Data Center Registry
Social Circle Technology Park
Social Circle, Newton County, Georgia
Social Circle Technology Park is a proposed data center in Social Circle, Georgia (Newton County), operated by TPA Group (developer; end tenant undisclosed). The public record puts it at announced January 2025, 317 acres, a reported $5 billion investment. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- TPA Group (developer; end tenant undisclosed)
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Social Circle, Newton County, GA
- Coordinates
- 33.6562, -83.7182
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 317 acres
- Investment
- $5 billion
- Announced
- January 2025
- Utility
- Georgia Power
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- 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
- Contested
- 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.
- April 2025ProposedSocial Circle Planning Commission recommended approval 3-2 for rezoning from agricultural to light industrial; jurisdictional dispute with Newton County ongoing Source: Data Center Dynamics
- January 2025ProposedTPA Group filed Development of Regional Impact application with Georgia Department of Community Affairs for nine-building campus near I-20 and SR-11 Source: Bisnow
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Social Circle Technology Park in Social Circle, Newton County, Georgia is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record. Social Circle City Council unanimously approved a special-use permit for SC Infrastructure LLC (June 2025).
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.
Social Circle City Council unanimously approved a special-use permit for SC Infrastructure LLC (June 2025). A jurisdictional dispute exists, Newton County does not recognize the 2008 annexation of the site into Social Circle. Newton County enacted a 30-day moratorium on new data-center applications (April 2026); Social Circle and Covington enacted their own moratoriums. The project is "projected eventually to employ 200 people" (developer, a projection). No lawsuit against this specific project.
Power and water
Georgia Power committed to serve the site via an on-site substation (June 2025); power demand not disclosed.
Project representatives were in discussions with the Newton County Water & Sewerage Authority (June 2025), which states it has capacity; no volume or cooling type disclosed.
Notes on the record
Nine buildings, 2.56 million sq ft near I-20/SR-11 intersection. Construction planned to begin 2028; first phase operational target 2031. Formerly filed as Newton County Technology Park; renamed after jurisdictional ambiguity surfaced. Coordinates corrected to Social Circle city centroid (33.6562°N, 83.7182°W); original record had 33.5912°N which is approximately 4.5 miles south of the actual city center per multiple geocoding sources.
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 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.
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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.
- Meta Newton Data Center (Stanton Springs) · Social Circle · Meta Platformsunder 1 mile · Operating · In litigation
- Serverfarm Covington Data Center (Hazelbrand Road) · Covington · Serverfarm9 mi · Under construction · Contested
- DC BLOX Atlanta East Hyperscale Data Center Campus · Conyers · DC BLOX17 mi · Under construction · 216 MW · Mixed reception
- AWS Butts County Data Center Campus · Jackson · Amazon Web Services29 mi · Proposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Social Circle Technology Park data center in Social Circle?
Yes. Social Circle Technology Park in Social Circle, Newton County, Georgia is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record. Social Circle City Council unanimously approved a special-use permit for SC Infrastructure LLC (June 2025).
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Social Circle Technology Park data center?
The reception note on this record refers to a court proceeding. Read it in full under opposition and litigation above, and check the sources at the foot of the page for the filing itself.
How much water does Social Circle Technology Park use?
No water withdrawal figure for Social Circle Technology Park is on record here. Cooling is recorded as unknown, 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 Social Circle Technology Park, and how big is it?
TPA Group (developer; end tenant undisclosed) is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 317 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Social Circle Technology Park," updated July 6, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/tpa-social-circle-technology-park-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/tpa-social-circle-technology-park-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.TPA Group Plans Massive Newton County Data Center Complex · Bisnow · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Another 2.5 million sq ft data center campus proposed outside Atlanta, Georgia · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.Social Circle officials clear way for second data center · Monroe Local News · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 4.Newton County enacts moratoriums on data centers · The Covington News · retrieved July 6, 2026
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