Vantage Data Centers, a DigitalBridge Group (NYSE: DBRG) portfolio company, is expanding in Georgia. The company has filed two Developments of Regional Impact (DRI) applications with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs to build data center campuses in Fulton County, outside Atlanta, Data Centre Dynamics reported.
The first application, referred to as the Westlake project, involves building a 754,000 sq ft data center on undeveloped land in South Fulton. The project is due for completion in January 2028. The second application, known as the Stacks Road project, plans to build a nearly 697,000 sq ft data center on another parcel of undeveloped land also in Fulton County. This project is scheduled to be completed by January 2027.
Vantage currently operates eight U.S. data centers in four states with sites in Ashburn, VA; Quincy, WA; Phoenix, AZ; and, Santa Clara, CA. Now the company is building a presence in the growing Atlanta market. In August 2023, Vantage filed a DRI to develop a three-building campus totaling 1.7 million square feet of data center space in Douglasville, west of Atlanta, with a project completion date of December 2025, according to Data Centre Dynamics.
The Atlanta region is becoming a major data center market. It is strategically located in the southeastern U.S., with robust connectivity along the East coast including the Northern Virginia data center hub and the New York and Miami metro areas, a business-friendly environment, and low energy costs.
The Atlanta hub hosts a number of data center operators that include two other DigitalBridge portfolio companies, DataBank and Switch, along with privately held QTS, DC Blox, T5, CyrusOne, Flexential, EdgeConneX, and public companies Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX), Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) and American Tower (NYSE: AMT)-owned CoreSite.
By John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor
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