Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

As of end of May 2022, Fayette County Commissioners have approved for the FCDA (Fayetteville City Development Authority) to move forward with annexation-re-zoning of the 426+ acres of land to be developed as a Business Park that includes numerous data centers.

Next meeting is on June 30th, 2022 @ 6pm at Fayetteville City Hall which will be for final vote from Fayetteville City Commissioners and Mayor to approve annexation & re-zoning of proposed property below for Business Park/Data Centers.

You may not be aware Fayetteville wants to annex 100’s of acres of forested land nearby and change the already approved R-70 zoning ( 2 acre residential lot) to business park including data centers. See link to REZONING PLAN below for details.

DO NOT be fooled by the pretty images of a data center “campus.” Data centers, also euphemistically called THE CLOUD, are pitched to towns as a way to generate revenue w/o burdening schools and roads. The Fayette county data center project is the brainchild of FCDA and rich investors. The number of jobs created would be minimal because data centers are operated remotely and require a skeleton crew to manage, people like security guards and computer technicians.

The amount of development on 630 acres would be enormous and ongoing; servers must be replaced every 3 years. Imagine a steady flow of dump trucks onto Veteran’s Pkwy, Hwy. 54, Tyrone Rd., and Flat Creek Trail near 2 schools and several subdivisions.

Imagine living right next door or nearby while the construction rages on. Once completed, the centers would destroy your peace and quiet as you helplessly watched your property value plummet (while investors continued to get tax breaks). Taxes might even rise since towns are responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure to support data centers.

Protecting the wetlands as required by the EPA wouldn’t happen, as evidenced by Trilith (formerly Pinewood Studios) and Fayetteville’s history of not enforcing the rules. City and county officials, including Planning & Zoning, have NOT done their due diligence on the impact of data centers on your community and quality of life... which they repeatedly claim they respect in their mission statements and interviews. Why not? Because state government wants BIG business in GA and they don’t care how it impacts YOU. Your tax dollars are used to pay “development authorities” to court business. They make deals protected by NDA’s which aren’t shared with elected officials. Then they tell your representatives what they want annexed and rezoned. Once that’s accomplished, residents might discover that data farms or massive industrial businesses will be moving in next door. See https://bit.ly/3xqBrSq for facts about the RIVIAN deal in Morgan County, GA. (To be built close to mega META data centers.)

Please plan to attend the REZONING MEETING on 6-30-22 at 6:00pm in the Fayetteville City Hall, 210 Stonewall Ave W.

We need to voice our concerns and get FCDA and city officials to reassess their plans.

If you live in the city limits of Fayetteville and would like to play an active role in maintaining your quality of life, please email FayettevilleDataCenters@gmail.com .

Annexation and Rezoning Request in Fayette County from Fayette County Development Authority (FCDA)

Four parcels (+/- 412 acres) located within the northeast quadrant of the Highway 54 / Tyrone Road intersection (Parcel Nos. 0705 003, 0712 015, 0712 074 and 0713 020).