Data Center Registry
Project Oak Data Center (Walt Sanders Road)
Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia
Project Oak Data Center (Walt Sanders Road) is a cancelled data center in Newnan, Georgia (Coweta County), operated by Undisclosed developer. The public record puts it at 255 acres. It faces documented, organized local opposition.
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Facility record
Cancelled
- Operator
- Undisclosed developer
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Newnan, Coweta County, GA
- Coordinates
- 33.4331, -84.7302 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 255 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- 0.028 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
- 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.
- September 2026CancelledThe Coweta County Board of Commissioners unanimously denied the rezoning application to allow data center use on the Walt Sanders Road industrial property. County procedure requires a six-month wait before reapplying. Source: Newnan Times-Herald
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Organized local opposition to Project Oak Data Center (Walt Sanders Road) in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Coweta County received 121 letters of opposition from 112 individuals and none in support; the denial drew applause from a standing-room-only crowd.
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.
Coweta County received 121 letters of opposition from 112 individuals and none in support; the denial drew applause from a standing-room-only crowd.
Power and water
The application stated approximately 28,000 gallons per day.
Notes on the record
The site remains zoned industrial with pre-existing conditions limiting it to office/warehouse use of no more than approximately 2.1 million sq ft; the denied application sought to add data center use and enlarge the permitted footprint. Six buildings totalling roughly 895,530 sq ft were proposed. Coordinates are approximate to Walt Sanders Road.
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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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.
- Project Sail, Prologis Data Center Campus · Newnan · Prologis5 mi · Permitted · 900 MW · In litigation
- Project Peach (CyrusOne Palmetto Data Center Campus) · Palmetto · CyrusOne (joint venture with North Coweta Investors)7 mi · Permitted · Opposed
- T5 @ Atlanta IV · Palmetto · T5 Data Centers8 mi · Proposed · 300 MW
- Microsoft Tyrone Campus (Project Rita) · Tyrone · Microsoft9 mi · Permitted · 96 MW · Contested
- Bridgeport Data Center Campus · Moreland · Undisclosed developer (Bridgeport Industrial Park)10 mi · Proposed
- Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta (Azure AI Superfactory) · Fayetteville · Microsoft16 mi · Operating · 1.5 GW · Contested
- Vantage Data Centers Westlake · South Fulton · Vantage Data Centers16 mi · Proposed
- Flexential Atlanta - Douglasville 1 · Douglasville · Flexential22 mi · Operating · 22.5 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Project Oak Data Center (Walt Sanders Road) in Newnan?
Yes. Organized local opposition to Project Oak Data Center (Walt Sanders Road) in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Coweta County received 121 letters of opposition from 112 individuals and none in support; the denial drew applause from a standing-room-only crowd.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Oak Data Center (Walt Sanders Road)?
No lawsuit over Project Oak Data Center (Walt Sanders Road) appears in the record we track as of September 10, 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 Oak Data Center (Walt Sanders Road) use?
0.028 million gallons a day is the reported figure on record. The application stated approximately 28,000 gallons per day.
Who operates Project Oak Data Center (Walt Sanders Road), and how big is it?
Undisclosed developer is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 255 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Oak Data Center (Walt Sanders Road)," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/project-oak-walt-sanders-road-coweta-ga.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/project-oak-walt-sanders-road-coweta-ga, retrieved September 14, 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.Project Oak data center denied by commissioners · Newnan Times-Herald · retrieved September 10, 2026
- 2.Where Coweta's five proposed data centers stand · Newnan Times-Herald · retrieved September 10, 2026
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