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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Digital Realty Fort Gillem Data Center Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Digital Realty
- Address and locality
- Forest Park · Clayton County · Georgia
- Official metro area
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 212 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 14 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001827
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.
- Land area
- 97 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $3 billion
What the source record says
Two mission-critical facilities on ~97 acres at the former Fort Gillem Army base in Forest Park: ~1.9M sq ft and ~212 MW initial IT load. About $3B total proposed, including >$100M for remediation. First phase expected early 2028. Digital Realty projects 60–75 permanent jobs after phase 1. All figures are subject to change, per Digital Realty. Coordinates are the Forest Park city centroid.
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
- 2025-06 · source-reported proposed
Digital Realty project page describes a two-facility campus at former Fort Gillem; first phase expected early 2028
Sources and attribution
- Fort Gillem data center project · Digital Realty
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1+reviewed-2610e0556b3d, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID digital-realty-fort-gillem-forest-park-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-001827
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Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- Forest Park, GA · Clayton (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Digital Realty
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2025-06 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 97 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 212 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $3 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-14
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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