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Project Springbank (Atlas Development Bartow County Campus)

Adairsville, Bartow County, Georgia · All 6 Atlas Development sites

CancelledOpposedRecord updated September 30, 2026

Project Springbank (Atlas Development Bartow County Campus) is a cancelled data center in Adairsville, Georgia (Bartow County), operated by Atlas Development LLC. The public record puts it at announced February 2025, 432 MW planned, 630 acres, a reported $4.5 billion investment. It faces documented, organized local opposition.

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Facility record

Cancelled

Operator: Atlas Development LLC
Facility type: Data center
Location: Barnsley Gardens Road, Adairsville, Bartow County, GA
Coordinates: 34.3093, -84.9633 (approximate)
Power capacity: 432 MW planned
Land: 630 acres
Investment: $4.5 billion
Announced: February 2025
Utility: Not established from a public source
Cooling: Closed loop
Water use: 0.015 million gallons a day, reported
Jobs: Not established from a public source
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: Opposed
Source confidence: Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

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.

May 13, 2025
Cancelled
Atlas Development withdrew rezoning application Z-25-00006 through its attorney on 2025-05-13, the day before the sole commissioner was to rule, after the Bartow County Planning Commission voted 6-1 on 2025-04-28 to recommend denial. Atlas gave no reason. No refiling of this site has been found. Source: Bartow County Commissioner's Office
February 14, 2025
Proposed
Bartow County submitted Development of Regional Impact #4403 ("Project Springbank", developer Atlas Development LLC) to the Georgia DCA; determined to warrant regional review 2025-02-24. Source: Georgia Department of Community Affairs

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Organized local opposition to Project Springbank (Atlas Development Bartow County Campus) in Adairsville, Bartow County, Georgia is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Residents organized against the rezoning.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.

Residents organized against the rezoning. A change.org petition, "Halt Proposed Land Use Change from Agriculture to Industrial in Bartow County", co-founded by Josh Cauthen, had 1,280 signatures by 2025-03-11 and 1,723 by 2025-03-21, and was reported at over 2,000 by the 2025-04-28 hearing. "The local community is in lockstep against the proposed rezoning," Cauthen said. Residents cited wildlife, well water and the prospect of further industrial rezoning nearby; Atlas's attorney put turnout at its 2025-03-19 town hall at "maybe 20 to 25 people." At the 2025-04-28 planning commission hearing, residents packed the room, many wearing red, and Barnsley Resort president David Friederich called the project "an existential threat" to the resort's business model. The commission voted 6-1 to recommend denial, and Atlas withdrew before the commissioner's decision.

Source: FOX 5 Atlanta

Power and water

DRI #4403 estimates 0.015 MGD (15,000 gallons per day) water demand from Bartow County and zero sewage flow, and describes closed-loop technology.

Notes on the record

Six buildings totaling 2,274,000 sq ft (about 379,000 sq ft each), per DRI #4403, which states the project "will utilize closed loop technology to reduce water and sewer demand." The DRI states a build-out value of $4,500,000,000 and completion in December 2031, and leaves the electrical-load and energy-provider fields blank. The 432 MW figure (six buildings of up to 78 MW each) is from press reporting on the site plan, not the DRI. Property owners per the DRI: The Darryl William Edwards Living Revocable Trust, King Curtis LLC and Riverside NVR LLC. Acreage: the county's minutes and the Daily Tribune give 630 acres for the rezoning request (to Business Park District); earlier press gave 588. Coordinates are the point stated in the DRI filing, not a surveyed site centroid. No named end-user operator was attached to the project. Distinct from Atlas Development's later Stiles Road application off Euharlee Road (withdrawn December 2025).

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.

Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

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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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Kingston Technology Hub (Thor Equities) · Kingston · Thor Equities5 mi · Proposed · 150 MW
Microsoft Data Center Campus, Rome, GA · Rome · Microsoft12 mi · Permitted · Supported
Coosa Data Center (Project Gracie) · Rome · Atlas Development LLC12 mi · Permitted · Opposed
Project Sassy (Atlas Development Rome Campus) · Rome · Atlas Development LLC12 mi · Proposed
Atlas Development Stiles Road Data Center (Euharlee Road) · Cartersville · Atlas Development LLC13 mi · Cancelled · Opposed
DataBank Project Indo · Cartersville · DataBank14 mi · Proposed · 200 MW
Oakley Real Estate Partners Brown Farm Road Data Center · Cartersville · Oakley Real Estate Partners14 mi · Proposed · Opposed
Project Bunkhouse (Digital Realty Data Center Campus) · Stilesboro · Digital Realty15 mi · Permitted · 1.3 GW · Mixed reception

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Project Springbank (Atlas Development Bartow County Campus) in Adairsville?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Springbank (Atlas Development Bartow County Campus)?

No lawsuit over Project Springbank (Atlas Development Bartow County Campus) appears in the record we track as of September 30, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Project Springbank (Atlas Development Bartow County Campus) use?

0.015 million gallons a day is the reported figure on record. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop. DRI #4403 estimates 0.015 MGD (15,000 gallons per day) water demand from Bartow County and zero sewage flow, and describes closed-loop technology.

Who operates Project Springbank (Atlas Development Bartow County Campus), and how big is it?

Atlas Development LLC is the operator on record. We hold 6 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 432 MW. The site is recorded at 630 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Springbank (Atlas Development Bartow County Campus)," updated September 30, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/atlas-project-springbank-adairsville-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/atlas-project-springbank-adairsville-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.New data center proposal in Bartow would require as much power as 324K homes · Rome News-Tribune / Northwest Georgia News · retrieved August 28, 2026
2.Data Center Operator Planning $4.5B Bartow County Campus · Connect CRE · retrieved September 21, 2026
3.Springbank data center application withdrawn · Daily Tribune News (Cartersville) · retrieved September 30, 2026
4.Bartow County planning commission votes to recommend denying data center rezoning request · FOX 5 Atlanta · retrieved September 30, 2026
5.Development of Regional Impact #4403, Project Springbank, initial form (location, owner, size) · Georgia Department of Community Affairs · retrieved September 30, 2026
6.Development of Regional Impact #4403, Project Springbank, additional information (value, water, sewer) · Georgia Department of Community Affairs · retrieved September 30, 2026
7.Petition started, town hall set regarding proposed data center · Daily Tribune News (Cartersville) · retrieved September 30, 2026
8.Minutes, Public Meeting, Bartow County Commissioner, May 14, 2025, Z-25-00006 withdrawn · Bartow County Commissioner's Office · retrieved September 30, 2026
9.Town hall held, public hearing postponed for proposed data center · Daily Tribune News (Cartersville) · retrieved September 30, 2026
10.Backlash over proposed data center near Adairsville · FOX 5 Atlanta · retrieved September 30, 2026

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