Data Center Registry

Burkhalter Road Data Center (4AM Development)

Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia

ProposedIn litigationRecord updated October 28, 2026

Burkhalter Road Data Center (4AM Development) is a proposed data center in Statesboro, Georgia (Bulloch County), operated by 4AM Development, LLC (developer; operator undisclosed). The public record puts it at announced August 18, 2026, 27 acres. It is or has been the subject of litigation over its siting, permitting, or operation.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: 4AM Development, LLC (developer; operator undisclosed)
Facility type: Data center
Location: 6539 Burkhalter Road, Statesboro, Bulloch County, GA
Coordinates: 32.4049, -81.7440 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: 27 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: August 18, 2026
Utility: Not established from a public source
Cooling: Closed loop
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: Not established from a public source
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: In litigation
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

August 18, 2026
Proposed
Statesboro City Council approved the rezoning of the ~27-acre Burkhalter Road site 3-2, with the mayor breaking the tie. A special use permit is still required and no operator has been selected. Source: Statesboro Herald

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Burkhalter Road Data Center (4AM Development) in Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia is or has been the subject of litigation over its siting, permitting, or operation. Coastal Communities United and eleven individual petitioners filed a petition for review and request for declaratory judgment in Bulloch County Superior Court on 2026-09-17, challenging the 3-2 city council rezoning of 2026-08-18 from R-4 residential to O office/business.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: in litigation means the facility is or has been the subject of a lawsuit related to its siting, permitting, or operation.

Coastal Communities United and eleven individual petitioners filed a petition for review and request for declaratory judgment in Bulloch County Superior Court on 2026-09-17, challenging the 3-2 city council rezoning of 2026-08-18 from R-4 residential to O office/business. The petition argues a 99 MW facility falls within the city's own hyperscale definition, which the city declared unlawful to build inside city limits, and raises watershed and Floridan Aquifer impacts from water use and cooling-system wastewater seepage, plus noise, vibration and traffic.

Source: Statesboro Herald

Notes on the record

Two-story building of roughly 230,000 sq ft plus a 3/4-acre reserved Georgia Power substation site. The concept plan describes 40-90 MW and the developers applied to Georgia Power for a maximum of 99 MW; no single figure is asserted here. Owners named as Bobby Bagwell and Charles C. Way; the site is being zoned speculatively. No investment figure is recorded. The Statesboro Herald reports a developer-funded fiscal-impact analysis by Economic Impact Group LLC for the Development Authority of Bulloch County that "suggested a $1.2 billion total 10-year investment", under the subheading "Supposed $1.2B project"; developer Way said private investment would depend on the ultimate design but would be "somewhere in the high hundreds of millions of dollars". Coordinates are approximate to Burkhalter Road pending parcel confirmation.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

Power capacity in megawatts
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised: The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Burkhalter Road Data Center (4AM Development) in Statesboro?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Burkhalter Road Data Center (4AM Development)?

Yes. This site is recorded as being in litigation. The case, the court, and the filings we hold are listed on this page under the timeline and the sources.

How much water does Burkhalter Road Data Center (4AM Development) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Burkhalter Road Data Center (4AM Development) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Burkhalter Road Data Center (4AM Development), and how big is it?

4AM Development, LLC (developer; operator undisclosed) is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 27 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Burkhalter Road Data Center (4AM Development)," updated October 28, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/4am-development-burkhalter-road-statesboro-ga.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/4am-development-burkhalter-road-statesboro-ga, retrieved October 29, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.Mayor and council approve rezoning for Burkhalter data center by 3-2 vote · Statesboro Herald · retrieved September 12, 2026
2.Eleven citizens and nonprofit group file legal challenge to Statesboro data center rezoning · Statesboro Herald · retrieved September 23, 2026

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