Microsoft has filed a Development of Regional Impact application for a three-building data center campus on 349 acres at 0 Huffaker Road in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia. The campus, designated ATL80, will total up to 1,659,000 square feet, draw 422MW from Georgia Power, and is valued at $360 million upon completion. Microsoft projects the site will generate $35 million in annual local tax revenue, employ 150 people, and be completed by 2032. The filing follows a separate DRI application submitted one month earlier for ATL50, a two-building campus in Union City.
At 422MW and 349 acres, ATL80 would be among the larger single campus commitments Microsoft has disclosed in Georgia, where the company already has projects in Fairburn, Douglasville, Palmetto, East Point, Tyrone, and Union City. The project's projected $35 million in annual local tax revenue and 2032 completion timeline illustrate the long planning horizons and fiscal scale now associated with hyperscale data center development in secondary Georgia markets.
Microsoft filing for a new data center campus in Floyd County, Georgia is a concrete, locatable construction event involving a major hyperscaler in a US market. Named company, specific geography, and permit filing action make this immediately newsworthy.