Stop Project Sail

Project Sail is a 600 megawatt proposed hyperscale data center in northwest Coweta County. Prologis - a massive public company - is the developer, partnering with Atlas, a local shell company.

When completed, it will be one of the biggest data centers in the country.  

The proposed data center will sit between Wagers Mill Road and Welcome to Sargent Road in a rural residential part of Coweta.  This area is currently zoned Rural Conservation.  Prologis, the San Fransico based company behind the project, has requested this property be re-zoned to Light Industrial to accommodate the project.

Western Coweta is one of the last rural areas in our county.  

Project Sail will destroy 831 acres of this rural area by removing forestland in order to build 9 massive warehouses.  This will have detrimental effects to wildlife in the area and forever change the landscape of this region.   

If a project of this magnitude is approved, then more projects can be approved in ANY area of our county, removing all the rural, natural areas we have left.  

Picture Coweta in 10 years, do you want to see a county full of massive warehouses or do you want to see rural areas and greenspace?  

Construction Concerns

Construction will have a major impact on the area. Our local roads were never designed to support the kind of heavy equipment and traffic it will cause. The additional construction traffic will be dangerous on the small roads, especially during school pickup and drop off when many school buses are on the roads, and at the intersections are HWY 16/27.  

Groundwater Concerns

 This facility will be impacting the Wahoo Creek watershed and the wetlands surrounding it.  Large, land-disturbing projects can cause erosion and increased flooding downstream.  Another concern is ground water contamination, as many local residents rely on wells for their household's water.  Sedimentation and pollutants can easily impact and percolate through our groundwater system.   

Data Center Water Usage

At peak operation, Prologis claims Sail  will use up to 6 million gallons of water per day. While they claim to have approvals, this massive water usage is likely to have widespread impacts to the county.

Atlas Development submitted a Development of Regional Impact (DRI) filing to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs on 12/31/24.  

The project's construction cost is estimated at $17 billion. The estimated revenue generated - which is the primary driver of this project - has been dropping since Sail was first announced. The latest projections - which we should still consider suspect - is $100MM at full buildout in 10 years. 

Prologis, a San Francisco based company, has agreed to purchase Project Sail from Atlas Development and develop the data center.  

The projected tax revenue is not all property tax revenue.  According to Coweta County Tax Commissioner Justin McMichael, "The DRI estimate could be factoring in sales tax for materials, income tax for jobs".  Therefore, the entire tax revenue may not come back to Coweta County.  Also, we should expect other costs will be passed on to all taxpayers, as has been true in states across the country.