reported lifecycle
Location precision
approximate
Address as listed
Not published
Coordinates
34.096532, -84.911951
Serving utility, source-reported
Georgia Power
Operational capacity, source-reported
Not published
Planned capacity, source-reported
1300 MW
Source record updated
2026-09-30

Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.

Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.

Reported lifecycle history

  1. Proposed

    Bartow County submitted Development of Regional Impact #4433 ("Project Bunkhouse") to the Georgia DCA; determined to warrant regional review 2025-04-01.

    Underlying source
  2. Permitted

    Sole Commissioner Steve Taylor approved rezoning case Z-25-00020 (applicant Taurus DC SPE LLC), 876.57 acres from A-1 to Business Park Development and the land-use map from Agricultural to Industrial, with conditions.

    Underlying source

Source notes

Applicant of record is Taurus DC SPE LLC (Bartow County rezoning case Z-25-00020); no source reviewed names a parent company for that entity. Operator: Bartow County's August 2026 policy statement refers to the campus as "Digital Realty's investment in the Stilesboro area". The county's minutes of the June 4, 2025 hearing, summarizing the presentation by the applicant's attorney, Scott Peters, record: "This is a Digital Realty project. It is not a Crypto center.", and Andrew Alves of Digital Realty appeared as part of the Project Bunkhouse team at the May 19, 2025 planning commission hearing (Daily Tribune). Digital Realty has not announced the project in its own press releases. Property owner per the DRI filing: Gaines Family Land LLC; the DRI's developer field names Brian B. West of Kimley-Horn (engineering consultant). Site: Taff Road south of GA Hwy 113, south of Georgia Power's Plant Bowen, also bordering Floyd Creek Church Road; tax parcels 0032-1184-001, 0032-1122-001, 0032a-003-002 and 0032b-003-006; Raccoon Creek runs along the property. Coordinates are the point stated in the DRI filing, not a surveyed site centroid. Size: the DRI filing states 8,675,000 sq ft; the approved rezoning caps total building area at 8,300,000 sq ft. Capacity: Bartow County's August 2026 data-center policy statement says "Digital Realty's investment in the Stilesboro area, planned for approximately 1.3 gigawatts of computing capacity, has indicated a total build-out capital investment on the order of eighteen billion dollars," and that Digital Realty "forecasts total employment in excess of 800 jobs once the campus is complete"; the 1.3 GW is recorded as planned capacity. Earlier, a site plan obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (April 2025) put the project's power needs at 1,830 MW with three on-site substations; the DRI filing's energy-demand field is blank. The same county statement says Bartow County has granted no tax abatements, PILOT or comparable arrangement to these data center facilities. Value: the DRI filing states an estimated build-out value of $19 billion and projected annual property tax of at least $40-50 million, with build-out estimated for 2035. Incentives: the DRI filing said the project was "in the process of incentive negotiations" with the Bartow-Cartersville Joint Development Authority; the county's economic development director, Melinda Lemmon, said that was "mistakenly included in the DRI filing" and that the authority "is not negotiating incentives with the data center calling themselves Project Bunkhouse or any other data center" (Daily Tribune, April 2, 2025). No bond validation, PILOT or abatement for the project has been found. Rezoning conditions include: an 8,300,000 sq ft cap; buffers required before occupancy; primary access from Taff Road only; distribution, manufacturing, warehousing, outdoor storage, towers, laboratories and retail prohibited; water-efficient HVAC required. Other DRI figures: about 8,588 average daily vehicle trips, about 29% impervious surface, wetlands, floodplain and historic resources present on site (impacts not expected per the filing). No building permits or site work have been reported since the rezoning.

Utility is from the HIFLD retail service-territory layer, not a project statement. At the rezoning hearing the applicant's attorney said the site is adjacent to Plant Bowen and high-voltage transmission lines, and that "all the power will come off the existing lines and into the substation at the corner of Brandon Farm Road and Taff Road" (county minutes). No Georgia Power or Georgia PSC filing naming the project was found. The 1,830 MW figure is from a site plan reported by the AJC, not a utility filing.

Sources and provenance

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.

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