Macon / Griswoldville (Jones County)

Researched: 2026-08-02 · Lead source: Brockovich AI Data Center community map (1 resident report, 2026-05-24) · ZIP demographics: 56.6% Black, pop 16,923 (Census ACS 2023) · County: Jones (23.9% Black, 2020 Census); ZIP 31217 also extends into Macon-Bibb County Status: Proposed / stalled — rezoning withdrawn, ordinance rescinded once, replacement resolution under lawsuit, $25M land sale on hold

0. Snapshot

This is the sharpest example of the pattern in the entire Georgia cluster.

ZIP 31217 is 56.6% Black. Jones County is 23.9% Black. That is a 33-point gap — by far the widest of the six sites researched. And the site is not somewhere else in the county: Griswoldville Park, the 956-acre county-owned industrial park at the center of this fight, carries a 31217 mailing address. The Jones County Development Authority's own materials place Griswoldville Park on GA-57, ZIP 31217, Macon, Jones County.

So the data center land in a county that is 76% white sits in the county's majority-Black ZIP, on the Macon-Bibb line, in the corner of Jones County that is functionally East Macon.

What has happened:

• Jones County owns Griswoldville Industrial Park — 956 acres, purchased in 2006 with SPLOST (sales tax) money and built out with millions more in taxpayer-funded sewer and a fire station.
• The Jones County Development Authority (JDA) signed a letter of intent to sell the entire 956-acre site to Eagle Rock Partners LLC for $25 million.
• September 16, 2025 — commissioners approve an ordinance permitting data centers in areas zoned with specific conditions. Nine days later, on September 25, 2025, Eagle Rock Partners files its application.
• Separately, Eagle Rock Partners and Thomas & Hutton Engineering applied to rezone 600–634 acres for Crooked Creek Technology Park, a 1.8 million sq ft data center at the intersection of Highway 18 and Bethlehem Church Road (reported as roughly 3 miles southwest of the Highway 49 / Highway 18 intersection). Residents mobilized; the developers withdrew the application by email to Jones County Planning and Zoning Director Tim Pitrowski before commissioners could vote.
• November 2025 — Jones County rescinds its data center zoning ordinances because of legal issues, avoiding a legal challenge. A 90-day moratorium was adopted so the county could study impacts and write rules.
• January 16, 2026 — the Board of Commissioners adopts a resolution creating a conditional use permit process for data centers in M-2 industrial zones.
• February 16, 2026 — 17–18 Jones County residents file suit in Jones County Superior Court to overturn that resolution, alleging a flawed process, predetermination, and "illegal contract zoning" — asserting that the idea of allowing data centers originated with outreach from private developers to the Development Authority.
• March 2026 — the JDA votes to put the $25 million sale on hold over negotiation sticking points.
• As of mid-2026 — a judge has scheduled a hearing on the county's motion to dismiss, with resolution expected in 2027. JDA Chairman Eric Varnadoe: "We essentially have a lame duck property right now." JDA Attorney Kevin Brown: "We're dead in the water."

And the reporting that ties it together: records obtained by journalists show Eagle Rock Partners emailed with county officials for months without the public's knowledge — editing language for proposed legislation and planning with officials on when to vote on the amendments and rezoning decisions affecting data centers.

1. The Facility & Where It Sits

Site A — Griswoldville Industrial Park (county-owned, ZIP 31217)

Site B — Crooked Creek Technology Park (WITHDRAWN)

Megawatts, water demand, building counts, and end user for either site: Not found as of 2026-08-02.

Where it sits, and why 31217 is the story

ZIP 31217 straddles the Jones/Bibb line. It is East Macon extending northeast into the Griswoldville area of Jones County. Griswoldville Park's own promotional materials list it as 31217, Macon. That means the county-owned industrial park at the heart of this fight has a Macon mailing address and sits in the county's majority-Black ZIP.

• ZIP 31217: 56.6% Black.
• Jones County: 23.9% Black (2020 Census; population 28,347, 71.3% White).
• Gap: ~33 points. The widest in this cluster.

Jones County's population and political center is Gray, to the north — whiter, more affluent, and further from Griswoldville. Jones County voted 68.85% for Donald Trump in 2024. The county's industrial land is in its Black corner, on the Macon line.

Also check Macon-Bibb. ZIP 31217's other half is in Macon-Bibb County, which has not received a formal data center application as of the reporting located. Macon-Bibb Planning & Zoning Executive Director Jeff Ruggieri has said the county's existing zoning code is ready to handle such a development, but that Macon-Bibb is a less likely target than surrounding counties because land in Macon-Bibb is more expensive than in Monroe and Jones. That is an important sentence for a 31217 resident: the cheaper land is on the Jones County side of your ZIP, which is exactly where the pressure is.

Nearby, for context: Google finalized the purchase of 948 acres along Rumble Road near I-75 in Monroe County for $42.5 million, land that could house a future data center. Twiggs County approved a $2 billion data center project despite opposition.

2. Public Hearings & Notices

A note on the timeline. Reporting places both a September 16, 2025 enabling ordinance and an October 2025 moratorium in the record, then a November 2025 rescission. The exact sequence and dates of the moratorium relative to the ordinance could not be fully reconciled from the sources located. Sequence not fully verified as of 2026-08-02. Get the resolutions and ordinances themselves from the County Clerk (§8) — the dates on the documents settle it.

The lawsuit's core allegation is worth stating precisely. The plaintiffs allege the county improperly tailored a zoning change for data centers at Griswoldville Industrial Park, cite environmental and hydrological risks and a lack of transparency, and allege predetermination and "illegal contract zoning" — the claim being that the zoning change originated not with county planning but with private developer outreach to the Development Authority. Filed February 16, 2026 in Jones County Superior Court. Hearing on the motion to dismiss scheduled; case not expected to resolve until 2027.

Case number: Not found as of 2026-08-02. Request it from the Jones County Clerk of Superior Court.

3. Power

• Megawatt figures for either Jones County project: Not found as of 2026-08-02. For scale, the withdrawn Crooked Creek proposal was 1.8 million sq ft — comparable to campuses drawing several hundred megawatts elsewhere in Georgia.
• Serving utilities: Jones County is served by a combination of Georgia Power and EMCs (Central Georgia EMC and Tri-County EMC operate in the region). Check your own bill. Specific service arrangements for Griswoldville Park: Not found as of 2026-08-02. The JDA's Griswoldville Park info flyer (linked in §10) lists site utilities — read it.
• Statewide rules: since 2025-02-01, any Georgia Power customer expecting 100 MW or more of peak demand must operate under a customized contract, not standard rates — financial guarantees, terms up to 15 years, minimum monthly payments, and PSC review 30 days before signing.
• The PSC ordered Georgia Power to design rates so residential and small-business customers do not carry generation built mainly for data centers. PSC Public Interest Advocacy staff nonetheless found large industrial customers raise average fuel costs for all other customers by roughly 5–11% per month; a separate fuel-cost allocation investigation is open. Environmental groups sued the PSC in March 2026; in May 2026 the PSC backed a disputed Georgia Power fuel deal amid data center cost concerns. Next general rate case expected 2028.
• New substations or transmission upgrades for Griswoldville Park: Not found as of 2026-08-02.

4. Water & Drought

• The lawsuit itself is partly a water case. Plaintiffs cite environmental and hydrological concerns as grounds. That is the residents' own framing of the primary risk.
• Griswoldville Park has county-installed sewer — part of the taxpayer investment in the site since 2006. The water source and permitted capacity for the park: Not found as of 2026-08-02. The JDA's Griswoldville Park info flyer should list water and sewer capacity; request current figures from the JDA and the county.
• Jones County drinking water source, treatment capacity, and any withdrawal permits tied to the industrial park: Not found as of 2026-08-02. Macon-Bibb's water is supplied by the Macon Water Authority, which is a separate system — if you live on the Bibb side of 31217, your provider is different from your neighbors across the line. Confirm which one serves your address.
• No per-project water demand figure has ever been made public for Crooked Creek or for any Griswoldville proposal, because no project reached a hearing.
• Drought: as of the 2026-07-14 U.S. Drought Monitor reading, about 33% of Georgia (19,381 sq mi) was in active drought and a further 52% (30,877 sq mi) Abnormally Dry (D0). Earlier in 2026, Georgia's D2–D4 coverage was the highest since 2011. Jones County and Bibb County classifications change weekly — read the live map (§10).

This is the biggest documented information gap at this site. A county sold-in-principle a 956-acre industrial park for a data center campus without a public water-demand figure ever entering the record. That absence is itself a finding, and it is the first thing to demand in writing.

5. Population & Who Lives Here

• ZIP 31217: 56.6% Black, population 16,923 (Census ACS 2023, as compiled for this project). The ZIP covers East Macon (Bibb County) and extends northeast into the Griswoldville area of Jones County.
• Jones County: population 28,347; 23.9% Black, 71.3% White (2020 Census). County seat Gray. Part of the Macon–Warner Robins–Fort Valley Combined Statistical Area. Voted 68.85% for Trump in 2024.
• Macon-Bibb County: the other jurisdiction in this ZIP; majority Black, and a separate government with separate zoning and water.
• The 33-point ZIP-to-county gap is the defining demographic fact of this site. In a county that is roughly three-quarters white, the industrial land targeted for a data center campus sits in the ZIP that is majority Black, on the Macon line.
• Poverty and income figures for 31217: pull from data.census.gov (§10). Not independently verified here.

6. Money — Abatements, Incentives, Jobs

Jones County produced actual numbers, which is more than most of this cluster did. Read them carefully.

From the 20-year analysis cited in the Jones County News reporting on the JDA's data center prospect:

• Data center capital investment: $30.1 billion
• Jobs created: 450, average wage approximately $100,000
• County net revenue: $19.8 million annually (reported as "in reduced taxes")
• Combined county and school net present value: $644 million

Handle these with care. They come from a projection prepared in support of a proposed transaction, not from an audited outcome. Note the scale mismatch: $30.1 billion of investment for 450 jobs — that is roughly $67 million of capital per permanent job. For comparison, Columbus's Project Ruby projects 195 jobs on a $5.18 billion investment (~$27M per job), and Hampton's campuses have published no job figure at all. The Jones County job number is on the high side of what data centers typically deliver; ask how it was derived and how many of those 450 are permanent on-site positions versus construction or contractor roles.

The land deal:

• $25 million letter of intent from Eagle Rock Partners LLC for the full 956 acres — about $26,150 per acre.
• The county bought the land in 2006 with SPLOST money and has since put millions of additional taxpayer dollars into it, including sewer and a fire station. Residents already paid for this land once.
• The sale has been on hold since March 2026.
• JDA Chairman Eric Varnadoe: "We essentially have a lame duck property right now." JDA Attorney Kevin Brown: "We're dead in the water."

Abatement / PILOT terms: the specific abatement schedule, term, and clawback provisions were not located. Not found as of 2026-08-02. The Jones County Development Authority holds them. Georgia's statewide sales-and-use tax exemption for high-technology data center equipment applies on top of any local deal.

7. Community Reaction & News Coverage

Jones County residents beat a rezoning application, forced a county to rescind its own ordinance, and then sued when it came back. That is one of the more effective grassroots records in Georgia.

• Residents mobilized fast on the Crooked Creek proposal — 13WMAZ's headline quoted a resident saying the county was "moving extremely too fast." WGXA reported homeowners saying "Everybody needs to have a vote."
• The developers withdrew rather than face the hearing.
• The county rescinded its data center ordinances in November 2025 to avoid a legal challenge.
• 17–18 residents then filed suit on February 16, 2026 against the replacement resolution — alleging predetermination, illegal contract zoning, environmental and hydrological risk, and lack of transparency.
• The transparency story is documented, not alleged. Records show Eagle Rock Partners emailed with county officials for months outside public view, editing the language of proposed legislation and coordinating with officials on when to vote on amendments and rezonings. That reporting — "As data centers eye Middle GA, developers influence counties behind closed doors" — is the most important thing a 31217 resident can read.

Outlets covering this: 13WMAZ (Macon), WGXA, The Jones County News (jcnews.com), Macon Telegraph, Georgia Public Broadcasting, 41NBC/WMGT, Data Center Dynamics, The Macon Newsroom.

8. Find Out For Yourself

Jones County Board of Commissioners — the government that decides Griswoldville Park zoning Jones County Government Center, 166 Industrial Blvd, Gray, GA 31032 County Clerk: (478) 986-8229 · to be placed on the agenda or with questions: (478) 986-8232 Clerk's office hours: Mon–Fri, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Website: https://www.jonescountyga.org

• Board of Commissioners — https://www.jonescountyga.org/board-of-commissioners/
• Administration — https://www.jonescountyga.org/administration/
• Department directory — https://www.jonescountyga.org/county-directory/
• Boards and Authorities — https://www.jonescountyga.org/boards-and-authorities/
• Contact — https://www.jonescountyga.org/contact/

Commissioner meetings are held on Tuesdays. Anything you want distributed to the commissioners at a meeting must reach the County Clerk by the Friday afternoon before. Confirm the exact schedule with the Clerk.

Jones County Planning & Zoning 166 Industrial Blvd, Gray, GA 31032 · (478) 986-5117 Director: Tim Pitrowski (the official who received the Crooked Creek withdrawal email) https://www.jonescountyga.org/county-directory/planning-zoning/

Jones County Development Authority (JDA) — owner of the 956-acre Griswoldville Industrial Park and party to the $25M letter of intent https://developjonesco.org · Griswoldville Park page — https://developjonesco.org/griswoldville-park/ · Griswoldville Park info flyer (PDF, lists site utilities) — https://developjonesco.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GriswoldvillePark_Infoflyer_red.pdf Chairman: Eric Varnadoe · Attorney: Kevin Brown

Macon-Bibb County — the other half of ZIP 31217 https://www.maconbibb.us Planning & Zoning Executive Director: Jeff Ruggieri Macon Water Authority — https://www.maconwater.org If your 31217 address is on the Bibb side, Macon-Bibb's commission and P&Z are your government, and the Macon Water Authority is your water utility — not Jones County's.

Jones County Clerk of Superior Court — for the residents' lawsuit filed 2026-02-16 (case number not located; request it). Contact through the Jones County Government Center, 166 Industrial Blvd, Gray, GA 31032.

Statutory legal notices: Georgia Public Notice — https://www.georgiapublicnotice.com — search Jones County and Bibb County. Your ZIP crosses a county line; set alerts on both.

Utility rate proceedings: Georgia Public Service Commission — https://psc.ga.gov

Local news tip lines:

• 13WMAZ — https://www.13wmaz.com
• WGXA — https://wgxa.tv
• The Jones County News — https://www.jcnews.com
• Macon Telegraph — https://www.macon.com
• The Macon Newsroom — https://macon-newsroom.com
• 41NBC/WMGT — https://41nbc.com

Open-records requests worth filing (O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq.), to the Jones County Clerk:

1. The September 16, 2025 ordinance, the rescission action of November 2025, the moratorium resolution, and the January 16, 2026 conditional use permit resolution — full text, adoption dates, and recorded votes.
2. All correspondence between Eagle Rock Partners LLC, Thomas & Hutton Engineering, or their representatives and any county official, commissioner, or Development Authority member — this is the request that produced the "behind closed doors" reporting, and you can file it yourself.
3. The letter of intent between the JDA and Eagle Rock Partners LLC, including price, contingencies, and the March 2026 hold.
4. The 20-year fiscal analysis underlying the $30.1B / 450-job / $19.8M / $644M figures, including its author and assumptions.
5. Water and sewer capacity at Griswoldville Industrial Park: permitted withdrawal, treatment capacity, and any capacity reservation or will-serve letter issued to a data center prospect.
6. The Crooked Creek Technology Park application file and the withdrawal email.

9. If You're Thinking About Moving Here

Research only. Not legal, financial, real estate, or investment advice. Verify with §10 and your own professionals.

Know which county you are actually in. ZIP 31217 spans Jones County and Macon-Bibb County. They have different commissions, different zoning codes, different water utilities, and different politics. Before anything else, determine which one governs the parcel you are looking at. The data center pressure is on the Jones County side, where the land is cheaper — Macon-Bibb's own planning director said as much.

What is genuinely favorable right now:

• Nothing is approved and nothing is under construction. The Crooked Creek rezoning was withdrawn. The Griswoldville sale is on hold.
• Residents have won repeatedly — a withdrawal, a rescission, and an active lawsuit that has, in the JDA's own words, left the property "dead in the water."
• The lawsuit is not expected to resolve until 2027, which means a long window in which nothing can move quickly.
• The transparency problem here is documented in the public record, which makes it actionable rather than a suspicion.

What is genuinely unresolved:

• The county wants this deal. It has $25 million on the table for land it bought with your sales tax money in 2006 and has been carrying ever since. That is a strong institutional motive, and it does not go away when a lawsuit ends.
• 956 acres are already industrially zoned. As in Lowndes County, the land is ready. If the January 2026 conditional-use resolution survives the lawsuit, a project may need a conditional use permit rather than a rezoning — a lower bar with less public process.
• There is no public water number. None. For a 1.8-million-sq-ft proposal, nobody ever published a gallons-per-day figure. Residents' own lawsuit cites hydrological risk, and that risk has never been quantified in public.
• No megawatt figure either, and therefore no way to evaluate grid or rate impact.
• Regional momentum is real. Google bought 948 acres in Monroe County for $42.5M. Twiggs County approved a $2B project over objections. If Jones County stays blocked, the pressure moves next door — and the aquifer, the grid, and the roads do not respect county lines.
• The demographic pattern is stark. A county that is 76% white sited its industrial park in its majority-Black ZIP. Whatever the intent, that is where the campus would go.

Land and housing: documented data-center-driven land price movement in 31217: Not found as of 2026-08-02. The $25M-for-956-acres figure (~$26,150/acre) is the only land valuation in the public record, and it is for a fully-served industrial park, not comparable to residential acreage.

Before you buy anywhere in 31217:

1. Confirm the county. Jones or Bibb. Everything follows from that.
2. Ask Jones County Planning & Zoning (478) 986-5117 whether the parcel or any neighboring parcel is zoned M-2, and what the January 2026 conditional use resolution currently permits there.
3. Get the Griswoldville Park info flyer and ask the JDA what water and sewer capacity is actually available at the site — then compare it to what a 1.8M sq ft campus would need.
4. Set Georgia Public Notice alerts for both Jones and Bibb counties.
5. If you are on a well, get a dated baseline water test now and keep it.
6. Read the "behind closed doors" reporting. Then file your own records request for the correspondence — the county is required to produce it.

The honest summary: Jones County residents have, so far, won. But the county owns 956 acres it wants to sell for $25 million, the land is already zoned industrial, the demographic siting pattern is the most lopsided in this cluster, and the single most important number — how much water this would take — has never been made public.

10. Sources

All URLs accessed 2026-08-02 unless noted.

The project, the withdrawal, and the lawsuit

• 13WMAZ, "'Moving extremely too fast' | 600-acre data center proposed for Jones County faces early opposition" — https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/600-acre-data-center-proposed-for-jones-county-faces-early-opposition/93-25e72bf8-9eed-47ae-a351-8b7a05ee723f
• WGXA, "Developers withdraw rezoning application for Jones County data center ahead of hearing" (Crooked Creek Technology Park; Hwy 18 & Bethlehem Church Rd; Tim Pitrowski) — https://wgxa.tv/news/local/developers-withdraw-rezoning-application-jones-county-data-center-ahead-of-planning-and-zoning-hearing-thomas-hutton-engineering-eagle-rock-partners-crooked-creek-technology-park-intersection-of-highway-18-and-bethlehem-church-road-tim-pitrowski
• 13WMAZ, "Proposed Jones County data center axed from zoning board agenda after developers withdraw" — https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/gray-jones/proposed-jones-county-data-center-axed-zoning-board-agenda-developers-withdraw/93-1cb42aca-7025-4d9c-b843-b1ada7cd7465
• Data Center Dynamics, "Data center developers withdraw plans to rezone more than 600 acres in Jones County, Georgia, after local pushback" — https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/data-center-developers-withdraw-plans-to-rezone-more-than-600-acres-in-jones-county-georgia-after-local-pushback/
• Georgia Public Broadcasting, "Jones County rescinds zoning ordinances around data centers due to legal issues," 2025-11-06 — https://www.gpb.org/news/2025/11/06/jones-county-rescinds-zoning-ordinances-around-data-centers-due-legal-issues
• WGXA, "Jones County commissioners rescind data center zoning ordinances, avoiding legal challenge" — https://wgxa.tv/news/local/jones-county-commissioners-rescind-data-center-zoning-ordinances-avoiding-legal-challenge
• WGXA, "Jones County approves controversial amendment for data centers amid large disapproval" — https://wgxa.tv/newsletter-daily/jones-county-approves-controversial-amendment-for-data-centers-amid-large-disapproval
• WGXA, "'Everybody needs to have a vote' | Jones homeowners push back against data center plans" — https://wgxa.tv/news/local/everybody-needs-to-have-a-vote-jones-homeowners-push-back-against-data-center-plans-accountability-transparency-environment-datacenter-tech-park-money-taxes
• 13WMAZ, "Jones County residents sue county over data center zoning change | Here's what we know" — https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/gray-jones/jones-county-residents-sue-county-over-data-center-zoning-change/93-80f1e77d-d83e-4f43-a89d-ed2b6647ff30 (automated fetch timed out on 2026-08-02; cited from search index)
• The Jones County News, "Lawsuit stalls progress at industrial park" (JDA, $25M LOI, motion to dismiss, 20-year analysis, Varnadoe and Brown quotes) — https://www.jcnews.com/news/lawsuit-stalls-progress-industrial-park
• CitizenPortal.ai, "Jones County work session advances tiered zoning approach for data centers; Planning Commission review set for Nov. 17" — https://citizenportal.ai/articles/6716064/Jones-County/Georgia/Jones-County-work-session-advances-tiered-zoning-approach-for-data-centers-Planning-Commission-review-set-for-Nov-17
• AOL/Macon Telegraph syndication, "As data centers eye Middle GA, developers influence counties behind closed doors" — https://www.aol.com/news/data-centers-eye-middle-ga-143434895.html (returned HTTP 404 to automated fetch on 2026-08-02; cited from search index — search the headline to find the live version)
• Peach Byte Solutions, "How Community Action in Jones County Halted a Major Data Center Project" — https://peachbytesolutions.com/blog/how-community-action-in-jones-county-halted-a-major-data-center-plan

Griswoldville Industrial Park

• Jones County Development Authority, Griswoldville Park — https://developjonesco.org/griswoldville-park/
• Griswoldville Park info flyer (PDF — location, ZIP 31217, acreage, utilities) — https://developjonesco.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GriswoldvillePark_Infoflyer_red.pdf
• WGXA, "Griswoldville Park Industrial Area ready to welcome new businesses to Jones County" — https://wgxa.tv/news/local/griswoldville-park-industrial-area-ready-to-welcome-new-businesses-to-jones-county
• 41NBC/WMGT, "Griswoldville Park hopes to attract more industry in Jones County," 2017-01-25 — https://41nbc.com/2017/01/25/griswoldville-park-hopes-attract-industry-jones-county/
• HomeTownLocator, Griswoldville populated place profile, Jones County — https://georgia.hometownlocator.com/ga/jones/griswoldville.cfm
• Wikipedia, Griswoldville, Georgia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswoldville,_Georgia

Macon-Bibb & regional

• 13WMAZ, "Could data center projects be headed to Bibb County? Here's what local leaders had to say" (Jeff Ruggieri) — https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/macon/could-data-center-projects-be-headed-to-bibb-county/93-f457b9b0-95e6-4aab-b48d-4bd6f506fe80
• 13WMAZ, "This Central Georgia county is considering plans for a $1 billion data center" (Monroe County) — https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/monroe-county-man-reacts-to-new-proposed-data-center/93-677d60ad-6081-442d-a73b-7ee0c2f6fa9c
• AOL, "$2 billion data center project gets approval in Twiggs County despite oppositions" — https://www.aol.com/articles/2-billion-data-center-project-035826865.html
• Macon-Bibb County government — https://www.maconbibb.us

Power & PSC

• Georgia PSC data center fact sheet, March 2026 (PDF) — https://psc.ga.gov/site/downloads/datacenterfactsheet.pdf
• Georgia PSC media advisory, 2025-01-23 (PDF) — https://psc.ga.gov/site/assets/files/8617/media_advisory_data_centers_rule_1-23-2025.pdf
• GPB, "Georgia PSC backs disputed Georgia Power fuel deal amid data center cost concerns," 2026-05-29 — https://www.gpb.org/news/2026/05/29/georgia-psc-backs-disputed-georgia-power-fuel-deal-amid-data-center-cost-concerns
• AJC, "Environmental groups take PSC to court over Georgia Power data center expansion," 2026-03 — https://www.ajc.com/business/2026/03/environmental-groups-take-psc-to-court-over-georgia-power-data-center-expansion/

Drought & water

• U.S. Drought Monitor, Georgia — https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?GA=
• Drought.gov, Georgia — https://www.drought.gov/states/georgia
• PlantMaps, Georgia current drought conditions (2026-07-14 reading) — https://www.plantmaps.com/en/us/state/georgia/current-drought-conditions
• Georgia Water Planning, "Data Center Development from a Water Perspective" — https://waterplanning.georgia.gov/document/document/webinar-6-data-centers/download
• Macon Water Authority — https://www.maconwater.org

Demographics

• Wikipedia, Jones County, Georgia (2020 Census) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_County,_Georgia
• Wikipedia, Macon, Georgia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon,_Georgia
• U.S. Census QuickFacts, Jones County — https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/jonescountygeorgia
• data.census.gov (pull ZIP 31217 yourself) — https://data.census.gov

Contacts & meetings

• Jones County, GA — https://www.jonescountyga.org · Board of Commissioners — https://www.jonescountyga.org/board-of-commissioners/ · Planning & Zoning — https://www.jonescountyga.org/county-directory/planning-zoning/ · How Do I… — https://www.jonescountyga.org/how-do-i/
• Jones County Development Authority — https://developjonesco.org
• Georgia Public Notice — https://www.georgiapublicnotice.com
• Georgia DCA, Jones County / Gray comprehensive plan — https://dca.georgia.gov/jones-county-w-gray-city-comprehensive-plan

Lead source

• Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting map — https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/