From Peanuts to Processors? South Georgia gets Largest Data Center Pitch yet.
Monday, March 16th, 2026
In a small southwest Georgia city that touts itself as “The Peanut Capital of the World,” a new proposal focuses on planting rows of something else: high-security computer servers.
Data center giant QTS plans to build up to 12 million square feet of server storage warehouses in Blakely, about 200 miles south of Atlanta, according to a state infrastructure review filing made public Tuesday. That expanse of floor space is more than seven Lenox Square malls or nearly twice the footprint of the Pentagon.
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