Georgia · Permitting
Georgia is split. Metro Atlanta counties are tightening through moratoriums and text amendments. Glynn and coastal counties just rejected restrictions. Meanwhile the PSC approved Georgia Power's data center plan over SELC objections, and the state tax incentive is on the 2027 session agenda. This page is maintained continuously against the public record.
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DeKalb public hearing
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May 12, 2026
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What is moving · as of April 22, 2026
Upcoming
May 12, 2026
DeKalb Board of Commissioners public hearing
Proposed ordinance adds data centers as a use in industrial areas and sets design, location, and supplemental review standards. Triggers the special-use permit pathway for most sites.
Upcoming
June 23, 2026
DeKalb moratorium expires
Extension of the county's moratorium on new data center applications and expansions. If the text amendment does not pass by this date, uncertainty persists into Q3.
Upcoming
Summer 2026
Georgia PSC tariff reopen
Southern Environmental Law Center challenged the PSC's approval of Georgia Power's data center plan citing inadequate customer protections. Reopen/rehearing motion pending.
Upcoming
2027 session
GA tax incentive reconsideration
Georgia is one of three states (with VA and OK) openly reconsidering its sales-tax exemption. Policy position consolidation expected in the 2027 General Assembly.
Regulatory surface
Georgia is a vertically integrated Georgia Power state. The PSC owns the tariff math; GA EPD owns the air permit; counties own the zoning. A data center cost-shift fight in any one venue echoes across the other two within a session.
GA EPD
Air Protection Branch permits, tiered attainment cap
Title V · minor-source · metro Atlanta partial attainment
GA PSC
Georgia Power large-load tariff, IRP, cost allocation
Georgia Power data center plan (approved 2026) · SELC challenge
Southern Company / SERC
Generation planning, interconnection studies
Plant Vogtle cost recovery · DC-driven capacity adds
Counties
Zoning moratoriums, special-use permits, text amendments
DeKalb · Glynn (rejected moratorium Apr 15) · Henry · Forsyth
Georgia Dept of Revenue
Data center sales and use tax exemption administration
O.C.G.A. §48-8-3(68.1) · reporting and certification
Live filings
Cliff ingests these end-to-end. Full party-by-party breakdown in the docket viewer.
DeKalb Text Amendment
Data Center Zoning Ordinance
DeKalb Board of Commissioners holds public hearing May 12, 2026. Would add data centers as a use in industrial zones with design standards and a special-use permit requirement. Current moratorium extends through June 23, 2026.
Public hearing May 12
source →GA PSC · Georgia Power
Data center plan approval and SELC challenge
Georgia PSC unanimously approved Georgia Power's data center plan. SELC publicly criticized the order for lacking customer protections and filed for reopen. Cost-allocation methodology the nucleus of the dispute.
Approved · rehearing motion pending
source →Glynn County
Moratorium rejected Apr 15, 2026
Glynn County Board of Commissioners rejected a proposed data center moratorium April 15, 2026, despite community pushback. Signals the policy divergence between metro Atlanta counties (restrictive) and coastal Georgia (permissive) through 2026.
Moratorium rejected
source →Backup generation · air
Georgia tracks federal RICE NESHAP. Metro Atlanta nonattainment zones carry tighter caps than the rest of the state. Site-specific permits are common above 25 MW aggregate.
Model your site on the de-rate calculator.
GA EPD uses a tiered permit system. Caps in metro Atlanta nonattainment zones are tighter than in the rest of the state. Site-specific permits are common above 25 MW aggregate.
GA EPD tracks the federal RICE NESHAP definition. No state-level expansion of 'emergency' to cover utility curtailment events.
Typical: 5 mo. Title V: 10 mo. PSD: 16 mo.
Metro Atlanta (15-county area)
Source: Georgia EPD Air Protection Branch. Last verified 2026-04-13; next refresh due 2026-07-13.
Why this page exists
Georgia's siting environment splits by county. A single developer looking at multiple Georgia sites needs to watch DeKalb's text amendment, Glynn's rejected moratorium, Henry's pending ordinance, and Forsyth's neighbor responses simultaneously. Each one flips the economics on a site that otherwise looks identical.
No single consultant or land-use firm tracks all of these in public. Cliff does, and publishes. Every cite is a link a Georgia attorney can pull on their own.
Georgia diagnostic
One parcel, a concept MW, and the county. We return a cited readout of your exposure across county zoning, GA EPD air, Georgia Power tariff, and the SELC / PSC docket within one week.