LAGRANGE, Ga. β A new state filing for a data center project surfaced this week in Troup County, Georgia, the home of Google’s $8 billion “Project Pegasus” campus in LaGrange. The filing was submitted under Georgia’s year-old review process for large data centers, and its location in the same county as Google’s already-confirmed campus raises the question of whether one of the state’s largest hyperscale sites is about to get bigger.
The filing matters because Troup County, roughly 70 miles southwest of Atlanta, has become one of Georgia’s most closely watched data-center corridors, drawing billions in investment along with resident pushback over land, water and power use. Any expansion of Google’s confirmed project would add to a campus that local officials have credited with replacing electric load the city lost when its largest industrial customer closed in 2024.
According to the nonprofit newsroom The Current, Development of Regional Impact (DRI) forms for data center projects were filed with the state the week of July 20 in both Troup and Clayton counties. Those filings included supplemental information on estimated annual local tax revenue, daily water demand, traffic volumes and surrounding environmental conditions β the kind of disclosure required under a rule the Georgia Department of Community Affairs board approved in November 2025, which added data centers, categorized as “technological facilities,” to the list of developments subject to state regional-impact review, according to the Georgia Recorder. The Current’s report does not name the applicant behind the Troup County filing, and no county or state record reviewed for this story publicly ties it to a specific company.
Troup County is currently home to at least two large, separately confirmed data-center proposals. One is Google’s Project Pegasus, an $8 billion project at 411 Pegasus Parkway in LaGrange that Google confirmed in April 2026 after months in which it was known only as an unnamed filing. Jen Ryan, Google’s regional head of data center public affairs, said at the time that the company’s goal was “to be a good neighbor,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The project involves retrofitting a more than 600,000-square-foot former Jindal Films packaging plant on roughly 420 acres, with an on-site substation initially rated near 50 megawatts and a stated company goal of reaching as much as 400 megawatts as the campus grows, the AJC reported. LaGrange City Manager Patrick Bowie told WSB-TV that the project fills a void left when Jindal Films Americas, once the city’s largest electric customer, closed its LaGrange plant in 2024.
The other confirmed proposal is “Project West,” a separate $9.7 billion plan for a six-building, 1.5-million-square-foot campus on 513 acres between Hamilton Road and Whitesville Road, filed in March 2025 by the property owner working with an undisclosed data-center developer, according to the AJC. That filing projected roughly $60 million in annual county tax revenue at full build-out, and no end user has been publicly named for it to date.
Because neither The Current’s report nor other public records reviewed for this story identify which Troup County project the new DRI filing belongs to, it is not yet possible to confirm whether it is tied to Google’s campus, to Project West, or to a separate proposal altogether.
What it means: What is confirmed is that Google operates a named, budgeted data-center project in Troup County; that a new state filing for an unnamed data-center project covering the county was submitted this week; and that Georgia’s DRI rule, in effect since November 2025, requires this kind of disclosure going forward, whereas Google’s original Pegasus filing predated the rule and did not carry the same public water-and-energy disclosure requirements, according to Georgia Public Broadcasting. RealtyWire’s analysis: given that Google’s site is the county’s most advanced confirmed hyperscale project and has publicly signaled room to grow toward 400 megawatts, continued build-out there is a plausible explanation for the new filing β but county officials have not confirmed that link, and this story treats it as unconfirmed.
What to watch: Troup County’s Board of Zoning Appeals and Planning Commission and its Board of Commissioners meet on a regular schedule and have handled data-center matters at recent sessions; their agendas, along with the state’s DRI case file, should eventually identify the applicant. How the filing interacts with the county’s data-center ordinance, approved in April 2026 after a moratorium, will help determine how much additional power, water and tax revenue Troup County takes on next. This is a separate matter from RealtyWire’s previous reporting on Google’s role as end user of an 8-million-square-foot data center project in Columbia County, Georgia β a different project roughly 100 miles away, near Appling.
