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AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road)

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ProposedNo reception on recordRecord updated October 14, 2026

AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road) is a proposed data center in Covington, Georgia (Newton County), operated by Amazon Web Services. The public record puts it at 430 acres.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator
Amazon Web Services
Facility type
Data center
Location
Covington, Newton County, GA
Coordinates
33.5968, -83.8602 (approximate)
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
430 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
Not established from a public source
Cooling
Hybrid
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
No reception on record
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.

  1. December 15, 2025
    Proposed
    Covington council approved a $100M AWS-funded water treatment/cooling facility agreement for the planned data center; AWS has not disclosed size, power, or construction timeline Source: W.Media

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of October 14, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road) in Covington, Newton County, Georgia appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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A new status, a permit, a reception finding, or a lawsuit. Nothing else, ever.

Power and water

AWS says cooling relies on outside air ~94% of the year, with water-based cooling only ~6% of the year. A $100M AWS-funded water treatment and cooling facility agreement was approved by Covington on Dec 15, 2025, and the reclaimed-water system is estimated to save >45M gallons of freshwater per year.

Notes on the record

About 430 acres along Alcovy Road near I-20 in Covington, bought in January 2024 for $36M in three transactions. AWS has not disclosed size, power or a construction timeline. Coordinates are the Covington city centroid.

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
  • How the community has received it
  • 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.
How the community has received it
Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
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.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road) in Covington?

Nothing on record as of October 14, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road) in Covington, Newton County, Georgia appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road)?

No lawsuit over AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road) appears in the record we track as of October 14, 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 AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road) use?

No water withdrawal figure for AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as hybrid, 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 AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road), and how big is it?

Amazon Web Services is the operator on record. We hold 62 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 430 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "AWS Covington Data Center (Alcovy Road)," updated October 14, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/aws-covington-alcovy-road-newton-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/aws-covington-alcovy-road-newton-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. 1.AWS plans new Data Center in Georgia, USA · W.Media · retrieved October 14, 2026

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