T5@Augusta
Augusta, Richmond County, GA
T5@Augusta is an operating data center in Augusta, GA, run by T5 Data Centers. The facility is reported at 200 MW. T5 Data Centers operates this data center at 2865 Gordon Highway, Augusta, GA 30909. It covers 1,670,000 square feet and has 200 MW of IT capacity.
- 200 MWPlanned capacity
Project status
- Announced Jan 18, 2022
- Permitting
- Under construction
- Operational
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Georgia state legislation
- Georgia PSC Docket #56310 - Certification of Supplemental Resources for 2028-2031 CapacityCompanion certification docket to #56298, part of the same Dec 2025 generation-capacity approval package tied to data-center demand growth.Download
- Georgia PSC Docket #56002 - Georgia Power 2025 Integrated Resource PlanFiled Jan 2025, projecting ~8,200-8,500MW of load growth through 2030 overwhelmingly attributed to data centers. Approved July 2025.Download
- Georgia PSC Docket #44280 - Large-Load Tariff Rule + Rate FreezePSC adopted a rule (Jan 2025) requiring large-load customers ≥100MW to sign customized contracts with financial guarantees, plus a July 2025 stipulated agreement freezing Georgia Power base rates through 2028 to shield residential ratepayers from data-center cost-shifting.Download
- Georgia PSC Docket #56298 - Certification of Capacity from 2029-2031 All-Source RFPUnanimously approved Dec 2025 -- ~9,885MW combined (with companion docket #56310) of new generation capacity, explicitly to meet data-center-driven demand.Download
- HB6984 - Data Center Transparency Act (environmental reporting)Requires reports on data center effects on air/water quality and electricity consumption.Download
- SB408 - Advances sunset date for data center tax exemptionAdvances the sunset date for the data center equipment sales and use tax exemption.Download
- HB4319 - Property Owner Protection from Data Center Impacts ActProvides compensation to property owners for harm caused by data center construction or operation within 1,000 feet.Download
- SB232 - One-year moratorium on hyperscale data centersImposes a one-year moratorium on construction or expansion of hyperscale data centers.Download
- HB1059 - Data Center Impact Assessment and Development Moratorium Act of 2026Prohibits construction or development of new data centers for a specified time pending impact assessment.Download
- Nine-Month MoratoriumCamden County, Georgia enacted a nine-month moratorium on data center development, May 5, 2026.Download
- Resolution 2025-193 (Moratorium)Clayton County moratorium on new data centers, approved September 2, 2025, expired December 31, 2025.Download
- Ordinance 25-O-1063Second Atlanta zoning ordinance on data centers, adopted June 2, 2025.Download
- Data Center Text Amendment (lifted moratorium ordinance)DeKalb County, Georgia ordinance lifting its data center moratorium and replacing it with zoning text amendments, January 22, 2026.Download
- Data Center Ban Lifted / Replacement OrdinanceAthens-Clarke County lifted its data center ban and replaced it with a regulatory ordinance on April 9, 2026.Download
- Ordinances 24-O-1218 & 24-O-1222Atlanta zoning ordinances enacted September 3, 2024 regulating data center siting.Download
- Georgia PSC Docket #55378 - Large Load Economic Development ReportingHome of Georgia Power's recurring quarterly large-load/data-center pipeline reports (GW of prospective customers, materialization/attrition rates). Named customers referenced across filings: QTS, Meta, Microsoft, Google, X, Walmart.Download
- SB34 - Public Service Commission; costs incurred by an electric utility as a result of providing electric services to commercial data centers from being included in any rates; prohibitDescription comingDownload
Site details
- Operator
- T5 Data Centers
- County
- Richmond County, GA
- Capacity
- 200 MW
- Address
- Augusta, GA
- Stage
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Augusta data center faces years of power grid delaysAugusta Chronicle
Georgia’s data center building boom comes with a cost for schoolsThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An $8 billion Treasury break helped Meta’s tax rate hit 2%. Senators want data center tax answersFortune
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