Amazon buys nearly 1,000 acres in Georgia for potential data center
Potential data center project joins large industrial project along I-75 corridor between Atlanta and Macon.
Credit: Courtesy Amazon Web Services / Noah Berger
An Amazon Web Services employee is shown working inside one of the company’s data centers. (Noah Berger/Courtesy of Amazon Web Services)
Amazon recently paid hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire nearly 1,000 acres between Atlanta and Macon for potential data center development.
Amazon Web Services, a division of the e-commerce giant, agreed July 25 to pay roughly $270 million to buy a 985-acre development site along I-75 in rural Lamar County, about an hour south of Atlanta. The property is part of a large industrial park called Legacy 75 Trade Center, which is proposed to eventually include 19 million square feet of development. That’s the equivalent of about a dozen Lenox Square malls.
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