Data centers in Henry County, Georgia: 3 projects mapped

More is planned around Hampton. Equinix is developing a 240-megawatt, four-building campus in the area, and Hampton Technology Park Owner LLC has filed a regional-impact application for a 603-acre campus on Lower Woolsey Road of up to five buildings and 4 million square feet, to be built out through 2033. In August 2026 construction near South Lee Road and Lower Woolsey Road drew protest because it sits next to a historic Black cemetery with 54 documented names and 16 undocumented enslaved people. "It hurts. It hurts. We're out here advocating and trying to save these cemeteries and they're constantly ignoring us," said Shawndrea Gay of the preservation effort. The city set a 50-foot buffer, and Mayor Ann Tarpley said the goal is to get the cemetery on the state and national historic registers.

The county is trying to catch up. The Henry County Water Authority now requires any business using more than 100,000 gallons a day to pay for its own feasibility study. A draft county ordinance would allow data centers only in the M-1 and M-2 manufacturing districts, with a 200-foot landscape buffer, a 500-foot setback from non-industrial land, a 1,000-foot setback from homes, noise capped at 55 decibels by day and 45 at night, no open evaporative cooling, and 30 percent open space on each site. "I'm all about something that is going to support us economically, but at the same time, not off the backs of our constituents for their quality of life," Commissioner Neat Robinson said. Both the county's revised ordinance, due back for a vote in February 2026, and Hampton's proposed 120-day data center moratorium, set for a vote the same month, were scheduled for then; no result has been published for either.