A Georgia developer has filed plans for a data center campus with up to 1.25 gigawatts of power capacity in Lovejoy, a small city in Clayton County roughly 25 miles south of downtown Atlanta. If built as described in city and state filings, the roughly 3.5-million-square-foot project would rank among the largest data center proposals in the Atlanta region, adding to a wave of computing campuses spreading across rural and suburban Georgia.
The project, called Stillwater Technology Park, was filed by Stillwater Development LLC, which asked the City of Lovejoy in December 2025 to rezone about 364 acres spanning three parcels on Panhandle Road β listed as 0 Panhandle Road, 11760 Panhandle Road and 11762 Panhandle Road β from an annexation classification to residential-agricultural, according to a Dec. 15, 2025 meeting agenda published by the city. The Mayor and Council held a public hearing on the request as part of that process.
The developer has also pursued state-level review through Georgia’s Development of Regional Impact process, which requires large projects to be evaluated for effects reaching beyond their home jurisdiction, according to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, which administers the program.
At full buildout, the campus is described in city and state filings as up to 15 buildings totaling about 3.465 million square feet across roughly 400 acres. Central Georgia EMC, an electric membership cooperative serving 14 Georgia counties, is slated to provide the grid interconnection for the site, with capacity referenced in filings at up to 1.25 gigawatts. No hyperscaler, AI company or other corporate tenant has been publicly named for the campus.
Clayton County’s government is separately grappling with the proposal. The county Board of Commissioners has an active moratorium blocking new data center permits, licenses and rezonings on unincorporated land, extended through June 29, 2026, after residents raised concerns about power and water demand tied to data center growth, according to Clayton County and the Clayton County News Daily. Lovejoy, however, is an incorporated municipality, so the county’s moratorium does not reach the Panhandle Road site β a distinction now central to local debate over the project.
District 3 Commissioner TashΓ© Allen, along with the nonprofit Conserve Henry, the Clayton County Water Authority and Clayton County Community Development, is hosting a community forum on Aug. 8, 2026, at the South Clayton Recreation Center in Hampton to discuss what county materials describe as “the proposed Lovejoy Data Center,” including questions about annexation and the respective roles of the city and county.
What it means: The Lovejoy filing is a distinct project from other large Georgia data center developments already in the pipeline, including Google’s data center project in Columbia County and OpenAI’s $20 billion Project Camellia in Effingham County β all in different parts of the state, backed by different developers. Unlike those projects, no end user has been named for the Panhandle Road site, and the proposal remains in the rezoning and regional-review stage rather than under construction. Routing the project through an incorporated city rather than unincorporated Clayton County, where a moratorium is in effect, reflects a pattern showing up elsewhere in Georgia: developers and local governments are drawing new jurisdictional lines as counties move to slow data center approvals.
What to watch: The outcome of the state Development of Regional Impact review, the Lovejoy Mayor and Council’s final vote on the rezoning application, and the Aug. 8 community forum will shape whether β and how β the Panhandle Road project advances. Whether a named tenant later emerges, as has happened with other large Georgia campuses, will also affect how closely regulators and neighboring residents scrutinize the development.
