Project Pegasus data center, LaGrange, Georgia

Google is building Project Pegasus, a data center under construction at 411 Pegasus Parkway in LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia, which it confirmed in April 2026. In July 2026 it filed to add a second building of 470,000 square feet, valued at $1 billion, with construction that could run until 2029 while work continues on the first building.

The site is the former LaGrange plant of Jindal Films, which made packaging films and closed in 2024, leaving the city without its largest electric customer. Thor Equities bought the 270-acre property in 2024, including a 506,220 square foot building and a substation capable of 100 MVA transformation, and planned it for its data center arm, Form8tion, though Thor has since told Data Center Dynamics it is no longer involved.

Thor had said the first building could total 50 megawatts and go live in late 2026 or early 2027, with an eventual 400 megawatts targeted. The project was led by the Development Authority of LaGrange, which had already validated bonds for it by September 2025, City Planner Mark Kostial said.

In early April 2026 emergency crews rescued a construction worker who was severely injured on the building's roof.

The city has no property tax and relies on utility revenue, and City Manager Patrick Bowie said the power contract could double that revenue. "Google's decision to locate here fills a vital void in our utility system left by the closing of our largest electric customer," Bowie said.

Google says it will cover the full cost of the site's power and infrastructure, and it is giving $1 million to Groundswell's Save On Utilities Long-term program for upgrades for at least 50 LaGrange families.

Water is the open question. Google's own report shows its Douglas County data center returns only about 17% of its water to the supply, with the rest evaporating, WSB-TV reported. Katie Ottenweller of Google said the company would "replenish 120% of all of the water that we use at a certain data center site," and Bowie said the former textile town has water to spare.

Many residents felt the project got through without a say. When the city council adopted a 180-day moratorium on new data centers in September 2025, City Attorney Jeff Todd said it could not apply to this site: "You can't apply a moratorium to someone who already has vested rights in the system."

Councilmember Darby Pippin said in April 2026 there had been "a great deal of public outcry" that the project had "somehow slipped through the cracks," even though it went through three public hearings.

Cyndie Hutchings of the Troup County Anti-Data Center Coalition told the council: "There was also nothing about community benefits agreements, which we feel was something that we really missed out on with the Google data center." Councilman Leon Childs recused himself from the city's data center votes after colleagues noted that his employer, Groundswell, is backed by Google.

LaGrange's own 180-day moratorium, which explicitly did not cover this site, ended in March 2026 when the city council voted 3-2 to require a special-use permit, with an advertised public hearing, for every new data center in the city.

Troup County's separate moratorium on the unincorporated county, extended in February 2026, was lifted in May 2026 when commissioners adopted permanent rules requiring a special-use permit, heavy industrial zoning, closed-loop cooling and 1,500-foot setbacks from homes, schools and other sensitive sites.

Also in the LaGrange area, Project West WHP-GA LLC filed in March 2025 for a 1.5 million square foot data center campus whose end user has not been named. The second Pegasus building has been filed with Georgia's Department of Community Affairs as a development of regional impact; the filing called any later phases "speculative at this time."