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Reported geography
Source-reported location for QTS Project Eisenhower.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- QTS Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Augusta · Richmond County · Georgia
- Official metro area
- Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 25 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001205
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Georgia Power
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 170 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Energy. Georgia Power confirmed as the electric utility (Georgia Power Region Executive at a May 2026 community luncheon).
Water. Closed-loop cooling that 'does not consume water for cooling once operational' (QTS); QTS discontinued evaporative cooling in 2018. An anticipated ~18,000 gal/day per building is for sanitation/domestic use (early-planning estimate, not a permitted figure). Augusta Utilities is in talks to supply treated wastewater as cooling feedstock; water source is the Savannah River basin via Augusta Utilities.
Community. Organized neighborhood opposition (Haynes Station / Captain's Corner) over transparency, noise, environmental impact, and Savannah River water use; residents spoke at Augusta Commission meetings (May-June 2026). Augusta approved a 49-day moratorium on NEW data centers (June 2026) that explicitly excludes this already-approved QTS campus. No lawsuit against this campus.
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- Announced investment: The source note says the roughly $2 billion figure is a developer projection from a zoning hearing and was meant to be omitted as an investment value.
What the source record says
Project Eisenhower in Augusta, Richmond County — 6 buildings across ~170 acres, $2B+ project. Rezoned 2024-25 with preliminary grading underway. Estimated 300-500 MW (not officially disclosed — omitted from capacity). Coordinates are the Augusta area centroid. The ~$2B figure is a developer projection from a 2024 zoning hearing (building permits not yet issued) -> investmentUsd omitted. QTS projects ~1,000 construction and ~160-220 permanent jobs (projections) -> jobs honest-zero. Georgia's high-technology data-center sales-tax exemption and an Augusta EDA bond/PILOT are available programs, but no confirmed award for this campus was found -> subsidy honest-zero. QTS Data Centers is owned by Blackstone (2021 take-private).
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026 · source-reported under construction
QTS 'Project Eisenhower' in Augusta (Richmond County): 6 buildings on ~170 acres, $2B+; rezoned 2024-25, preliminary grading underway
Sources and attribution
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- New data center will be twice as big as Augusta Mall · WRDW
- QTS data center project raises questions about Savannah River water use · WRDW
- Augustans urge city leaders to put data centers on hold · WRDW
- Luncheon provides information on QTS data center project in Augusta · WRDW
- Yahoo News — "$2 billion Augusta data center project could come online in mid-2026"
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID qts-eisenhower-augusta-ga. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001205
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Augusta, GA · Richmond (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: QTS Data Centers
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 170 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Georgia Power
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-07-25
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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