US data center firm DC Blox is aiming to expand its campus outside Atlanta, Georgia.
As reported in the Douglas County Sentinel last week, the Douglasville City Council approved $98 million in tax incentives for DCB Atlanta West, LLC for the construction of a colocation data center expansion.
DC Blox is the named developer and operated in the filings. According to documents, work on Building A is ongoing, with the building pad due to be delivered in August. The first 40MW phase is set to be delivered in 2026 - a delay on the previously announced 2025 date.
First announced in November 2023, the company originally planned to develop two buildings on the ATL1 West campus; the 80MW Building A and the 40MW Building B, along with a substation.
At the time the campus was said to offer 180MW across 760,000 square feet (70,605 sqm) on a 55-acre site.
DC Blox is now planning a third 80MW building (known as Building C) to the east of the current site. The campus address in the documents is listed as adjacent to 1701 North River Road, Lithia Springs.
Phase 2 of the first building is due to be delivered in 2027; Building B is due for delivery in early 2028, and Building C in early 2029. DC Blox is aiming to invest close to $2 billion in the project across all phases.
The end-user hasn’t been named but is reportedly a ‘hyperscale customer’.
Flexential’s Atlanta-Douglasville 1 and 2 data centers are listed as being planned at 1700 and 1750 N. River Roads in Douglasville.
DC Blox operates one existing facility in Atlanta in the Brookhaven area. The facility, at 6 West Druid Hills Drive, spans 3,350 sq ft (311 sqm) and has two 1MW generators. It has 6,470 sq ft (600 sqm) expansion potential.
The company operates facilities at four other locations across Birmingham and Huntsville, Alabama; and Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the landing station in Myrtle Beach. It is planning another facility in High Point, North Carolina. The company recently announced plans for a new 45MW data center campus in South Carolina's Berkeley County.
Atlanta is a major data center market. Digital Realty, CoreSite, Switch, Stack, Google, Microsoft, Flexential, H5, T5, and QTS all have or are developing data centers in the Atlanta area – largely around Lithia Springs or Douglasville.
